Lead Data Engineer
Stanford Health Care, California, MO, United States
1.0 FTE Full time Day – 08 Hour R2551453 Hybrid 108480039 TDS Data Science Innovation Technology & Digital Solutions PALO ALTO, 1830 Embarcadero, California
Day – 08 Hour (United States of America)
The Lead Data Engineer will be part of a team building Stanford Health Care's (SHC) solutions incorporating Artificial Intelligence including providing health care solutions in the areas of patient care, medical research and administrative services. This group is designed to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging machine learning (ML)-based innovations in data science into healthcare and will partner closely with individuals across clinical specialties and operations areas to deploy algorithms that can lead to better patient outcomes. The role will be responsible for building, scaling and maintaining the compute frameworks, analysis tooling, model implementations and agentic solutions that form our core AI platform.
What You Will Do
Build end-to-end data pipelines and infrastructure for ML models used by the Data Science team and others at SHC.
Understand the requirements of data processing and analysis pipelines and make appropriate technical design and interface decisions. This will involve training, developing and validating researcher-built or vendor provided machine learning algorithms on hospital data as well as working with other members of the data science team.
Understand data flows among the SHC applications and use this knowledge to make recommendations and design decisions for languages, tools, and platforms used in software and data projects.
Troubleshoot and debug environment and infrastructure problems found in production and non-production environments for projects by the Data Science Team.
Work with other groups at SHC and the Technology and Digital Solutions (TDS) group to ensure servers and system maintenance based on updates, system requirements, data usage, and security requirements.
Education Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related, or equivalent working experience.
Experience Qualifications
5+ years experience in building data infrastructure for analytics teams, including ability to write code in SQL, R, or Python for processing large datasets in distributed cloud environments.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Experience with cloud deployment strategies and CI/CD.
Experience building and working with data infrastructure in a SaaS environment.
Experience overseeing, developing or implementing machine learning operations (MLOps) processes.
Experience mentoring junior engineers and enforcing best practices around code quality.
Knowledge of multiple programming languages, commitment to choosing languages based on project-specific requirements, and willingness to learn new programming languages as necessary.
Knowledge of resource management and automation approaches such as workflow runners.
Collaborative mentality and excitement for iterative design working closely with the Data Science team.
Physical Demands and Work Conditions
Category II – Tasks that involve no exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues, but employment may require performing unplanned Category I tasks.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non‑discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.
Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $94.35 - $125.03 per hour. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.
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Day – 08 Hour (United States of America)
The Lead Data Engineer will be part of a team building Stanford Health Care's (SHC) solutions incorporating Artificial Intelligence including providing health care solutions in the areas of patient care, medical research and administrative services. This group is designed to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging machine learning (ML)-based innovations in data science into healthcare and will partner closely with individuals across clinical specialties and operations areas to deploy algorithms that can lead to better patient outcomes. The role will be responsible for building, scaling and maintaining the compute frameworks, analysis tooling, model implementations and agentic solutions that form our core AI platform.
What You Will Do
Build end-to-end data pipelines and infrastructure for ML models used by the Data Science team and others at SHC.
Understand the requirements of data processing and analysis pipelines and make appropriate technical design and interface decisions. This will involve training, developing and validating researcher-built or vendor provided machine learning algorithms on hospital data as well as working with other members of the data science team.
Understand data flows among the SHC applications and use this knowledge to make recommendations and design decisions for languages, tools, and platforms used in software and data projects.
Troubleshoot and debug environment and infrastructure problems found in production and non-production environments for projects by the Data Science Team.
Work with other groups at SHC and the Technology and Digital Solutions (TDS) group to ensure servers and system maintenance based on updates, system requirements, data usage, and security requirements.
Education Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related, or equivalent working experience.
Experience Qualifications
5+ years experience in building data infrastructure for analytics teams, including ability to write code in SQL, R, or Python for processing large datasets in distributed cloud environments.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Experience with cloud deployment strategies and CI/CD.
Experience building and working with data infrastructure in a SaaS environment.
Experience overseeing, developing or implementing machine learning operations (MLOps) processes.
Experience mentoring junior engineers and enforcing best practices around code quality.
Knowledge of multiple programming languages, commitment to choosing languages based on project-specific requirements, and willingness to learn new programming languages as necessary.
Knowledge of resource management and automation approaches such as workflow runners.
Collaborative mentality and excitement for iterative design working closely with the Data Science team.
Physical Demands and Work Conditions
Category II – Tasks that involve no exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues, but employment may require performing unplanned Category I tasks.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non‑discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.
Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $94.35 - $125.03 per hour. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.
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