The Aspen Group (TAG) is one of the largest and most trusted retail healthcare business support organizations in the U.S. and has supported over 20,000 healthcare professionals and team members with close to 1,500 health and wellness offices across 48 states in four distinct categories: dental care, urgent care, medical aesthetics, and animal health. Working in partnership with independent practice owners and clinicians, the team is united with a single purpose: to prove that healthcare can be better and smarter for everyone. TAG provides a comprehensive suite of centralized business support services that power the impact of five consumer-facing businesses: Aspen Dental, ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, WellNow Urgent Care, Chapter Aesthetic Studio, and Lovet. Each brand has access to a deep community of experts, tools and resources to grow their practices, and an unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality consumer healthcare experiences at scale.
As a reflection of our current needs and planned growth we are very pleased to offer a new opportunity to join our dedicated team as a Manager, Data Engineering.
Job Description
The Manager, Data Engineering leads the design, delivery, and reliability of TAG's enterprise data platform across our multi-brand environment. It's a hands-on leadership role covering people management, architecture, platform engineering, and operations.
The right person can lead a team of Data Engineers and still do the work themselves — technical design, code reviews, incident management, platform modernization, and engineering standards. They'll also drive AI-assisted development, automation, and cloud cost optimization to keep the team productive and the platform scalable.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Delivery
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Data Engineers across multiple domains.
Run sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and delivery.
Balance strategic work, operational support, and technical debt.
Partner with business, analytics, and technology leaders to align priorities.
Data Platform & Engineering
Own the architecture and delivery of scalable data pipelines, semantic models, and data products.
Set standards for data modeling, integration, and platform architecture across dbt, Airflow/Cloud Composer, BigQuery, Terraform, and CI/CD.
Lead design reviews, evaluate new technologies, and drive platform modernization.
AI & Engineering Excellence
Lead AI-assisted development (Claude AI/Gemini Enterprise) across code reviews, documentation, testing, and automation.
Set standards and governance for responsible use of AI-generated code.
Reliability, Operations & Cloud
Own data platform reliability, monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis.
Establish SLAs, operational metrics, and on-call processes.
Ensure compliance with data governance, security, privacy, and access management.
Optimize performance, scalability, and cost across GCP, including BigQuery consumption, storage, and slot utilization.
Qualifications
Required Experience
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field. GCP Professional Data Engineer Certification a plus.
7+ years of Data Engineering experience with modern cloud data platforms.
3+ years of leadership experience managing Data Engineering teams.
Technical Skills
Strong expertise in SQL, Python, dbt, and Airflow/Cloud Composer.
Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including BigQuery, GCS, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, and Vertex AI.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD automation.
Strong understanding of data warehousing, semantic modeling, data quality, and governance across batch, streaming, and event-driven architectures.
Leadership Competencies
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing technical direction.
Track record of building strong teams and a solid engineering culture.
*This role is onsite 4 days/week in our Chicago office (Fulton Market District)
Annual Salary Range: $160,000-$190,000/year, with a generous benefits package that includes paid time off, health, dental, vision, and 401(k) savings plan with match.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field
- 7+ years of data engineering experience with modern cloud data platforms
- 3+ years of leadership experience managing data engineering teams
- Strong expertise in SQL, Python, dbt, and Airflow or Cloud Composer
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including BigQuery, GCS, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, and Vertex AI
- Experience with Terraform and CI/CD automation
- Strong understanding of data warehousing, semantic modeling, data quality, and data governance
- Experience with batch, streaming, and event-driven architectures
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing technical direction
- Track record of building strong teams and a solid engineering culture
- GCP Professional Data Engineer Certification
TAG - The Aspen Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about TAG - The Aspen Group and has not been reviewed or approved by TAG - The Aspen Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan choices with defined costs, HSA support, and accessible plan documents indicate a robust health offering. Distinctive features like GLP‑1 coverage on the HSA plan and clear SBCs add clarity for election decisions.
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Retirement Support — A clearly outlined 401(k) program features an immediately vested employer match with explicit eligibility timing. Consistent references to the plan and enrollment resources across brand sites underscore ease of access.
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Affordable Benefits — Dental-care discounts through the Aspen Dental network—free preventive services and reduced rates for procedures—help lower out‑of‑pocket costs. Additional perks like brand discounts and pet insurance can further stretch total value for some roles.
TAG - The Aspen Group Insights
What We Do
When we helped launch Aspen Dental, we set out to break down the barriers that made it hard for patients to keep up with their dental health — affordability, transparency, and access. We knew the key to better patient care started with the provider, so we changed how the dental business worked. We built new relationships, expertise, and tools to help dentists run their businesses more effectively and better care for their patients. Fast forward, and over 25 years later, we support more than 1000 Aspen Dental locations—by doing so, we are proud to say we have changed access to dental care nationwide. But there’s more work to do. Healthier, happier smiles were just our beginning. We came together to launch TAG – The Aspen Group, officially expanding beyond dental and embracing a new vision. By bringing together Aspen Dental, Chapter, ClearChoice, WellNow, and Lovet into one family of brands, we set out to achieve one simple goal together: to bring better healthcare to more people - because we believe in a future where health and wellness is accessible for all. With that mission in mind, TAG now supports over 5,300 clinicians across more than 1,400 locations. While our vision is now broader, how we achieve it remains the same. The best care starts with the provider - and TAG exists to power them so they can meet patients where they are, no matter their specialty, and deliver better care. Because we know that at the end of the day, better healthcare is simple — empower the provider and their teams, and the rest will follow. United as one group, we’re not just breaking down barriers; today, we’re breaking through. We’re challenging the status quo. Together, we can prove healthcare can be better for both providers and patients. Together, we can bring better healthcare to more people.
Why Work With Us
TAG - The Aspen Group employs and/or supports over 25,000 healthcare professionals and team members at more than 1,400 health and wellness offices across 46 states in four distinct categories: Dental care, urgent care, medical aesthetics, and animal health. Every day we wake up to empower providers to do what they do best: focus on the patient.
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