Director of Engineering, Data

The role

This is a hands-on leadership role to build the backbone of how the company collects, models, governs, and uses data. You will clean up ETL pipelines and consolidate logic before defining long-term data strategy and growing the data function.

What you will do

• Clean up existing ETL across Fivetran and Mozart into Snowflake
• Collapse duplicated models, metrics, and transformation logic
• Map collected data against business needs and close source-data gaps
• Stand up data-quality testing, monitoring, and alerting
• Define a canonical metric and semantic layer
• Shape how the company collects, models, governs, and uses data
• Advise leadership on tooling, investments, and build-versus-buy decisions
• Own data governance, access control, and PHI and PII handling
• Enable trustworthy self-serve analytics
• Hire, mentor, and lead the data engineering function

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering
• Direct, recent ownership of production ETL and warehouse modeling
• Strong SQL
• Cloud warehouse
• ETL tooling
• Transformation and modeling layer
• Proven track record of turning brittle, duplicated, or undocumented pipelines into reliable, documented, trusted data
• Strong data modeling fundamentals
• Experience designing data governance and handling sensitive data
• Comfort around security and access control in a regulated environment

Nice to have

• Healthcare or HIPAA experience
• Familiarity with EMR data (FHIR) and claims
• Experience with D2C growth metrics
• Experience with Amplitude and product event taxonomy
• Enabling AI or LLM-assisted analytics such as semantic layers, metric catalogs, or Claude skills
• Experience building and managing a data team at a high-growth startup (Series B to D)

Benefits

• Equity
• Professional development & employee learning programs
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Generous paid time off
• Additional wellness and professional development perks
• Unlimited PTO
• 11 company holidays/ or L1 offerings
• Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long- and short-term disability coverage
• Annual employee wellness stipend
• 401(k) plan
• Parental leave & family planning support benefits

About the company

Allara is a comprehensive women’s health provider that specializes in expert, longitudinal care that supports women through every life stage. It is one of the fastest-growing women’s health platforms in the U.S.