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InsuletCorporation, maker of theOmniPod, is the leader in tubeless insulinpump, transforming the lives of people with diabetes through innovation.We are seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead our Data Engineering Platform team in building andmaintainingthe world class Data and AI platform.Join a fast-paced, mission-driven medical device company where data plays a critical role in improving patient outcomes and operational excellence.

AsaSrManager,Data EngineerOperations,you'lllead a team of talented dataand platformengineers responsible for designing,buildingand delivering secure, scalable data platform serving directly to our internal and external stakeholders in Commercial, Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Productlaunchesand several other initiatives.We areseekinga highly technical, hands-onto serve as the principal owner and administrator of our enterpriseData Platform. In this role, you will lead the operational health, security, governance, and delivery pipelines of our Databricks environments.

You will bedirectly responsiblefor designing and enforcing security controls (RBAC/ABAC),establishingmature data governance frameworks utilizing DatabricksUnity Catalog, automating workspace deployment, and instillingDevSecOpspractices through robust CI/CD pipelines.

You'llbe a key contributororganizing and helping the team with managing the backlog of work items building in collaboration with technical leads and stakeholders for ourDatabricks-based data infrastructure, ensuring it meets the rigorous standards of the medical device industry. This is a unique opportunity to blend technicalexpertisewithproduct ownership, helping to drive innovation.

We offer a dynamic and collaborative work environment, where your attention to detail and passion for quality will directly influence product development, clinical insights, and operational efficiency. Ifyou'relooking for a role where your work truly matters-and whereyou'llgrow alongside a team of talented engineers and healthcare professionals-this is the place for you.

Responsibilities:

• Platform Governance & Unity CatalogManagement:Own the architecture, deployment, and daily management of DatabricksUnity Catalogacross dev, test, and production environments.

• Define and enforce catalog structures, schemas, external locations, storage credentials, and metadata tagging standards.

• Security & Access Control (RBAC/ABAC):Design and implement fine-grained access control policies using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC).

• Manage service principals, identity federation (IdP), system privileges, and securesecretsmanagement via cloud Key Vaults integrated into Databricks secret scopes.

• Workspace & InfrastructureAutomation:Oversee multi-workspace administration, including cluster policies, compute governance, runtime versions, and SQL Warehouses.

• Provision and scale workspaces programmatically using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools likeTerraform.

• CI/CD &DevSecOpsLifecycle:Build,optimize, andmaintainCI/CD workflows for data assets using modern DevOps tooling (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI).

• IncorporateDatabricks Asset Bundles (DABs)or Databricks CLI into pipelines to enable seamless code promotion, automated testing, and environment consistency.

• FinOps & PerformanceOptimization:Monitor platform usage, analyze audit logs, andestablishdashboards to track platform spend.

• Implement autoscaling policies, spot instance strategies, and cluster-sizing guardrails to control cloud spend withoutimpactingbusiness SLAs

• Team Leadership & OperationalReliability:Manage and mentor a small team of Platform Engineers/DataOpsanalysts while driving collaborative standards with downstream Data Engineering and AI/ML teams.

• Act as the primary incident manager for critical platform disruptions, defining SLIs/SLOs for data availability.

• Advanced AI Lifecycle Knowledge:Modern understanding of AI Agent architectures, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, and open integration protocols likeMCP (Model Context Protocol).

Education and Experience:

• Experience:10+ years in Data Operations, Platform Engineering, or Data Architecture, with a minimum of 5+ years specifically serving as a lead administrator/architect for enterprise-scaleDatabricksenvironments.

• Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or a closely related STEM field; or a BS with experience working with data technologies, is preferred

• Data Governance Expertise:Deep architectural knowledge ofUnity Catalog, including data lineage, row/column-level filtering, and external data shares (Delta Sharing).

• Security Acumen:Strong execution of cloud data security principles, including identity management, IAM policies, network security (VPC/VNetinjection, Private Links), and compliance regulations (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA, or GDPR).

• Automation &Tooling:Expert-level knowledge ofTerraformor cloud-native infrastructure automation.

• Programming & Big Data:Proficient with Python,PySpark, and SQL for pipeline optimization, custom platform alerting, and script automation.

• Education/Certifications:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.Preferred:Databricks Certified Platform Administrator or Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional.

• Experience in data quality assurance,controland lineage for large datasets inrelational/non-relationaldatabases

• Experience in medical device, healthcare, or manufacturing industries is desirable

• HIPAA experience a plus