UCLA Health

Senior Data Engineer

UCLA Health$109K — $243K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related field
  • Strong knowledge of data infrastructure and architecture
  • Proficiency in data pipeline development and management
  • Experience with cloud services, specifically Azure and Databricks
  • Familiarity with data governance and quality frameworks
  • Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain scalable data pipelines for diverse data sources
  • Build and support foundational infrastructure for analytics and machine learning
  • Develop reliable, well-governed data products and curated datasets
  • Engineer solutions in various healthcare domains, ensuring data quality and availability
  • Implement modern best practices in data engineering and CI/CD
  • Create and maintain technical documentation and data dictionaries
  • Optimize enterprise data pipelines for performance and scalability

Benefits

  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentoring
  • Involvement in cross-functional projects in healthcare
  • Support for cloud modernization initiatives
Full Job Description
Description

Senior Data Engineer

What You'll Do

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will:
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest, transform, validate, and deliver data from complex enterprise applications and external data sources.
  • Build foundational data infrastructure that supports enterprise reporting, analytics, machine learning, data science, feature engineering, and AI-driven solutions.
  • Develop trusted, well-governed data products, curated datasets, and reusable data models that are reliable, scalable, and easy to consume.
  • Engineer solutions across diverse healthcare domains, including clinical, operational, financial, research, and administrative data.
  • Implement modern data engineering best practices, including modular design, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, orchestration, observability, and production support.
  • Create and maintain technical architecture documentation, data dictionaries, lineage artifacts, runbooks, and data quality frameworks.
  • Collaborate with data architects, analysts, data scientists, application teams, product managers, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions aligned with organizational priorities.
  • Support enterprise cloud modernization initiatives involving Azure-based data services, Databricks, data lakehouse architectures, enterprise data warehousing, ML-ready datasets, and feature stores.
  • Optimize the performance, reliability, scalability, and usability of enterprise data pipelines and analytical assets.
  • Establish and promote standards for data modeling, metadata management, naming conventions, security, governance, data quality, and reusable engineering frameworks.
  • Lead or contribute to strategic initiatives by defining technical architectures, implementation patterns, delivery approaches, and operational support models.
  • Participate in cross-functional architecture reviews, solution design discussions, and technology planning efforts.
  • Mentor team members through code reviews, technical guidance, documentation, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
  • Partner with leadership to advance engineering standards, platform capabilities, and the long-term data architecture roadmap.


Salary range: $109,900 - $243,900
Salary offers are based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and internal equity . The University anticipates offering a salary below the midpoint of this range.

About UCLA Health

UCLA Health is a world-renowned academic medical center located in Los Angeles, California. It comprises four hospitals, including Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and more than 200 primary and specialty care clinics. UCLA Health is affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the United States. The health system employs over 20,000 people and serves as a major center for patient care, medical education, and research.
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