Lead Data Engineer - Healthcare Data & Audience Applications

The role

You will define and maintain the healthcare data architecture and lead ingestion, transformation and identity resolution pipelines. You will build applications and APIs for HCP and patient/DTC audience discovery, segmentation, activation and measurement, while meeting HIPAA and privacy requirements.

What you will do

• Define and maintain the healthcare data architecture, interface contracts, schemas and delivery plan
• Lead ingestion and transformation patterns across Snowflake, Athena/S3, MySQL and approved healthcare stores
• Design healthcare data models, governed views and domain APIs with access controls and masking
• Set SLOs, dashboards, alerts and runbooks, and ensure operational readiness before release
• Lead design and code reviews, and mentor the Senior Data Engineer
• Support compliance evidence, annual audits and US data-residency controls
• Apply privacy-by-design across systems handling PHI/PII
• Partner with Product and Data teams to turn healthcare requirements into architectures
• Drive engineering best practices in testing, CI/CD and code quality

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering experience with increasing technical ownership
• Expert SQL
• Strong Python and Java
• Experience with batch and streaming patterns, orchestration, testing and schema evolution
• Proven track record building and scaling data-intensive or distributed systems
• Experience working in regulated environments
• Strong system design and architecture skills
• Ability to lead technically while staying hands-on
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, product and data teams
• Experience designing distributed systems, including microservices and event-driven architectures
• Experience with data warehouses or lakehouse platforms such as Snowflake or Databricks
• Strong experience with AWS, GCP or Azure and infrastructure as code

Nice to have

• Experience with healthcare data providers or identity ecosystems
• Background in AdTech, MarTech or audience/data platforms
• Experience with privacy-enhancing technologies such as tokenization or clean rooms
• Exposure to ML/AI-driven data products or analytics systems

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Employee equity
• Employee discounts
• Virtual wellness classes
• Pet insurance

Before you apply

• Experience in regulated environments, with healthcare strongly preferred

About the company

Zeta Global is an AI-powered marketing cloud that helps marketers acquire, grow and retain customers using AI and consumer data. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world.