Job Title: Director- Data Engineering
Experience: 15+ Years
Job Location: Hyderabad, India
Company Overview:
Ensemble Health Partners India is at the forefront of innovation in the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) space, leveraging modern technology to drive meaningful, real world impact. Our future ready platforms bring together AI driven analytics, intelligent data ingestion, workflow automation, and business intelligence built on a scalable, cloud native architecture. Our AI powered solutions are actively running in production, continuously optimizing processes and delivering data driven insights at scale. With the second largest market share in the U.S. RCM industry, a global workforce of 15,000+ professionals, and 12 technology patents, we deliver results through strong teams, proven processes, and flexible, modern technologies. As part of our continued growth, we have launched our Global Capability Center (GCC) in Hyderabad designed to serve as a strategic extension of our global operations. The GCC brings together technology, analytics, and RCM expertise to build scalable solutions, accelerate innovation, and support our long term vision of transforming healthcare operations. At Ensemble Health Partners India, we foster a culture of growth, collaboration, and innovation where your expertise is valued, your ideas are heard, and your work makes a measurable impact.
Position Summary:
We are seeking a Director, Data Engineering to lead and scale Ensemble’s Data Engineering organization based in India. This role is responsible for driving execution excellence, platform reliability, and people leadership for a data engineering organization of 40+ engineers. The Director will partner closely with global product, platform, analytics, and AI/ML stakeholders to deliver high-quality, governed, and scalable data platforms built on Azure and Databricks.
What You’ll Do:
Strategy & Platform Ownership
• Define and execute the data engineering roadmap aligned with business and platform priorities.
• Own architecture and evolution of the Azure + Databricks lakehouse platform.
• Establish standard patterns, frameworks, and paved paths for ingestion, transformation, and consumption.
• Balance innovation with platform stability, cost efficiency, and scalability.
Engineering Execution & Delivery
• Own end-to-end delivery of data engineering commitments across multiple teams and pods.
• Drive predictable delivery, capacity planning, and dependency management.
• Ensure production readiness, operational SLAs, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Lead cost optimization and performance tuning across Databricks workloads.
Governance, Quality & Security
• Establish strong data quality, pipeline monitoring, and reliability practices.
• Implement governance-by-design including access control, data masking, and lineage.
• Ensure compliance and secure handling of enterprise and client data.
People Leadership & Talent
• Lead and grow a 40+ member data engineering organization.
• Manage and develop Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and senior engineers.
• Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning.
• Build a culture of accountability, ownership, and engineering excellence.
Stakeholder Collaboration
• Partner with product, analytics, AI/ML, and platform leaders to align priorities.
• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership.
• Translate business needs into scalable technical execution.
Required Skills:
• 15+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform engineering.
• 6+ years of experience leading large, multi-team engineering organizations (30+ engineers).
• Proven experience managing managers and senior technical leaders.
• Deep hands-on experience with Azure and Databricks in production environments.
• Strong understanding of data governance, quality, and operational best practices.
• Strong architectural thinking and ability to drive design for cross-team systems.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication with the ability to influence without authority.
Why Join US?
• Work on real-world healthcare and technology challenges, powered by emerging technologies and a strong innovation mindset.
• Be part of a fast-growing, people-first organization where your work creates measurable impact.
• Grow continuously with structured learning, certifications, and industry-recognized development programs.
• Collaborate with high caliber teams that value ownership, trust, and accountability.
• Grow alongside an organization that’s scaling with purpose and clarity. Be part of a fast scaling Global Capability Center with meaningful global responsibility.
Benefits:
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage for associate, kids (2) and parents supporting physical and financial well being beyond the workplace.
• Accidental insurance coverage for the associate that adds an extra layer of security.
• Professional development programs with reimbursement support to help you upskill and grow with confidence.
• A workplace that is fully compliant with labor laws, including maternity and paternity benefits.
• Thoughtful experiences like welcome kits, company swag, and work anniversary gifts that recognize your journey with us.
• Benefits designed to support you at different stages of life and career, not just on day one.