Director of Data Platform & Data Lake in at Ellkay LLC

ELLKAY started out providing connectivity solutions to laboratories and within a few years, grew to also provide data management solutions to ambulatory organizations. ELLKAY is now a trusted data management partner in five healthcare segments. ELLKAY’s solutions continue to serve laboratories and ambulatory practices and have expanded to empower hospitals and health systems, healthcare IT vendors, ambulatory practices, health plans, and other healthcare organizations with cutting-edge technologies and solutions that drive their growth and interoperability strategies.

Today, ELLKAY remains true to our core values, building strong partner relationships and offering unparalleled service and support while providing innovative, scalable solutions to the challenges our customers face in today’s data-rich world.

ELLKAY's experience, customer-focused approach, and reputation for innovation, speed, and accuracy differentiate ELLKAY as a premier partner for your interoperability needs and data management strategy.

Job Description:

We are seeking a Director of Data Platform & Data Lake to own the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operation of ELLKAY’s enterprise healthcare data platform. This leader will establish the roadmap for a secure, scalable, governed, and AI-ready data foundation supporting data ingestion, integration, storage, transformation, analytics, and downstream products.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the Data Platform and Data Lake strategy and multiyear roadmap.
• Lead platform architecture, engineering standards, data governance, security, observability, reliability, and cost optimization.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of platform leads, data engineers, and supporting specialists.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Compliance, Operations, and client-facing teams.
• Establish reusable ingestion and processing patterns for clinical, financial, operational, and other healthcare data.
• Improve data quality, lineage, metadata management, access controls, and lifecycle management.
• Establish platform SLAs, engineering metrics, capacity planning, and incident-management practices.
• Reduce duplicated solutions and enable faster delivery of analytics, interoperability, AI, and customer-facing data capabilities.
• Ensure the platform meets applicable privacy, security, audit, and regulatory requirements

Additional Information:

ELLKAY is committed to fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment that supports innovation, teamwork, and professional growth. Most roles are designed to operate from our office locations to encourage effective collaboration and engagement across teams.
Any alternative work arrangements may be considered at the company’s discretion based on role requirements and business needs.
For more information about our company, please visit www.ELLKAY.com.
ELLKAY is a Smoke-Free Workplace.

ELLKAY, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.