Senior Data Engineering Manager

Join Imperative Care as a Senior Data Engineering Manager, where you will lead the development of a modern data architecture and AI capability. You will design and own a semantic data platform, evaluate target architecture, implement data security and governance, and serve as a hands-on builder of AI agents and intelligent workflows. You will also empower business teams to self-serve analytics, collaborate with data and analytics teams, and act as an AI thought leader.

• Lead the design and implementation of Imperative Care's modern data architecture, including the semantic data warehouse and enterprise knowledge graph strategy.
• Architect, build, pilot, and deploy a unified data platform that connects key business systems and unstructured content into a governed, connected data layer.
• Serve as a hands-on builder for production AI agents and intelligent workflows, driving the development of practical agentic AI capabilities across the organization.

• Proven ability to deliver pilots and proofs-of-concept end-to-end and scale them into production
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, data engineering, or a related discipline and a minimum of 12 years of experience in data engineering / architecture, applied AI / ML, or enterprise application development; or an equivalent combination of education and related experience
• Experience should include a minimum of 2 years of progressive recent, hands-on experience building production generative-AI and agentic solutions (LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, orchestration, tool / function calling)
• Master’s degree preferred
• Demonstrated experience architecting modern data platforms—semantic layer and knowledge graph, and / or medallion / lakehouse—and integrating heterogeneous enterprise source systems and unstructured content
• Knowledge of data governance and security models, including RBAC / ABAC, and of bi-directional data sync and data-cleansing patterns
• Experience in or alongside regulated environments—GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, computer system validation (CSV / CSA), GAMP 5, and HIPAA—strongly preferred
• Cloud infrastructure hands-on knowledge; experience managing vendors / MSPs (SOWs, licensing, budgets) preferred
• Effective communicator across technical and business audiences