Blink Health is seeking a Director of Data Platform & Engineering to lead the evolution of their real-time and batch data platform, built on AWS and Databricks. The role owns the strategy, execution, and people leadership for the data platform and engineering team, managing a team of Data Engineers and Data Platform Engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building distributed data systems, with 3+ years of significant leadership experience owning scaled data platforms
- Experience defining and operationalizing data contracts, event schema standards, enterprise data models, data quality and governance frameworks at scale
- Deep expertise in real-time data systems, including AWS Kinesis and Spark Structured Streaming
- Strong command of cloud-based data platforms - preferably Databricks and Tableau environments on AWS (Delta Lake, clusters, jobs, performance tuning) and core AWS services (S3, IAM, networking)
- Proven experience designing and operating data-serving architectures and APIs for analytics, metrics, and feature consumption
- Advanced understanding of Python and SQL, with the ability to guide high-performance pipeline and platform design
- Demonstrated success designing idempotent, replayable, observable data platforms with strong operational rigor
- Experience leading platform modernization and reducing technical complexity at scale
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Flexible work arrangements
- Opportunities for professional growth and development