Ochsner Health

Ochsner Health

Principal Data Engineer

New Orleans - New Orleans Region - Louisiana · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago
SQLSnowflakeDatabricksAWSAzureCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningData AnalysisData EngineeringData VisualizationAgentic AIAI OrchestrationAccessibilityStakeholder ManagementProcess ImprovementPharmacy PracticeLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

  • We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways.
  • The Principal Data Engineer is an enterprise‑level technical expert responsible for architecting complex data solutions, designing cross‑domain frameworks, and shaping the organizational data strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Strategic mindset with the ability to design for long‑term scalability and value.
  • Proven capability in ETL/ELT design, streaming data pipelines, workflow orchestration, and DevOps practices (version control, CI/CD).
  • Deep expertise in Cloud Databases, Advanced SQL, Data modelling, Medallion data architectures, and complex data model design.
  • Evaluates and implements emerging technologies, including AI/ML capabilities, to enhance data products and deliver measurable business value and innovation.
  • Strong experience in developing and implementing engineering standards, best practices, and continuous improvement across the data engineering function.
  • Building data products, semantic models and/or AI Agents
  • Strong mentoring ability and passion for building engineering talent.
  • Designs enterprise-scale data platforms and solutions leveraging cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS) and modern data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks).
  • Optimizes data ecosystems by simplifying integration patterns, improving performance, and eliminating redundancy.
  • Drives engineering excellence through quality first practices, performance optimization, and process improvement initiatives.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • This role brings advanced engineering mastery, deep technology acumen, and the ability to apply an enterprise perspective to data architecture.
  • 10+ years Data engineering or related technical experience.
  • Ability to influence executive stakeholders and guide organizational direction.

Nice to have

  • 10+ years experience in platform engineering and FinOps, data analytics, and visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI and Sigma.

Skills

  • Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills.

This listing is sourced directly from Ochsner Health's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.