AVP, Data Engineering

Thank you for considering a career at Ensemble!

Ensemble is a leading provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management solutions for health systems, including hospitals and affiliated physician groups. They offer end-to-end revenue cycle solutions as well as a comprehensive suite of point solutions to clients across the country.

Ensemble keeps communities healthy by keeping hospitals healthy. We recognize that healthcare requires a human touch, and we believe that every touch should be meaningful. This is why our people are the most important part of who we are. By empowering them to challenge the status quo, we know they will be the difference!

O.N.E Purpose:

• Customer Obsession: Consistently provide exceptional experiences for our clients, patients, and colleagues by understanding their needs and exceeding their expectations.

• Embracing New Ideas: Continuously innovate by embracing emerging technology and fostering a culture of creativity and experimentation.

• Striving for Excellence: Execute at a high level by demonstrating our “Best in KLAS” Ensemble Difference Principles and consistently delivering outstanding results.

The Opportunity:

As the AVP of Data Engineering, you will own and evolve Ensemble’s enterprise data platform and data product strategy to enable analytics at scale and establish a strong foundation for AI‑driven capabilities across the organization.

You will lead the design and execution of a cloud‑native data platform built on Azure and Databricks, enabling trusted, governed, and reusable data products that accelerate insight generation, operational automation, and emerging AI use cases.

This role is responsible for translating business and product strategy into scalable data platform capabilities — ensuring data is AI‑ready, secure, observable, cost‑efficient, and consumable by analytics, product, and machine learning teams. Success in this role will be measured by platform adoption, data trust, delivery velocity, and the organization’s readiness to operationalize AI.

Essential Job Functions

Customer Obsession: Consistently provide exceptional experiences for our clients, patients, and colleagues by understanding their needs and exceeding their expectations.

Embracing New Ideas: Continuously innovate by embracing emerging technology and fostering a culture of creativity and experimentation.

Striving for Excellence: Execute at a high level by demonstrating our “Best in KLAS” Ensemble Difference Principles and consistently delivering outstanding results.

AI & Advanced Analytics Enablement

• Establish and evolve a data platform architecture that enables AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics workloads, including feature readiness, training data quality, lineage, and observability.
• Partner with Data Science, Analytics, Product, and Cloud teams to ensure data platforms support model development, deployment, and monitoring without creating operational or governance risk.
• Define and enforce AI‑ready data standards, including data quality thresholds, metadata, schema stability, timeliness, and explainability requirements.

Data Products & Platform Enablement

• Treat enterprise datasets as data products, with clear ownership, quality guarantees, documentation, and usage metrics.
• Build and evangelize a reusable data product layer that enables self‑service analytics and accelerates downstream innovation.
• Define platform‑level KPIs (adoption, reliability, cost efficiency, time‑to‑data) and continuously improve based on measurable outcomes.

Employment Qualifications

• 10+ years of leadership and technology related experience
• Masters Degree or Equivalent Experience
• 10+ years of coding experience with ANSI SQL.
• 3+ years working with big data technologies including but not limited to Databricks, SPARK, Azure, Power BI, with a willingness and ability to learn new ones
• Excellent understanding of engineering fundamentals: testing automation, code reviews, telemetry, iterative delivery and DevOps
• Experience with polyglot storage architectures including relational, columnar, key-value, graph or equivalent
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical, globally distributed audiences
• Solid foundations in formal architecture, design patterns and best practices
• Experience designing data platforms that support AI/ML, advanced analytics, or intelligent automation workloads.
• Deep experience with Azure cloud services and Databricks, including Spark‑based data engineering patterns.
• Experience operating data platforms in regulated or healthcare environments (HIPAA, PHI, data privacy) strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to translate business and clinical domain needs into scalable data solutions.

• This is a remote position; however, candidates must be willing and able to travel to and work onsite at client, temporary, or corporate office locations as business needs require.

• This position pays between $163,600-245,400 based on experience.

This posting addresses s state specific requirements to provide pay transparency.  Compensation decisions consider many job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location; knowledge; skills; relevant experience; education; licensure; internal equity; time in position.  A candidate entry rate of pay does not typically fall at the minimum or maximum of the role’s range

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Join an award-winning company

Five-time winner of “Best in KLAS” 2020-2022, 2024-2025

Black Book Research's Top Revenue Cycle Management Outsourcing Solution 2021-2024

22 Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) MAP Awards for High Performance in Revenue Cycle 2019-2024

Leader in Everest Group's RCM Operations PEAK Matrix Assessment 2024

Clarivate Healthcare Business Insights (HBI) Revenue Cycle Awards for strong performance 2020, 2022-2023

Energage Top Workplaces USA 2022-2024

Fortune Media Best Workplaces in Healthcare 2024

Monster Top Workplace for Remote Work 2024

Great Place to Work certified 2023-2024

• Innovation

• Work-Life Flexibility

• Leadership

• Purpose + Values

Bottom line, we believe in empowering people and giving them the tools and resources needed to thrive. A few of those include:

• Associate Benefits –  We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial health of you and your family, including healthcare, time off, retirement, and well-being programs. 

• Our Culture – Ensemble is a place where associates can do their best work and be their best selves. We put people first, last and always. Our culture is rooted in collaboration, growth, and innovation.  

• Growth – We invest in your professional development. Each associate will earn a professional certification relevant to their field and can obtain tuition reimbursement. 

• Recognition – We offer quarterly and annual incentive programs for all employees who go beyond and keep raising the bar for themselves and the company. 

Ensemble is an equal employment opportunity employer. It is our policy not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.  Ensemble also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.

Ensemble provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law. If you require accommodation in the application process, please contact [email protected].

This posting addresses state specific requirements to provide pay transparency.  Compensation decisions consider many job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location; knowledge; skills; relevant experience; education; licensure; internal equity; time in position.  A candidate entry rate of pay does not typically fall at the minimum or maximum of the role’s range.

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