Director, Data Engineering

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April 25

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Avalere

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Healthcare Insurance • Consulting • SaaS

Avalere is a healthcare consulting firm founded in 2000, partnered with leading life sciences companies, health plans, providers, and investors. It provides objective analysis, balanced insights, and innovative, data-driven solutions to complex healthcare challenges. Avalere specializes in services such as market access, HEOR, patient-centered research, implementation science, evaluation, and due diligence. It operates as part of Avalere Health, dedicating efforts to help clients in the life sciences, health plans, providers, and private equity sectors to anticipate and adapt to industry trends. The firm offers insights into federal and state healthcare policies and aids clients in adapting to changes in the legislative and regulatory environment.

201 - 500 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. • Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. • We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity, SenseMaking allows us to transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. • We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. • The Director of Data Engineering will support our Analytics team in building a modern, scalable, and high-performance data platform. • As the Director, you will lead a team of engineers, oversee end-to-end project delivery, and ensure the reliability and scalability of our data ecosystem.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, with expertise in complex SQL, data modeling, and performance optimization across large-scale relational databases • 2+ years of experience designing and automating ETL pipelines using tools such as dbt, Airflow, and custom API integrations • Proficient in modern data platforms including Snowflake, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, and PostgreSQL • Strong understanding of data warehousing, cloud infrastructure, IAM, encryption, and governance standards • Skilled in using Git, CI/CD pipelines, and software development lifecycle practices to support reliable and scalable data deployments • Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions, with clear technical documentation and strong stakeholder communication • Hands-on experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker) and advanced proficiency in SQL and Excel • Strong communication and presentation skills, with experience delivering insights and strategy support to both technical and executive stakeholders • Familiarity with marketing analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Campaign Manager, Facebook Ads) and associated data structures • Industry experience with healthcare data and understanding of related compliance frameworks including HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA • Experience working in hybrid Agile/Waterfall environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams including data science, QA, and business analysts • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan • private medical insurance • comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives • compelling time-off policy • plus many other excellent employee benefits.