Director of Data Engineering & Architecture
Surgery PartnersNashville, Tennessee, United States
Posted March 4, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Surgery Partners is a national operator of more than 180 ambulatory surgery centers and ancillary service facilities, delivering integrated healthcare experiences that combine surgical, anesthesiology, nursing and physician care. The company’s core focus is to improve quality and accessibility of care through flexible, market‑specific strategies that blend new facility openings, joint ventures, and service line expansion. Its distinctive value lies in a patient‑centric, partnership‑driven model that emphasizes individualized treatment, cost‑efficiency, and community engagement, supported by a diverse workforce of over 15,000 employees and 4,600 physicians serving 600,000 patients each year. Surgery Partners’ commitment to diversity, inclusion, and compassionate care positions it as a leader in the ambulatory surgery and healthcare solutions sector.
Job Description
Director of Data Engineering & Architecture provides leadership and strategic direction for data engineering and data architecture capabilities supporting enterprise analytics and healthcare operations. The role oversees a growing team of data engineers and plays a central part in advancing the organization’s Azure-based data transformation, including the use of Azure Databricks and related services.
Requirements
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers
- Provide architectural direction for the enterprise data warehouse and data lake
- Design and optimize scalable, secure data pipelines
- Ensure solutions are designed for scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and long-term maintainability
- Partner with clinical, operational, analytics, and IT teams to deliver trusted, self-service data and insights
- Establish and enforce data governance, privacy, security, and quality standards
- Support data stewardship, documentation, and auditability across the data ecosystem
- Stay current with industry trends in data engineering, cloud platforms, DataOps, and MLOps
- Contribute to long-term data and analytics strategy and roadmap development
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Health Savings Account with an employer contribution
- Life Insurance
- PTO
- 401(k) retirement plan with a company match
