Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Job overview

Senior Manager, Data Engineering is an onsite position in Palo Alto, CA, with a starting pay of $83.98 - $111.27 per hour. This role is critical to Stanford Health Care's mission of leveraging data to drive clinical innovation, operational efficiency, enterprise analytics, and research. This role leads data engineering teams responsible for designing, building, and maintaining enterprise data pipelines and platforms. The Senior Manager will partner with stakeholders to deliver enterprise analytics and operational reporting solutions, driving the strategy for data management and analytics across Stanford Medicine.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and manage multiple teams of data engineers, providing technical guidance, career development, and performance management.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Manage resource allocation, project prioritization, and team workloads to ensure timely delivery of key initiatives.
• Recruit, coach, and motivate team members, developing leadership competencies within the team.
• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of scalable and robust data pipelines (ETL/ELT) to support analytics and data science.
• Define and drive the technical roadmap for our cloud-based data platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) and data warehousing solutions (e.g., Databricks).
• Define and implement the strategy for enterprise analytics and operational reporting, in collaboration with key business and clinical stakeholders.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, applications, and data science teams to ensure sustainable and scalable data management and solution delivery.
• Partner with key stakeholders across Stanford Medicine (Stanford Health Care, Stanford School of Medicine, and Stanford Medicine Partners), including data scientists, analysts, clinical leaders, and researchers, to translate data needs into technical requirements.
• Manage the full lifecycle of data engineering projects, from conception and planning to execution and delivery.
• Deploy and facilitate robust project and data governance processes to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Communicate project status, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership.
• Ensure the integrity, reliability, and performance of all data platforms and pipelines.
• Implement and enforce data governance policies and security protocols to protect sensitive patient information and ensure compliance with HIPAA.
• Establish and support an organizational structure that enables effective enterprise reporting and data management.
• Develop and manage the operational budget for the data engineering teams and associated cloud services.

What we're looking for

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

Experience

8+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or a related field. 3+ years of experience in a leadership or management role, directly managing multiple technical teams.

Skills & competencies

data engineering

senior manager

palo alto ca

stanford health care

full-time

day shift

cloud platforms

data pipelines

leadership

healthcare analytics

About the employer

Stanford Health Care is hiring for this role. Industry: Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists). Sector: 62.