Director Data Platform Engineering
Blink HealthNew York, New York, United States
Posted February 11, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Blink Health is the fastest growing healthcare technology company that builds products to make prescriptions accessible and affordable to everybody.
Job Description
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