Director, Data Platforms and Tooling

At Zelis we Get Stuff Done. So lets get to it!

A Little About Us

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers providers and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers including the top five national health plans regional health plans TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify optimize and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts driving real measurable results for clients.

At Zelis AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo accelerate innovation and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility embrace change and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions exceptional experiences and the future of our industry for our clients customers and our culture.

A Little About You

You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences community involvement and the valuable lessons youve learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements the knowledge youve gained and the personal interests that shape who you are.

Position Overview

Zelis is becoming an AI-Native company and the Zelis Data Cloud (ZDC) is the data foundation that our analytics AI and agentic engineering stand on. The Director Data Platforms & Tooling owns that foundations engineering layer: Snowflake platform engineering and scalability foundational tooling CI/CD and DevOps for data and platform governance and security including the PHI/DLP guardrails required for healthcare data. This leader sets the reference architecture and standards that the other ZDC teams build against.
This is a builder-leader role: accountable for a production-grade secure scalable platform not a coordination seat.

What Youll Do:

• Snowflake platform engineering & scalability own platform architecture scalability and roadmap across data-warehouse data-lake and Data Sharing use cases including open table formats (Apache Iceberg on AWS S3); manage multiple Snowflake accounts (consolidation migration modernization); design for resilience (replication disaster recovery / failover); ensure the platform scales with ingestion volume AI workloads and business demand.

• Foundational tooling CI/CD & DevOps for data build and own the data DevOps stack: version control CI/CD for Snowflake / dbt objects environment automation infrastructure-as-code secrets management (Vault / AWS Secrets Manager) and release discipline.

• dbt project administration & standards own dbt project configuration model architecture standards test-coverage enforcement and model-promotion workflows across environments.

• Platform governance security & PHI/DLP guardrails set and enforce governance security and data-protection standards (masking access control tokenization encryption Snowflake Horizon) across environments; partner with Security and Compliance on HIPAA / PHI.

• Reference architecture & standards define the patterns standards and guardrails the other teams adopt including medallion layering (Bronze/Silver/Gold) semantic views and ELT/ETL patterns; act as the technical authority for platform decisions.

• Snowflake capability adoption evaluate emerging Snowflake features (e.g. Cortex AI Horizon Data Sharing) and drive adoption to improve performance scalability security and cost.

• Lead & grow the platform team build and lead the platform engineering tooling and release-engineering function; partner closely with the Snowflake administration function on platform standards and reference architecture.

• Enable the AI layer ready the platform for Cortex AI / Relational AI and agentic workloads (governed access to semantic / ontology layers safe compute patterns).

• Cost & FinOps stewardship own platform-level cost governance and consumption efficiency in partnership with Data Operations.

What Youll Bring to Zelis:

• 10 years in data platform / data engineering including 4 years in engineering leadership.

• Deep Snowflake platform architecture experience at enterprise scale including performance tuning and cost optimization.

• Strong DevOps / CI/CD / IaC background for data platforms (Terraform dbt schemachange Git-based workflows).

• Proven ownership of platform governance and security ideally including sensitive-data protection.

• Experience setting reference architecture and standards adopted across multiple teams.

• Deep experience running Snowflake on AWS (S3 storage integrations networking) and familiarity with core AWS services and cloud cost management.

Preferred qualifications

• Healthcare data experience; strong grasp of HIPAA / PHI and DLP in a cloud data platform.

• Experience preparing a platform for AI/ML and agentic (Cortex / Relational AI) workloads.

• Familiarity with OpenFlow ingestion medallion architecture ontology / semantic layers and Sigma.

• Track record building durable platform teams and maturing platform capabilities.
• SnowPro Advanced: Architect certification a plus.

Please note at this time we are unable to proceed with candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Location and Workplace Flexibility

Zelis is headquartered in the U.S. with multiple locations across the country and in Hyderabad India. Check out our locations to learn more about our offices. All employee work locations are based on the needs of the position and are determined by the Leadership -office work and activities vary based on work and team objectives in accordance with Company policies.

While location expectations vary by role candidates within approximately 50 miles of a U.S. office are generally preferred to support collaboration when needed. Our hybrid approach is flexible and in-office presence is guided by team and business needs rather than a fixed weekly schedule.

Base Salary Range

$169000.00 - $213750.00

At Zelis we are committed to providing fair and equitable compensation packages. The base salary range allows us to make an offer that considers multiple individualized factors including experience education qualifications as well as job-related and industry-related knowledge and skills etc. Base pay is just one part of our Total Rewards package which may also include discretionary bonus plans commissions or other incentives depending on the role.

Zelis full-time associates are eligible for a highly competitive benefits package as well which demonstrates our commitment to our employees health well-being and financial protection. The US-based benefits include a 401k plan with employer match flexible paid time off holidays parental leaves life and disability insurance and health benefits including medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you dont meet 100% of the qualifications for the role. We believe in the value of diverse perspectives and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive workplace for all.

Accessibility Support
We are dedicated to ensuring our application process is accessible to all candidates. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require a reasonable accommodation with any part of the application and/or interview process please email .

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities duties and skills from time to time.