Lead Data Engineer

Thank you for considering Progyny!

Progyny’s mission puts our technology platform in the enviable position of very evident purpose: directly supporting the family building journey of millions of individuals. The Lead Data Engineer performs a critical function in support of this goal and the ongoing evolution of our technology and platform strategy: driving the implementation of data capabilities that allow us to effectively scale alongside our business and ensure that core data systems are positioned to support the critical responsibility of enabling our platform and partners. While this role is focused on hands-on implementation of new and evolving capabilities to manage core operational data systems with our platform at scale, it is also one that is expected to innovate and evolve the related patterns and practices for data management across the engineering organization.

In addition to the above, some specific success criteria in this role:

• Ability to guide engineering resources towards optimal models of modern software engineering, incorporating quality and time-to-market objectives pragmatically

• Leadership of software engineers to guide towards next evolution of their career objectives, with consistent principles and servant leader mindset

• Implementation of scalable operational data capabilities (ex: OLTP) with pragmatic balance of cutting edge vs. ‘tried-and-true' technology frameworks

• Role model and influence a proactive approach to anticipating challenges for team to intentionally navigate to optimal outcomes

What you’ll do…

• Work in conjunction with engineering leadership to incorporate strategic objectives and define work plans and resource mobilization models for the team

• Ensure effective execution by self and team to achieve delivery objectives

• Provide strategic input and influence with internal and external stakeholders in the domain of healthcare and general data systems management

• Mentor junior engineers in modern software engineering models that focus on contract-first development, shift-left of design and test functions, and distributed software development and release collaboration models.

• Mentor engineers and stakeholders in the development and deployment constraints and patterns for scalable data platform services

About you…

• 8+ years working in high-volume Healthcare data use cases (Payer, Provider, Health services organization or similar)

• 10+ years in software development for moderate-to-large organizations with mature information technology and software engineering practices

• 5+ years working in software Director role, with management and team leadership responsibilities

• Proven implementation experience and familiarity with variety of core data systems (operational and analytical) and platforms (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Databricks)

• Experience with Big data analytics and stream processing (ex: Spark, Flink)

• Experience with database administration and tuning (ex: indexing, partitioning/sharding, etc.)

• Working experience with noSQL data systems and storage models (Document, Columnar, Graph, Key-value, etc.)

• Experience with Python and associated data transformation/datagram manipulation frameworks (Pandas, Polars), and code management practices (git, gitflow and trunk-based development, etc.)

• Implementation experience with Big Data and streaming models (Kappa architectures) and associated technologies (ex: Kafka)

• Deep knowledge of data ETL patterns and tool suites for implementation (ex: DAG)

• Familiarity with data governance including data catalog/schema conformance, master data management, etc.

Please note: Progyny is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in United States without the need for sponsorship, now or in the future.  

About Progyny:   

Progyny is a transformative fertility, family building and women’s health benefits solution, trusted by the nation’s leading employers, health plans and benefits purchasers. We envision a world where everyone can realize dreams of family and ideal health. Our outcomes prove that comprehensive, inclusive and intentionally designed solutions simultaneously benefit employers, patients and physicians. 

Our benefits solution empowers patients with concierge support, coaching, education, and digital tools; provides access to a premier network of fertility and women's health specialists who use the latest science and technologies; drives optimal clinical outcomes; and reduces healthcare costs.  

Our mission is to empower