The Role
The Director of Data Engineering will lead the engineering team in building a scalable data platform, ensuring data quality and compliance, while collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance analytics capabilities.
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About Avalere Health
United by one profound purpose: to reach EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE. At Avalere Health, we ensure every patient is identified, treated, supported, and cared for. Equally. Our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing teams come together – powerfully and intentionally – to forge unconventional connections, building a future where healthcare is not a barrier and no patient is left behind.
Achieving our mission starts with providing enriching, purpose-driven careers for our team that empower them to make a tangible impact on patient lives. We are committed to creating a culture where our employees are empowered to bring their whole selves to work and tap into the power of diverse backgrounds and skillsets to play a part in making a difference for every patient, everywhere.
Our flexible approach to working allows our global teams to decide where they want to work, whether in-office or at home based on team and client need. Major city hubs in London, Manchester, Washington, D.C., and New York, and smaller offices globally, serve as collaboration hubs allowing our teams to come together when it matters. Homeworkers are equally supported, with dedicated social opportunities and resources.
Our inclusive culture is at the heart of everything we do. We proudly support our employees in bringing their whole selves to work with our six Employee Network Groups – Diverse Ability, Family, Gender, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, and Race/Ethnicity. These groups provide opportunities to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and to connect, learn, and socialise through regular meetings and programs of activity. We are an accredited Fertility Friendly employer with our Fertility Policy, enhanced parental leave, and culture of flexibility ensuring every employee feels supported across their family planning journey and can work in a way that suits their family’s needs.
We are deeply invested in supporting professional growth for our employees through day-to-day career experiences, access to thousands of on-demand training sessions, regular career conversations, and the opportunity for global, cross-capability career moves.
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. If you'd like to apply and need adjustments made, you can let us know in your application.
About the role
The Director of Data Engineering plays a key leadership role in building a modern, scalable, high-performance data platform to power Avalere Health’s analytics and marketing capabilities. You’ll oversee the architecture and development of robust data pipelines and integrations across platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Snowflake, while supporting key business initiatives across Media, Analytics, CRM, and Martech platforms. You will manage a team of data engineers, guide platform architecture, and lead cross-functional delivery that enables marketing activation, media insights, CRM optimization, and Next Best Engagement. This role is both strategic and hands-on—requiring a deep understanding of media, marketing tech, and scalable data systems.
3–5 years of media or agency-side experience is essential to success in this role, as is familiarity with CRM and Martech platform integrations to support marketing personalization and automation efforts.
What you'll do
- Application Support & Platform Leadership:
- Lead application support services for data analytics platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, and others
- Manage internal engineering teams and partner with external vendors to ensure operational excellence and platform reliability
- Oversee day-to-day support operations, break/fix routines, and performance monitoring of analytics tools and data platforms
- Strategic Analytics Partnership:
- Work in close collaboration with business leadership to define and execute the analytics agenda
- Support continuous quality improvement initiatives by developing and monitoring performance metrics
- Data Architecture & Engineering:
- Lead the design and implementation of data architecture layers including ingestion, transformation, unification, and consumption
- Support the development of analytics database structures, including tables, views, and schemas, ensuring scalability and performance
- Execute efficient, well-documented SQL development for analytics and BI applications
- Data Management & Analysis:
- Gather, assess, and interpret data from transactional databases, operational data stores, external systems, and reporting environments
- Maintain high standards of data quality, identifying and resolving data integrity issues in collaboration with IT and QA teams
- Collaboration & Documentation:
- Work cross-functionally with data scientists, business analysts, project managers, media operations, and QA teams to deliver holistic data solutions
- Create and maintain thorough technical documentation of all data engineering processes and solutions
- Actively contribute to code reviews and promote best practices in data engineering and development
- Innovation & Continuous Improvement:
- Identify opportunities for automation, efficiency, sustainability, and standardization in data workflows
- Stay current with industry trends and lead the evaluation and adoption of new technologies and frameworks.
- Support the implementation of data governance, compliance, and security best practices (HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA)
- Risk Management & Quality Assurance:
- Collaborate with QA teams to ensure data accuracy, robust test coverage, and ongoing quality improvements.
- Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and implement solutions to support data engineering objectives
About you
- 10+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, including complex SQL and scalable architecture design
- 2+ years building ETL/ELT pipelines using tools like dbt, Airflow, and custom API integrations
- 5+ years of experience with a background leading teams
- Strong experience with Snowflake, GCP (BigQuery), and PostgreSQL
- Working knowledge of CRM and Martech platform integrations, including audience segmentation and personalization workflows (e.g., Salesforce, Adobe Experience Platform, HubSpot, etc.)
- 3–5 years of experience working within media, marketing, or advertising agency environments
- Proficient in using Git, CI/CD pipelines, and development best practices
- Experience in data modeling, data warehousing, and large-scale architecture
- Deep familiarity with data governance, cloud security, and IAM frameworks
- Advanced skill in SQL and data visualization platforms (Looker, Tableau, Power BI)
- Clear communicator with experience engaging technical and business stakeholders
- Familiarity with marketing and media platforms (e.g., Google Analytics, DV360, Campaign Manager, Meta Ads)
- Strong understanding of healthcare data compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA)
- Experience in Agile/Waterfall hybrid teams and enterprise software delivery
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
What we can offer
You will receive a 401K plan with an employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested), as well as life insurance, disability coverage, and medical, dental, and vision plans for peace of mind. Enjoy flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote work, along with the option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year. We provide 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day, recognise 9 public holidays, along with gifted end-of-year holidays and an early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August.
Access free counselling through our employee assistance program and personalized health support. Our enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies provide support across every stage of your family-planning journey. You can also benefit from continuous opportunities to professionally develop with on-demand training, support, and global mobility opportunities across the business.
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Top Skills
Airflow
Ci/Cd
Dbt
GCP
Google Cloud Platform
Looker
Postgres
Power BI
Snowflake
SQL
Tableau
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The Company
What We Do
Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries. Our team of 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines—Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology—to create the connections that make better health happen.
We partner with our clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.
