Director Data Platform Engineering

Blink Health

New York, NY, United States
On-site
10+ years building distributed data systems
3+ years significant leadership experience
Deep expertise in aws kinesis and spark structured streaming
This role owns the strategy, execution, and people leadership for Blink's real-time and batch data platform built on AWS and Databricks

Job Summary

  • This role owns the strategy, execution, and people leadership for Blink's real-time and batch data platform built on AWS and Databricks.
  • The successful candidate will unify real-time and historical data with strong data quality and correctness guarantees while setting standards for performance and cost efficiency.
  • Blink Health is a highly collaborative team of builders dedicated to inventing new ways to improve patient access to critical medications.

Matching Summary

This role owns the strategy, execution, and people leadership for Blink's real-time and batch data platform built on AWS and Databricks.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 10+ years building distributed data systems
  • 3+ years significant leadership experience
  • Deep expertise in AWS Kinesis and Spark Structured Streaming
  • Strong command of Databricks and Delta Lake environments
  • Experience defining data contracts and event schema standards

Nice-to-have

  • Ability to guide high-performance pipeline design
  • Experience with Tableau environments on AWS
  • Proven success designing idempotent data platforms
  • Strong operational rigor and observability skills

Key Requirements

  • 10+ years experience in distributed data systems
  • 3+ years of leadership owning scaled data platforms
  • Advanced understanding of Python and SQL

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