Director, Data Platform & Engineering

The Director, Data Platform & Services leads the team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining UVM Health’s enterprise analytics data infrastructure. The Director ensures analyst and engineering teams are achieving the priority needs of the organization with efficient, high-performing processes. The Director enforces an agile development methodology with well-documented data pipelines, strong job monitoring processes, and a robust focus on data uptime and quality. The Director serves as senior solution architect, making final design decisions to support a robust, scalable, and supportable data platform. The Director enforces data governance, researches new technologies and works with leadership to fund and plan for implementation, manages strategic vendor partnerships, and enables AI tools such as Copilot and natural language querying of the data platform.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field required; Master’s degree preferred., * 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform leadership, or related roles.
• 5+ years in a management role.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure, or similar cloud data platform technologies.
• Proven track record of building and managing agile data engineering teams.
• Experience managing technology vendor relationships, contracts, and budgets.
• Experience serving as a senior solution architect for enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Experience working in agile product delivery preferred.