AVP, Data Engineering (Enablement)

Thank you for considering a career at Ensemble!

Ensemble is a leading provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management solutions for health systems, including hospitals and affiliated physician groups. They offer end-to-end revenue cycle solutions as well as a comprehensive suite of point solutions to clients across the country.

Ensemble keeps communities healthy by keeping hospitals healthy. We recognize that healthcare requires a human touch, and we believe that every touch should be meaningful. This is why our people are the most important part of who we are. By empowering them to challenge the status quo, we know they will be the difference!

O.N.E Purpose:

• Customer Obsession: Consistently provide exceptional experiences for our clients, patients, and colleagues by understanding their needs and exceeding their expectations.

• Embracing New Ideas: Continuously innovate by embracing emerging technology and fostering a culture of creativity and experimentation.

• Striving for Excellence: Execute at a high level by demonstrating our “Best in KLAS” Ensemble Difference Principles and consistently delivering outstanding results.

The Opportunity:

As the AVP of Data Engineering (Enablement), you will own and evolve Ensemble’s enterprise data platform and data product strategy to enable analytics at scale and establish a strong foundation for AI‑driven capabilities across the organization. You will lead the design and execution of a cloud‑native data platform built on Azure and Databricks, enabling trusted, governed, and reusable data products that accelerate insight generation, operational automation, and emerging AI use cases. This role is responsible for translating business and product strategy into scalable data platform capabilities — ensuring data is AI‑ready, secure, observable, cost‑efficient, and consumable by analytics, product, and machine learning teams. Success in this role will be measured by platform adoption, data trust, delivery velocity, and the organization’s readiness to operationalize AI.

Job Competencies

• Establish and evolve a data platform architecture that enables AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics workloads, including feature readiness, training data quality, lineage, and observability.
• Partner with Data Science, Analytics, Product, and Cloud teams to ensure data platforms support model development, deployment, and monitoring without creating operational or governance risk.
• Define and enforce AI-ready data standards, including data quality thresholds, metadata, schema stability, timeliness, and explainability requirements.

Data Products & Platform Enablement

• Treat enterprise datasets as data products, with clear ownership, quality guarantees, documentation, and usage metrics.
• Build and evangelize a reusable data product layer that enables self-service analytics and accelerates downstream innovation. · Define platform-level KPIs (adoption, reliability, cost efficiency, time-to-data) and continuously improve based on measurable outcomes.

Data Governance Trust & Observability

• Implement governance-by-design, including data lineage, access controls, privacy protections, and auditability across the data platform.
• Ensure data pipelines and data products meet healthcare regulatory and compliance expectations, with strong controls around PHI and sensitive data.
• Champion data observability, including data quality monitoring, freshness SLAs, pipeline reliability, and cost transparency.

Employment Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of professionally related experience
• Masters Degree or Equivalent Experience
• 10+ years of coding experience with ANSI SQL.
• 3+ years working with big data technologies including but not limited to Databricks, SPARK,
• Azure, Power BI, with a willingness and ability to learn new ones
• Excellent understanding of engineering fundamentals: testing automation, code reviews,
• telemetry, iterative delivery and DevOps
• Experience with polyglot storage architectures including relational, columnar, key-value, graph
• or equivalent
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical, globally
• distributed audiences
• Solid foundations in formal architecture, design patterns and best practices
• Experience designing data platforms that support AI/ML, advanced analytics, or intelligent
• automation workloads.
• Deep experience with Azure cloud services and Databricks, including Spark-based data
• engineering patterns.
• Experience operating data platforms in regulated or healthcare environments (HIPAA, PHI, data
• privacy) strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to translate business and clinical domain needs into scalable data solutions.

Leadership Decision Making: Makes day-to-day leadership decisions by securing and comparing information from multiple sources to identify issues; commits to an action after weighing alternative solutions against important criteria; effectively communicates decisions to the appropriate people and teams and holds them accountable. Drives results.

Coaching & Building Talent: Achieves results through other leaders by empowering them and providing feedback, instruction and development (coaching the coach) to develop their own associates; plans and supports the growth of individual skills and abilities in preparation for their next role (building bench); focuses on retention of high performers.

Delegation: Successfully shares authority and responsibilities with others to move decision making and accountability downward through the organization while accomplishing strategic priorities; maintains personal ownership of outcomes without excessive involvement.

Leading Teams: Inspires and sustains team unity and engagement by developing, motivating, and guiding the team to achieve results together through productive relationships and work.

Executive Communication: Clearly and succinctly conveys information and ideas; communicates in a focused and compelling way that captures and holds others’ attention (appropriate, impactful, and clear).

Program/Project Management: Demonstrates high accountability and responsibility for projects and programs from inception through completion/implementation; manages budget and resource planning

and awareness to ensure maximized output, reduced waste and exceptional results.

Customer Obsession: Consistently provide exceptional experiences for our clients, patients, and colleagues by understanding their needs and exceeding their expectations.

Embracing New Ideas: Continuously innovate by embracing emerging technology and fostering a

culture of creativity and experimentation.

Striving for Excellence: Execute at a high level by demonstrating our “Best in KLAS” Ensemble Difference Principles and consistently delivering outstanding results. AI & Advanced Analytics Enablement

Join an award-winning company

Five-time winner of “Best in KLAS” 2020-2022, 2024-2025

Black Book Research's Top Revenue Cycle Management Outsourcing Solution 2021-2024

22 Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) MAP Awards for High Performance in Revenue Cycle 2019-2024

Leader in Everest Group's RCM Operations PEAK Matrix Assessment 2024

Clarivate Healthcare Business Insights (HBI) Revenue Cycle Awards for strong performance 2020, 2022-2023

Energage Top Workplaces USA 2022-2024

Fortune Media Best Workplaces in Healthcare 2024

Monster Top Workplace for Remote Work 2024

Great Place to Work certified 2023-2024

• Innovation

• Work-Life Flexibility

• Leadership

• Purpose + Values

Bottom line, we believe in empowering people and giving them the tools and resources needed to thrive. A few of those include:

• Associate Benefits –  We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial health of you and your family, including healthcare, time off, retirement, and well-being programs. 

• Our Culture – Ensemble is a place where associates can do their best work and be their best selves. We put people first, last and always. Our culture is rooted in collaboration, growth, and innovation.  

• Growth – We invest in your professional development. Each associate will earn a professional certification relevant to their field and can obtain tuition reimbursement. 

• Recognition – We offer quarterly and annual incentive programs for all employees who go beyond and keep raising the bar for themselves and the company. 

Ensemble is an equal employment opportunity employer. It is our policy not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.  Ensemble also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.

Ensemble provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law. If you require accommodation in the application process, please contact TA@ensemblehp.com.

This posting addresses state specific requirements to provide pay transparency.  Compensation decisions consider many job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location; knowledge; skills; relevant experience; education; licensure; internal equity; time in position.  A candidate entry rate of pay does not typically fall at the minimum or maximum of the role’s range.

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