Clover Health

Head of Engineering, Data Platform

Remote - USA · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$223k-$270kDetected 20 days ago

SnowflakedbtLLMsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

You'll set technical strategy and write the code that proves it out, working alongside a small, focused team and reporting directly to the Corporate CTO.
Identify the highest-leverage opportunities.
Ship a first step-function improvement or solve a fundamental limitation. - 6 Months: Team transformation completed.

Own Platform Strategy & Execution
Own the data platform end-to-end - architecture, tooling decisions, and roadmap - with a bias toward enabling broad, self-serve access to data across the business
Be hands-on with Snowflake and DBT, contributing directly alongside the team on builds, migrations, and optimizations
Define and evolve our approach to data modeling, including well-reasoned opinions on mart/gold layer design - when to enforce structure and when to get out of the way
Make strategic build vs. buy decisions on tooling and vendor relationships, framing those decisions in terms of business and operational outcomes - not just technical elegance
Drive AI-Native Data Platform
Use AI actively in your own workflow and bring strong opinions about where AI changes what a data platform needs to do and where it doesn't
Partner with business stakeholders to translate data needs into platform capabilities without creating unnecessary friction or access barriers

Make progress and tradeoffs visible to leadership as a natural byproduct of how you work

An engineering background with deep, hands-on experience in Snowflake and DBT
Proven experience navigating genuinely complex data environments and deeply heterogeneous source systems, messy integrations, inconsistent data models, and real business logic embedded in pipelines.
The complexity of what you've worked with matters far more than the volume or scale
Cross-domain background is a plus
if you've built complex data platforms across different business contexts, that breadth is an asset.
A strong, well-reasoned point of view on data access philosophy
you believe raw data should be broadly available to business users and can defend why
You have shipped AI-backed data systems and pipelines serving LLM applications, agentic workflows in data operations, or AI tooling that fundamentally changed what your team could do.

Data platform is recognized as a strategic business asset.
Team is growing their skills, increasing capacity and insights, and operating with autonomy

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offering discounted equity opportunities
Reimbursement for office setup expenses
Monthly cell phone & internet stipend
Paid parental leave for all new parents
About Clover: We are reinventing health insurance by combining the power of data with human empathy to keep our members healthier.
We believe the healthcare system is broken, so we've created custom software and analytics to empower our clinical staff to intervene and provide personalized care to the people who need it most.
Those who work at Clover are passionate and mission-driven individuals with diverse areas of expertise, working together to solve the most complicated problem in the world: healthcare.
Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one's identity.
Final pay is based on several factors including but not limited to internal equity, market data, and the applicant's education, work experience, certifications, etc.
Our commitment to attracting and retaining top talent begins with a competitive base salary and equity opportunities.
Additionally, we offer a performance-based bonus program, 401k matching, and regular compensation reviews to recognize and reward exceptional contributions.
We prioritize the health and well-being of our employees and their families by providing comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.

Design and evolve a data platform that is built for an AI-native organization - pipelines that serve LLM applications, infrastructure that supports agentic workflows, and tooling that compresses what used to take weeks into hours
Stay ahead of how AI is reshaping the role of data teams and translate that into concrete platform and staffing decisions
We are an E-Verify company.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, perspectives, opinions, and backgrounds, who share a passion for improving people's lives.

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