Staff Engineer
Vizient, Inc · Edina, MN · 3 wk ago
Engineering$118k–$206k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of a Palantir Foundry-based data product, with primary ownership of the enterprise ontology, curated data assets, and analytics engineering framework.
- Define and evolve the enterprise ontology using EHR, ERP, and related enterprise data sources, translating complex healthcare workflows into reusable object types, relationships, semantic models, and governed business concepts.
- Model and maintain core clinical, operational, financial, and administrative entities and relationships to support scalable analytics, reporting, operational workflows, and AI-enabled use cases.
- Establish and govern architecture standards, ontology design patterns, data contracts, engineering practices, and semantic modeling frameworks that promote consistency, scalability, maintainability, and reuse across the platform.
- Design, implement, and optimize scalable PySpark transformations, data pipelines, derived metrics, KPIs, and analytical datasets that support enterprise reporting and product capabilities.
- Drive data quality, governance, security, privacy, lineage, and auditability practices to ensure trusted and compliant use of healthcare data.
- Lead architectural decision-making and define technical strategies for platform scalability, reliability, performance, observability, and long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate with product, analytics, operations, data governance, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into durable technical solutions and prioritize platform investments.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, platform capabilities, and industry trends to identify opportunities that improve engineering productivity, solution quality, analytics capabilities, and future product innovation.
- Mentor engineers and analytics professionals while championing modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development and agentic engineering approaches, to elevate technical excellence across teams.
Qualifications
- Relevant degree preferred.
- 7 or more years of relevant experience required.
- Strong technical expertise in data engineering, analytics engineering, software engineering, data architecture, or platform engineering, including designing and delivering large-scale distributed data platforms required.
- Strong understanding of agentic coding, AI-assisted development, and emerging AI technologies within modern software engineering and analytics workflows required.
- Experience with PySpark, Spark, Python, SQL, distributed data processing, and development of production-grade data products, analytical datasets, and reusable transformation frameworks required.
- Strong understanding of data modeling and semantic architecture concepts, including entity relationship modeling, dimensional modeling, ontology development, domain-driven design, and enterprise data modeling required.
- Experience implementing modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, version control, monitoring, documentation, and release management required.
- Experience designing scalable, secure, reliable, and governed data platforms, including data quality frameworks, lineage, observability, access controls, privacy, and regulatory compliance requirements required.
- Proven ability to lead architectural decision-making, establish engineering standards, communicate technical tradeoffs, and influence technical direction across multiple teams and stakeholders required.
- Ability to translate complex healthcare, operational, financial, and business workflows into durable technical models that support reporting, analytics, AI-enabled workflows, and future product capabilities required.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences required.
- Experience mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement required.
- Hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, including ontology development, datasets, transforms, Code Repositories, object types, link types, functions, actions, security, and application enablement highly preferred.
- Experience with healthcare data domains and platforms, including EHR, ERP, FHIR, HL7, Epic, Oracle Health, claims, provider, financial, operational, and clinical data preferred.
- Experience designing enterprise semantic layers, governed metric frameworks, certified datasets, enterprise reporting foundations, or large-scale ontology implementations preferred.
Pay
Estimated Hiring Range: $117,600.00 to $206,000.00