Principal Data Engineer
Ochsner Health3 days ago
New Orleans, LA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design enterprise-scale data platforms and solutions using Azure, AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks.
- Lead data and analytics modernization initiatives, simplifying integration patterns and eliminating redundancy.
- Design ETL/ELT processes, streaming data pipelines, workflow orchestration, cloud databases, advanced SQL solutions, and complex data models.
- Ensure data quality, accessibility, security, governance, compliance, and role-based access controls.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI/ML capabilities, to enhance data products and business value.
- Shape data strategy, roadmaps, technical standards, and high-impact solutions with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Communicate and negotiate technical direction with executive leadership and business audiences.
- Mentor engineering teams and serve as a subject matter expert across the organization.
- Drive performance optimization, engineering excellence, process improvement, and resilient, secure, highly available solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required; a master’s degree is preferred.
- 10+ years of data engineering or related technical experience is required.
- Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise data engineering solutions using cloud architectures and modern data platforms.
- Strong experience with infrastructure security, role-based access controls, data governance, cross-system integration, and engineering standards.
- Expertise in ETL/ELT design, streaming data pipelines, workflow orchestration, DevOps practices, cloud databases, advanced SQL, data modeling, medallion architectures, and complex data model design.
- Ability to influence executive stakeholders, translate complex technical concepts, provide thought leadership, and mentor engineering talent.
- Preferred experience includes 10+ years in platform engineering and FinOps, data analytics, Tableau, Power BI, Sigma, data products, semantic models, and AI agents.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, strategic planning, and technical evaluation skills.
- Ability to comply with applicable laws, accreditation standards, regulatory requirements, organizational policies, privacy standards, and safety requirements.
Benefits
- The role is based in a healthcare setting and may involve occupational exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste depending on job duties.
- Remote-work eligibility depends on the position; residents working from Colorado, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C. are not eligible for remote positions.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities.
About Ochsner Health
Ochsner Health is a nonprofit healthcare system headquartered in New Orleans that delivers hospital, clinic, and virtual care across Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South. It operates more than 45 hospitals and over 370 health and urgent care centers, and also runs research and medical education programs. Founded in 1942, Ochsner’s revenue comes primarily from patient care and related services, with growing digital health offerings for chronic disease management and remote monitoring.