Molina Healthcare · 2 months ago
Lead Engineer, Big Data (AI/Azure Data Services) - REMOTE
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$107K/yr - $209K/yr
8+ years expMolina Healthcare is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to collaborate with the Data Quality and Governance team to ensure data integrity and compliance within healthcare data systems. The role involves designing scalable data architectures, implementing data governance policies, and leading a team of data engineers to enhance data quality and support AI solutions.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate with the Data Quality and Governance team to ensure data pipelines, data integrity, and compliance by defining data strategies, implementing Data Governance capabilities, creating self-service data assets, and integrating robust data quality and governance frameworks to support trustworthy AI solutions
Design scalable data architectures that support healthcare analytics and AI/ML workflows
Establish data quality standards and monitoring, manage data lineage, and ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and privacy policies
Define and enforce data quality standards, validation rules, and monitoring systems tailored to healthcare data
Collaborate with data stewards, compliance officers, and business stakeholders to resolve data integrity issues and ensure consistent data across systems
Develop and maintain metadata management, data dictionaries, and stewardship workflows
Ensure all data engineering practices align with healthcare regulations such as HIPAA, HITECH, and other privacy laws
Implement data governance policies that support secure, ethical, and compliant data usage across the organization
Automate data lineage tracking, governance documentation, and audit trails to support transparency and traceability
Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to ensure data pipelines meet model training and inference requirements
Architect and implement end-to-end AI pipelines using Agentic AI and GenAI frameworks
Support the development of trustworthy AI by ensuring the use of reliable, consented, and well-governed data to ensure AI enabled solutions around Data Governance
Partner with clinical informatics, compliance, IT, and analytics teams to align data engineering efforts with healthcare delivery goals and governance strategies
Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of quality, compliance, and innovation
Oversee project delivery and ensure alignment with enterprise data governance objectives
Qualification
Required
Data Quality & Governance Leadership
Define and enforce data quality standards, validation rules, and monitoring systems tailored to healthcare data
Collaborate with data stewards, compliance officers, and business stakeholders to resolve data integrity issues and ensure consistent data across systems
Develop and maintain metadata management, data dictionaries, and stewardship workflows
Ensure all data engineering practices align with healthcare regulations such as HIPAA, HITECH, and other privacy laws
Implement data governance policies that support secure, ethical, and compliant data usage across the organization
Design scalable data architectures that support healthcare analytics and AI/ML workflows
Automate data lineage tracking, governance documentation, and audit trails to support transparency and traceability
Establish data lifecycle policies for retention, archiving, and disposal in accordance with regulatory and operational requirements
Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to ensure data pipelines meet model training and inference requirements
Architect and implement end-to-end AI pipelines using Agentic AI and GenAI frameworks
Support the development of trustworthy AI by ensuring the use of reliable, consented, and well-governed data to ensure AI enabled solutions around Data Governance
Partner with clinical informatics, compliance, IT, and analytics teams to align data engineering efforts with healthcare delivery goals and governance strategies
Must be hands on Data quality, Data Governance tools, Databricks, Power BI
Experience in Azure Data Services (like Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, Purview, Azure Data Factory) and Power BI
Ability to lead, in solving technical issues while engaged with infrastructure and vendor support teams
Analyze current business practices, processes and procedures and identify opportunities for leveraging Microsoft Azure data & analytics PaaS services
Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of quality, compliance, and innovation
Oversee project delivery and ensure alignment with enterprise data governance objectives
Bachelor's Degree
8 + years of data management experience
Prior experience leading projects or teams
Strong experience on Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Validation & Certification, Data Quality, Metadata Management and Data Governance
Experience in Azure Data Services (like Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, Purview, Azure Data Factory) and Power BI, and in programming languages such as, PySpark/Python/SQL, etc
Preferred
Preferred experience in building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Kafka, Storm or Spark-Streaming
Experience in implementing AI based solutions in Data Governance space
Master's Degree
Experience in the healthcare industry is preferred
Benefits
Competitive benefits and compensation package
Company
Molina Healthcare
Molina Healthcare is a healthcare company that specializes in government-sponsored healthcare programs for families and individuals.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.35B2025-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $850M
2024-11-13Post Ipo Debt· $750M
2021-11-16Post Ipo Debt· $750M
Leadership Team
Dave Reynolds
Executive Vice President, Health Plans & Medicaid Chief Operating Officer
Debbie Simkins
Vice President, Office of the CIO
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