[Remote] Lead Engineer, Big Data (AI/Azure Data Services) – REMOTE

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Molina Healthcare is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to collaborate with the Data Quality and Governance team to ensure data integrity and compliance within healthcare data systems. The role involves designing scalable data architectures, implementing data governance policies, and leading a team of data engineers to enhance data quality and support AI solutions. Responsibilities • Collaborate with the Data Quality and Governance team to ensure data pipelines, data integrity, and compliance by defining data strategies, implementing Data Governance capabilities, creating self-service data assets, and integrating robust data quality and governance frameworks to support trustworthy AI solutions. • Design scalable data architectures that support healthcare analytics and AI/ML workflows. • Establish data quality standards and monitoring, manage data lineage, and ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and privacy policies. • Define and enforce data quality standards, validation rules, and monitoring systems tailored to healthcare data. • Collaborate with data stewards, compliance officers, and business stakeholders to resolve data integrity issues and ensure consistent data across systems. • Develop and maintain metadata management, data dictionaries, and stewardship workflows. • Ensure all data engineering practices align with healthcare regulations such as HIPAA, HITECH, and other privacy laws. • Implement data governance policies that support secure, ethical, and compliant data usage across the organization. • Automate data lineage tracking, governance documentation, and audit trails to support transparency and traceability. • Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to ensure data pipelines meet model training and inference requirements. • Architect and implement end-to-end AI pipelines using Agentic AI and GenAI frameworks. • Support the development of trustworthy AI by ensuring the use of reliable, consented, and well-governed data to ensure AI enabled solutions around Data Governance. • Partner with clinical informatics, compliance, IT, and analytics teams to align data engineering efforts with healthcare delivery goals and governance strategies. • Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of quality, compliance, and innovation. • Oversee project delivery and ensure alignment with enterprise data governance objectives. Skills • Data Quality & Governance Leadership • Define and enforce data quality standards, validation rules, and monitoring systems tailored to healthcare data. • Collaborate with data stewards, compliance officers, and business stakeholders to resolve data integrity issues and ensure consistent data across systems. • Develop and maintain metadata management, data dictionaries, and stewardship workflows. • Ensure all data engineering practices align with healthcare regulations such as HIPAA, HITECH, and other privacy laws. • Implement data governance policies that support secure, ethical, and compliant data usage across the organization. • Design scalable data architectures that support healthcare analytics and AI/ML workflows. • Automate data lineage tracking, governance documentation, and audit trails to support transparency and traceability. • Establish data lifecycle policies for retention, archiving, and disposal in accordance with regulatory and operational requirements. • Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to ensure data pipelines meet model training and inference requirements. • Architect and implement end-to-end AI pipelines using Agentic AI and GenAI frameworks. • Support the development of trustworthy AI by ensuring the use of reliable, consented, and well-governed data to ensure AI enabled solutions around Data Governance. • Partner with clinical informatics, compliance, IT, and analytics teams to align data engineering efforts with healthcare delivery goals and governance strategies. • Must be hands on Data quality, Data Governance tools, Databricks, Power BI • Experience in Azure Data Services (like Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, Purview, Azure Data Factory) and Power BI • Ability to lead, in solving technical issues while engaged with infrastructure and vendor support teams • Analyze current business practices, processes and procedures and identify opportunities for leveraging Microsoft Azure data & analytics PaaS services. • Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of quality, compliance, and innovation. • Oversee project delivery and ensure alignment with enterprise data governance objectives. • Bachelor's Degree • 8 + years of data management experience • Prior experience leading projects or teams • Strong experience on Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Validation & Certification, Data Quality, Metadata Management and Data Governance • Experience in Azure Data Services (like Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, Purview, Azure Data Factory) and Power BI, and in programming languages such as, PySpark/Python/SQL, etc. • Preferred experience in building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Kafka, Storm or Spark-Streaming • Experience in implementing AI based solutions in Data Governance space • Master's Degree • Experience in the healthcare industry is preferred Benefits • Competitive benefits and compensation package Company Overview • Molina Healthcare is a healthcare company that specializes in government-sponsored healthcare programs for families and individuals. It was founded in 1980, and is headquartered in Long Beach, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • Molina Healthcare has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 47 in 2025, 45 in 2024, 43 in 2023, 31 in 2022, 35 in 2021, 55 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job Apply tot his job