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Responsibilities:
Required Responsibilities:
- Define and execute enterprise data platform strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmaps with a focus on Azure Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server, and related Azure data technologies.
- Lead platform engineering and administration teams to deliver reliable, secure, scalable, observable, and high-performing enterprise data services.
- Drive Azure Databricks platform engineering, including platform architecture, administration, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, MLflow, access controls, workload management, automation, observability, performance, and cost optimization.
- Establish Platform-as-a-Product practices, reusable engineering patterns, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD automation, and self-service capabilities that improve engineering productivity and platform adoption.
- Lead modernization of enterprise data platforms and migration of appropriate workloads to Azure and Lakehouse architectures while strengthening resilience, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
- Establish platform governance, security, data classification, lineage, auditing, access management, and compliance controls in collaboration with Data Governance, Security, IAM, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
- Enable scalable platform capabilities for analytics, data products, machine learning, AI, and operational reporting.
- Establish service-level objectives, operational metrics, monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement practices.
- Manage platform investments, budgets, capacity forecasts, vendor relationships, licensing, and FinOps practices to optimize technology consumption and operational costs.
- Develop and mentor engineering leaders and technical teams while fostering collaboration, automation, innovation, and operational excellence.
Preferred Responsibilities:
- Lead evaluation and adoption of emerging data, AI, and cloud technologies through proofs of concept and strategic platform investments.
- Advance platform standardization and consolidation opportunities that reduce technical complexity and improve scalability.
- Partner with Data Engineering and Data Science teams to accelerate delivery of enterprise data products, machine learning, and AI capabilities.
Estimated Hiring Range:
At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $135,200.00 to $236,600.00.This position is also incentive eligible.
Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:
http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers
Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.
Skills Required
- Define and execute enterprise data platform strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmaps using Azure Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server, and Azure data technologies
- Lead platform engineering and administration teams delivering reliable, secure, scalable, observable, high-performing enterprise data services
- Experience with Azure Databricks platform architecture, administration, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, MLflow, access controls, workload management, automation, observability, performance, and cost optimization
- Establish Platform-as-a-Product practices, reusable engineering patterns, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD automation, and self-service capabilities
- Lead enterprise data platform modernization and migration to Azure and Lakehouse architectures
- Establish platform governance, security, data classification, lineage, auditing, access management, and compliance controls
- Manage service-level objectives, operational metrics, monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement
- Manage platform investments, budgets, capacity forecasts, vendor relationships, licensing, and FinOps practices
- Develop and mentor engineering leaders and technical teams
- Evaluate and adopt emerging data, AI, and cloud technologies through proofs of concept and strategic investments
- Partner with Data Engineering and Data Science teams to deliver enterprise data products, machine learning, and AI capabilities
Vizient Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vizient and has not been reviewed or approved by Vizient.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off allowances are generous, with ample PTO and holidays available from day one. Separate paid volunteer days add additional protected time away.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexibility to work from anywhere for part of the year and hybrid options support work-life balance. Policies enabling remote periods complement the broader PTO structure.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a competitive 401(k) company match alongside HSA contributions on eligible plans. These elements strengthen long-term financial security within the total rewards package.
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What We Do
Vizient, Inc., the nation’s largest health care performance improvement company, serves more than 50% of the nation’s acute care providers, which includes 97% of the nation’s academic medical centers, and more than 20% of ambulatory care providers. Vizient provides expertise, analytics and advisory services, as well as a contract portfolio that represents more than $130 billion in annual purchasing volume. Vizient is based in Dallas and has offices in 20 metropolitan areas across the United States. We have 4,000 employees with a breadth of expertise, experience and compassion, who are eager to develop and implement solutions that advance health care for the greater good.
