JOB DESCRIPTION

Director of Enterprise Data Engineering - Digital and Technology Partners - Remote - Req#3016788

The Director of Enterprise Data Engineering is a key part of the enterprise data & analytics leadership team. This role will develop and execute the data engineering portion of our refreshed enterprise data strategy to address both the short-term needs of today and long-term innovative goals of Mount Sinai Health System. This role will touch all aspects of Mount Sinai Health System’s different data and analytics consumers who include executives, data scientists, analysts, researchers, clinicians, operators, administrators and more.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Duties and Responsibilities

Team Leadership, Data Engineering Development and Management

• Lead, mentor, and manage a diverse data engineering team, fostering a collaborative and productive environment while focusing on the team’s professional growth and effective project delivery.

• Participate in the design, implementation, and maintenance of a robust Data Lakehouse architecture, ensuring its scalability, security, and alignment with healthcare’s standards.

• Develop a high-performing data ingestion framework.

• Oversee the development of ETLs and data models to support the creation of operational, clinical, strategic, and research-focused analytics use cases.

• Coordinate and manage both on-site and offshore data engineering teams, ensuring seamless communication, efficient workflow, and adherence to project timelines and quality standards.

• Facilitate the integration and utilization of APIs for seamless data exchange, while ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations like HIPAA.

Data Governance, Policy Development, Performance Monitoring and Data Quality Assurance

• Establish and uphold data governance frameworks and policies, ensuring data integrity, compliance with healthcare regulations, and security across all data systems and platforms.

• Responsible for our data governance software/services, bringing (or developing) the necessary expertise to evaluate and implement the system to enable data quality measurement and improvement through scripts and data stewardship. This also includes the deployment of enterprise data catalog, lineage, business glossary and data stewardship workflows.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement

• Actively collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior management, ensuring data engineering initiatives support organizational objectives and maintain strong external partnerships for technology solutions.

• Work closely with third party consultants, contractors, and offshore resources to ensure effective communication and collaboration between organizations, such as leading morning huddles.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration and/or Information Systems with course work in Computer Science or equivalent; Masters preferred.

• 5 years of progressive information systems management experience preferably in a health care field.

• Prefer 10+ years of experience in healthcare systems, including significant exposure to data management, analytics, and engineering in a healthcare setting.

• Exceptional people skills: adept at engaging effectively with diverse skill sets and personalities across various organizational levels.

• Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities, with history of addressing challenging technical and organizational issues.

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a proven ability to prioritize workload, meet strict deadlines, and manage multiple projects concurrently.

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with proficiency in crafting clear and persuasive narratives for various audiences.

• Experience with Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems, displaying a deep understanding of their integration, functionality, and data structures within a healthcare setting.

• Knowledge of healthcare data standards, such as HL7, FHIR, and ICD-10.

• Knowledgeable in current data security practices and compliance standards relevant to healthcare, such as HIPAA.

• Experience with data integration and interoperability within healthcare environments, including proficiency in developing and utilizing APIs for data exchange between healthcare systems.

• Expertise in at least one public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and proficiency with modern data processing and engineering tools.

• Experience building ETL workflows in different platforms (Pentaho, Azure Data Factory, Azure Fabric, Databricks).

• Experience with version control systems like Git for managing code and collaboration.

• Experience with data visualization and BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, and Plotly.

Non-Bargaining Unit, 223 - DTP Enterprise Data & Analytics - MSH, Mount Sinai Hospital

REQUIRED SKILLS

MS Excel

MS Word

ABOUT US

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Requisition ID : 3016788