Lead and scale the data engineering team to design, implement, and maintain cloud data warehouses, robust ETL/ELT pipelines, data sharing/integration, and BI tooling. Drive roadmap prioritization, recruitment, best practices, governance, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver secure, compliant data solutions that enable analytics and product teams.
About Lyra Health
Lyra Health is the leading provider of mental health solutions for employers supporting more than 20 million people globally. The company has delivered 13 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 20 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness and cost efficiency. Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs. Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.
About the Role:
We are seeking a visionary and results-oriented Director, Data Engineering to lead and scale our growing team of talented data engineers. In this critical leadership role, you will be responsible for driving the strategy, implementation, and deployment of cutting-edge data solutions across our core data infrastructure for internal and external stakeholders. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our data warehouse, data pipelines, data sharing, data integration, BI tooling, and delivering significant business value through the innovative application of modern data technologies.
Lyra is for you if you:
- Want to work with brilliant people solving hard problems
- Have a passion for social impact and helping people when they are most vulnerable
- Enjoy collaborating across teams with data scientists, analysts, operations and product managers.
Responsibilities
- Be a hands-on technical visionary leader for the data engineering team responsible for solutioning, designing, implementing, reviewing, and deploying core functionality to support our data warehouse, data pipelines, data sharing, data integration and BI tools strategy.
- Manage, scale, and mentor the data engineering team along with leading the recruitment efforts to attract and retain top data engineering talent.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize top business initiatives and develop corresponding solutions and a strategic roadmap.
- Identify and evaluate emerging data engineering technologies and trends, and determine their potential application within the organization.
- Manage resource allocation and bi-weekly sprint planning.
- Advocate for and drive the adoption of best practices in data engineering development, deployment, and data governance.
- Work closely with the data science, analytics, and operations teams to develop user-friendly data solutions that comply with established data governance guidelines.
Qualifications
- 5+ years working as an engineering lead/manager focused on data engineering and implementation of a modern data stack strategy in a large scale environment.
- A track record of leading and scaling data engineering teams
- Experience architecting robust, fault-tolerant data pipelines with solid logging, alerting, and data validation—not just simple scripts
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing data warehouses using modern cloud databases like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks
- Hands-on experience in SQL-based data modeling with a focus on governance and enabling self serve using a development framework such as DBT
- Experience implementing integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions like Workato, Mulesoft, or Talend.
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker or Sigma
- Experience working with sensitive data in a healthcare or similarly regulated environment
- A thoughtful approach to balancing quality and deadlines in fast-paced settings
- Excellent communication skills with a talent for building consensus and alignment
- Strong communication skills and ability to generate consensus and buy-in within cross team and stakeholders
- Organizational skills and the ability to simplify complex problems and prioritize what matters most for the sake of the team and the business.
"We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or any other category protected by law.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed as per the Lyra Health Workforce Privacy Notice. Through this application, to the extent permitted by law, we will collect personal information from you including, but not limited to, your name, email address, gender identity, employment information, and phone number for the purposes of recruiting and assessing suitability, aptitude, skills, qualifications, and interests for employment with Lyra. We may also collect information about your race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, which is considered sensitive personal information under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and special category data under the UK and EU GDPR. Providing this information is optional and completely voluntary, and if you provide it you consent to Lyra processing it for the purposes as described at the point of collection, for example for diversity and inclusion initiatives. If you are a California resident and would like to limit how we use this information, please use the Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information form. This information will only be retained for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as described above. Please note that Lyra does not “sell” or “share” personal information as defined by the CPRA. Outside of the United States, for example in the EU, Switzerland and the UK, you may have the right to request access to, or a copy of, your personal information, including in a portable format; request that we delete your information from our systems; object to or restrict processing of your information; or correct inaccurate or outdated personal information in our systems. These rights may be subject to legal limitations. To exercise your data privacy rights outside of the United States, please contact [email protected]. For more information about how we use and retain your information, please see our Workforce Privacy Notice."
Top Skills
BigQuery
Databricks
Dbt
Looker
Mulesoft
Sigma
Snowflake
SQL
Tableau
Talend
Workato
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