Premise Health is Different on Purpose

Premise Health serves large organizations and their people with exceptional healthcare. The result? Better experiences, better health, and better value, all while helping organizations lower their healthcare costs. 

Premise's mission is to help people get, stay, and be well. Come join us and see for yourself why amazing health starts with amazing healthcare. For more information, visit www.jobs.premisehealth.com. 

The VP of Data Engineering will lead Premise's data engineering function, owning the bronze layer of the medallion architecture and the underlying data platform infrastructure. This leader will develop and execute functional strategy for data engineering, build a high-performing team, and ensure reliable, scalable, and secure data delivery that powers enterprise analytics and decision-making.

This is a Full Time, hybrid, Data Engineering Vice President role located in Brentwood, TN.

What You'll Do

Develop and Execute Data Engineering Strategy

• Develop functional strategy aligned with enterprise data and analytics objectives, defining a 3-5 year roadmap
• Analyze market trends in data platforms and cloud infrastructure to inform strategic direction and platform investments
• Allocate resources across teams and initiatives to maximize platform reliability, scalability, and value creation

Own the Bronze Layer and Data Platform Infrastructure

• Lead design, development, and maintenance of the bronze layer, ingesting raw data from source systems
• Oversee platform architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization
• Establish standards for data ingestion (batch, streaming, real-time) and implement monitoring for pipeline health
• Drive adoption and optimization of Databricks, Fivetran, and other core platform technologies

Partner Across the Data Organization

• Collaborate with Analytics Engineering to ensure seamless handoff from bronze to silver layer
• Partner with Data Science to provide infrastructure support for ML pipelines and model deployment
• Align with IT and Security teams to ensure compliance, disaster recovery, and operational resilience
• Serve as domain subject matter expert, translating technical concepts for executive audiences

Lead and Develop the Data Engineering Team

• Build, mentor, and retain a high-performing team of data engineers, platform engineers, and DataOps specialists
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, reliability, and continuous improvement
• Establish policies, standards, and best practices including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code

Drive Operational Excellence

• Establish and maintain SLAs for data pipeline reliability, latency, and availability
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes for platform operations
• Maintain full accountability for department budget, vendor relationships, and platform contracts

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field preferred
• 15+ years of experience in data engineering or data architecture, with at least 7 years in senior leadership
• Deep expertise in data pipeline development, ETL/ELT patterns, and data integration
• Strong experience with Databricks and supporting technologies (Spark, Delta Lake)
• Experience with data ingestion tools such as Fivetran or similar
• Strong understanding of data security and compliance requirements in healthcare (HIPAA)
• Healthcare industry experience strongly preferred
• Experience building and scaling data engineering functions in transformation environments
• Deep understanding of medallion architecture patterns and data lakehouse concepts
• Experience with DataOps practices, CI/CD for data pipelines, and automated testing frameworks
• Knowledge of streaming data technologies (Kafka, Spark Streaming) for real-time use cases
• Experience with healthcare data sources including EHR/EMR systems, claims, and eligibility files
• Experience with data platform cost optimization and FinOps practices

Work-life balance is at the foundation of how decisions are made and where Premise is headed. We can only help people get, stay, and be well if we do the same for ourselves. In addition to competitive pay, Premise offers full-time team members benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, a 401(k) program with company match, paid holidays and vacation time, a company-sponsored wellness program, EAP, access to virtual primary care and virtual behavioral health at no cost for team members and their dependents. Additional benefits can be viewed here: https://jobs.premisehealth.com/benefits.

Premise is an equal opportunity employer; we value inclusion and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy and related conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.