Assistant Director, Health Fund Product & Data Engineering

Job Code
N525HF


Department Name
Health Fund Admin

Reports To
Director, Health Fund Chief of Staff

FLSA Status
Exempt

Union Code
N/A

Management
Yes

About Us:

Building Services 32BJ Benefit Funds ("the Funds") is the umbrella organization responsible for administering Health, Pension, Retirement Savings, Training, and Legal Services benefits to over 100,000 SEIU 32BJ members. Our mission is to make significant contributions to the lives of our members by providing high quality benefits and services. Through our commitment, we embody five core values:
Flexibility, Initiative, Respect, Sustainability, and Teamwork (FIRST). By following our core values, employees are open to different and new ways of doing things, take active steps to improve the organization, create an environment of trust and respect, approach their work with the intent of a positive outcome, and work collaboratively with colleagues.

The Funds oversees and manages $9 billion of dollars in assets, which are made up of many, varied and complex funds. The dollars come from a number of sources, including the property owners who pay into the funds on behalf of their employees, and as such, requires those who oversee and manage the money to be highly skilled financial management people.

For 2025 and beyond, 32BJ Benefit Funds will continue to drive innovation, equity, and technology insights to further help the lives of our hard-working members and their families. We use cutting edge technology such as: M365, Dynamics 365 CRM, Dynamics 365 F&O, Azure, AWS, SQL, Snowflake, Qlik View, and more.

Please take a moment to watch our video to learn more about our culture and contributions to our members:

Job Summary:

Under the supervision of the Health Fund Chief of Staff, the Assistant Director, Health Fund Product & Data Engineering at the 32BJ Health Fund leads the Health Fund data engineering and product development teams. This role will lead the design, development, and optimization of data-driven solutions that support Health Fund products and analytics. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical expertise to ensure scalable, secure, and innovative data platforms.

The idea candidate will partner with cross-functional teams to delivery high-quality data engineering solutions that enhance product performance, improve member experience, and support organizational growth.

The Assistant Director, Health Fund Product & Data Engineering supports the direction and overall data strategy that is focused on supporting the goals and the mission of the 32BJ Health Fund to provide best comprehensive health benefits to BJ SEIU Union members and their dependents. The team focuses on leveraging over 10 years of medical claims data, provider data and pricing data (internal and external) to inform improvements to the plan design, member navigation, direct contracting, and price transparency.

The 32BJ Health Fund is at the forefront of leveraging data towards healthcare transformation and this role requires a strong and collaborative leader who is not content with the status quo, able to inspire, and who looks to form long-lasting internal and external partnerships. This is an ideal opportunity for an accomplished professional, self-driven strategic thinker, skilled at navigating and balancing internal business systems with mission-based priorities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise, develop, and inspire a team of talented Data Engineering, Product Development, and other technical professionals.

• Motivate and gain the support of others to achieve organizational goals through emotional intelligence, accountability, and respect.

• Work closely with the Health Fund leadership to develop a data strategy that allows for efficient use of internal data, external data, and price transparency tools to drive rational benefit design, contracting and support for existing tools that heavily rely on data (provider search tools, internal CRM, member portal).

• Support strategy goals and objectives and work with cross-functional teams on key objectives.

• Collaborate with the Chief of Staff to develop and execute the data engineering and product development roadmap aligned with organizational objectives

• Propose and develop high level KPls and metrics to measure the effectiveness of technical initiatives in serving our participants and advancing our mission.

• Facilitate and coordinate work on evolving data infrastructure architecture by collaborating closely with IT, Operations, and Health Fund leadership to support the full breadth of data projects and initiatives at the Health Fund.

• Lead, with the Chief of Staff and cross-functional partners, the design and implementation of scalable data architecture and analytics solutions using Databricks platform.

• Support the team's professional development, performance review and the hiring process.

• Guide implementation of CI/CD practices using Azure Dev Ops for data and analytics workflows.

• Collaborate with IT to evaluate and recommend new…