Head of Data Engineering

The role

The Head of Data Engineering will own the platform, architecture, and team powering the end-to-end data infrastructure. You will evolve existing data systems into a modern, distributed, high-throughput platform using code-driven software patterns.

What you will do

• Evolve and modernize data infrastructure using modern, code-driven software patterns and cloud-native tools.
• Hire, mentor, and lead a team of software engineers specializing in data pipelines, processing, and database internals.
• Provide infrastructure, streaming/batch frameworks, and APIs for product teams to own domain models and schemas.
• Build capabilities for ingesting, transforming, storing, and exposing data for the IDR platform, AI/ML models, and internal services.
• Employ software engineering practices including automated testing, IaC, version control, and observability.
• Implement programmatically enforced security, access controls, and privacy guardrails for sensitive data.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in software / data infrastructure with experience inheriting an existing platform architecture.
• Deep hands-on experience with modern, code first data architectures including event streaming, distributed processing, modern lakehouses, and containerized orchestration.
• Strong software engineering background.
• Ability to review system design and weigh trade-offs between speed and technical debt.

Nice to have

• Experience with real-time/event driven healthcare or financial data streams (claims, clinical data, financial transactions)
• Background in HealthTech, FinTech, or another regulated industry handling sensitive data
• Experience building data platform specifically optimized for LLMs, product engineering, and production ML pipelines
• Strong familiarity with HIPAA, PHI, zero trust security patterns in cloud environments

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including equity
• Full health, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement savings plan through 401(k)
• Flexible time off
• Opportunities for company-wide connection and events

Before you apply

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of applicable background checks, where permitted by law.

About the company

Pivotal Health is a technology platform that helps healthcare providers get paid fairly through an AI-driven platform that simplifies complex reimbursement workflows.