Staff Software Engineer
At a glance
Senior Engineering Leadership role at Vizient. Edina · full-time · $117,600–$206,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Lead the build of a Palantir Foundry data product, from its ontology and curated datasets through analytics engineering frameworks
- Model healthcare data from EHR and ERP systems as reusable objects, relationships and governed business concepts
- Create PySpark pipelines, semantic models, metrics and datasets for reporting and AI-enabled workflows
- Set standards for data contracts and ontology design, and strengthen quality, privacy, security, governance and lineage
- Make platform architecture decisions, work across teams on business needs, and mentor engineers in modern practices
What you bring
- Hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise data products on Palantir Foundry
- Ability to build scalable PySpark transformations, pipelines and analytics models using healthcare data
- Technical leadership across ontology design, data governance, security and reliable platform architecture
Who this fits
This senior technical leadership role suits an engineer who can shape architecture while mentoring other engineers. The work spans healthcare data, analytics and AI-enabled workflows, with collaboration across product, analytics, operations, governance, security and engineering teams.
From the employer
When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.
Responsibilities:
Required Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of a Palantir Foundry-based data product, including enterprise ontology, curated datasets, and analytics engineering frameworks.
- Design and evolve enterprise ontology models that integrate EHR, ERP, and related healthcare data into reusable object types, relationships, and governed business concepts.
- Develop scalable PySpark transformations, data pipelines, semantic models, metrics, and analytical datasets supporting enterprise reporting and AI-enabled workflows.
- Establish engineering standards, data contracts, ontology design patterns, and technical frameworks that promote scalability, consistency, and maintainability.
- Implement data quality, governance, security, privacy, lineage, and observability practices to support trusted and compliant healthcare data solutions.
- Drive architectural decisions and technical strategies that improve platform performance, reliability, scalability, and long-term sustainability.
- Partner with product, analytics, operations, data governance, security, and engineering teams to translate client and business needs into sustainable technical solutions.
- Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and champion modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development and agentic coding approaches.
Preferred Responsibilities:
- Evaluate emerging Palantir Foundry and AIP capabilities to identify opportunities for enhanced analytics, automation, and product innovation.
- Advance enterprise semantic modeling and reusable analytics frameworks to accelerate development of future data products and AI-enabled applications.
Estimated Hiring Range:
At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $117,600.00 to $206,000.00.This position is also incentive eligible.
Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:
http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers
Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.