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Premise Health serves large organizations and their people with exceptional healthcare. The result? Better experiences, better health, and better value, all while helping organizations lower their healthcare costs. 

Premise's mission is to help people get, stay, and be well. Come join us and see for yourself why amazing health starts with amazing healthcare. For more information, visit www.jobs.premisehealth.com. 

The Data Engineering Director will shape enterprise data engineering strategy, define platform modernization roadmaps, and serve as a recognized technical leader across the organization. This role sets best practices, leads multi-region scale and disaster recovery initiatives, and guides enterprise portfolio decisions while mentoring senior data engineers and influencing broader technical direction. 

This is a Full Time, hybrid, Director, Data Engineering role located in Brentwood, TN.

What You'll Do

 Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Shape enterprise data engineering strategy and platform modernization roadmaps 
• Define future-state platform architecture including multi-region scale, high availability, and disaster recovery 
• Lead platform vendor selection and tool decisions aligned to enterprise objectives 
• Articulate point-of-view on value and applicability of emerging methodologies and technologies 

Enterprise Standards & Governance 

• Set data engineering best practices and standards across the organization 
• Lead development of reference architectures and implementation patterns 
• Maintain enterprise knowledge base and technical documentation 
• Guide M&A platform integration playbooks and strategies 

Cross-Functional Influence 

• Work beyond local boundaries to influence broader enterprise technical direction 
• Guide enterprise portfolio decisions in partnership with Architecture and leadership 
• Advise stakeholders on trade-offs between cost, performance, reliability, and time-to-delivery 
• Communicate exec-level technical narratives on platform evolution and investment

Mentorship & Technical Excellence 

• Mentor senior data engineers and build communities of practice 
• Quickly develop SME-level understanding of emerging methodologies and technologies 
• Demonstrate a track record of technical innovation 
• Maintain currency in technology and recognized as technical leader across the enterprise

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred 
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering with demonstrated enterprise influence 
• Deep expertise in cloud data platforms, Databricks, Spark, and lakehouse architecture 
• Experience with multi-region deployment, high availability, and disaster recovery design 
• Track record of platform modernization and vendor/tool selection decisions 
• Recognized as technical leader across multiple parts of the enterprise 
• Experience with M&A technical integration and platform consolidation 
• Deep understanding of streaming architectures (Kafka, Spark Streaming) 
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and DataOps practices 
• Background in healthcare data platforms and compliance requirements (HIPAA) 
• Track record of technical innovation and implementing novel engineering approaches 
• Experience publishing internal standards or external technical content 

Work-life balance is at the foundation of how decisions are made and where Premise is headed. We can only help people get, stay, and be well if we do the same for ourselves. In addition to competitive pay, Premise offers full-time team members benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, a 401(k) program with company match, paid holidays and vacation time, a company-sponsored wellness program, EAP, access to virtual primary care and virtual behavioral health at no cost for team members and their dependents. Additional benefits can be viewed here: https://jobs.premisehealth.com/benefits.

Premise is an equal opportunity employer; we value inclusion and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy and related conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.