Lead Data Engineer - Healthcare Data & Audience Applications
Zeta GlobalBase Salary
$180k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain healthcare data architecture, interface contracts, ADRs, schemas, and staged delivery plans.
- Lead ingestion and transformation patterns across Snowflake, Athena/S3, MySQL, and approved healthcare data stores.
- Design healthcare base and vertical models, governed views, semantic cubes, domain APIs, data contracts, and identity-resolution services.
- Build applications and data products for HCP and DTC audience discovery, segmentation, activation, reporting, attribution, NPI onboarding, and patient/HCP intelligence.
- Set SLOs and operational-readiness criteria, ensuring dashboards, alerts, runbooks, rollback paths, and incident ownership are established before release.
- Partner with Data Cloud, Product, and Data teams on source certification, partner-feed contracts, identity validation, requirements, and data availability SLAs.
- Implement row/member-level controls, account scoping, masking, versioning, privacy-by-design, and approved healthcare-data joins under CERT/HIPAA rules.
- Lead design and code reviews, mentor the Senior Data Engineer, and coordinate dependencies across the pod.
- Support compliance evidence, annual audits, US data-residency controls, and Start/Stop/Requires CERT decisions.
- Drive engineering practices for testing, CI/CD, code quality, observability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- 8+ years of data engineering experience with increasing technical ownership.
- Expert SQL and strong Python and Java skills, with experience in batch and streaming patterns, orchestration, testing, and schema evolution.
- Proven experience building and scaling data-intensive or distributed systems, including microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, OLTP and OLAP storage systems, data-processing frameworks, performance optimization, and scalability trade-offs.
- Experience with streaming and batch technologies such as Kafka, Spark, or Flink and workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.
- Experience with data warehouses or lakehouse platforms such as Snowflake or Databricks and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with API design using REST or gRPC, infrastructure as code, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability practices involving logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Experience working with HCP data, patient or DTC workflows, healthcare data ecosystems, identity graphs, data onboarding, reporting, or attribution systems.
- Strong understanding of HIPAA, PHI/PII, regulated data handling, lineage, data quality, access control, masking, retention, auditability, observability, and cost controls.
- Strong system design, architecture, collaboration, and technical leadership skills while remaining hands-on.
- Healthcare data-provider or identity-ecosystem experience, AdTech/MarTech or audience-platform experience, privacy-enhancing technology experience such as tokenization or clean rooms, and exposure to ML/AI-driven data products are preferred.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Employee equity.
- Employee discounts, virtual wellness classes, and pet insurance.
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About Zeta Global
At Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), we help enterprise brands and agencies Achieve the Impossible™ with superintelligent marketing. Powered by proprietary AI and trillions of real-time signals, the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) brings martech and adtech together – unifying identity, intelligence, and activation in one unified place. We enable marketers to deliver personalized experiences that drive measurable growth in the next era of marketing. At the center of this evolution is Athena by Zeta, our superintelligent conversational agent built for predictable, profitable growth. Seamlessly integrated into the ZMP, Athena helps marketers understand performance, identify opportunities, and take action in real time—surfacing insights on spend, audiences, and campaigns, recommending next best moves, and even launching and optimizing campaigns on their behalf. Behind our platform is a global team of 3,000+ employees driven by innovation, collaboration, and a shared focus on customer success. Founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, Zeta is headquartered in New York City. Learn more at www.zetaglobal.com