Director, Data Platforms

A Little About Us

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients.

You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you've learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you've gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.

The Director, Data Platforms will lead the continued modernization and scale of the Snowflake data platform powering Zelis’ Member Experience and Transparency solutions.

This leader is responsible for strengthening Snowflake architecture, advancing BI modernization (including Sigma migration), enabling AI‑ready infrastructure, and ensuring secure, compliant, and high‑performing cloud data operations.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role requiring architectural depth, migration experience, AI enablement expertise, and strong cross‑functional partnership.

• Lead the architecture, optimization, and scaling of the Snowflake data platform supporting Member Experience and Transparency solutions.
• Drive modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy data environments to Snowflake.
• Conduct architecture reviews and influence technical direction through strong engineering conversations.
• Establish best practices for performance tuning, workload management, cost optimization, and resiliency.
• Ensure scalable ELT frameworks and modern data engineering standards.

• Drive BI transformation initiatives, including Sigma migration and modernization.
• Improve performance, usability, and reliability of reporting solutions that power member‑facing transparency insights.
• Partner with analytics and product teams to evolve BI capabilities aligned to business needs.

• Architect AI‑ready data infrastructure that supports advanced analytics and emerging AI use cases.
• Enable AI‑driven productivity within engineering and analytics teams.
• Design data foundations that support agentic AI systems driving workflow automation and intelligent decision‑making.
• Establish governance guardrails to ensure responsible, secure AI deployment.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to embed AI capabilities within transparency and member experience solutions.

• Ensure secure, compliant Snowflake environments aligned to healthcare and regulatory standards (including HIPAA).
• Implement robust RBAC models, data masking, lineage tracking, and auditing capabilities in line with the enterprise Infosec guidelines.
• Partner with Cloud and Security teams to align data platform strategy with enterprise cloud architecture.
• Lead cost governance and resource optimization across ME&T BU Snowflake environments.

• Serve as a strategic technical partner across Product, Engineering, Security, and Business stakeholders.
• Translate business priorities into scalable platform capabilities.
• Influence platform direction through architectural rigor and strong technical communication.
• Align platform evolution with Member Experience and Transparency objectives.

• 10+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform architecture.
• 5+ years hands‑on experience leading Snowflake environments at scale.
• Proven experience leading Snowflake migrations and modernization initiatives.
• Experience modernizing BI platforms, including Sigma migration.
• Deep expertise in Snowflake performance optimization and architecture…