Sr. Staff Data Engineer
NextGen Healthcare
IndiaremotePosted 3 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- **Salary/Compensation:** Not specified
- **Required Experience Level:** 12+ years
- **Key Benefit:** Mentorship opportunities and technical leadership role
- **Notable Requirement:** Expertise in healthcare regulatory environments
Role overview
This role seeks an experienced data architect to lead the design and implementation of NextGen Healthcare's data platform, encompassing data lakehouse, streaming, and batch processing systems. The ideal candidate will drive architectural standards, establish best practices, and serve as a technical leader and mentor while ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive architecture standards for data lakehouse, streaming, and batch processing systems.
- Lead cross-team design and delivery of complex data platform initiatives.
- Establish best practices for data modeling, pipeline orchestration, and platform scalability.
- Serve as technical escalation point for high-complexity data challenges.
- Drive platform reliability, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
- Partner with security, compliance, and governance teams to ensure regulatory adherence.
- Mentor senior engineers and shape engineering best practices across teams.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic adoption.
- Perform other duties that support the overall objective of the position.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
- 12+ years of experience designing and scaling enterprise data platforms, including demonstrated leadership of cross-team initiatives.
- Knowledge of: Enterprise data platform architecture. Streaming and distributed processing systems. Infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native design. Healthcare regulatory environments.
- Skill in: Large-scale system architecture design. Strategic technical decision-making. Cross-team technical leadership. Evaluating and modernizing platform capabilities.
- Ability to: Influence engineering direction without direct authority. Lead enterprise-scale technical initiatives. Translate business strategy into scalable data architecture.
Additional details
- NextGen Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer and celebrates diversity.
- This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned as deemed appropriate.
