Director of Engineering, Data

Allara•New York, NY

6d•$220,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Allara is hiring its first Director of Data to build the backbone of how the company collects, models, governs, and uses data. This hands-on leadership role reports to the VP of Engineering. In the first months, the director will work directly on pipelines, improve ETL, consolidate duplicated logic, and close source-data gaps. Over time, the director will define and drive the company’s data strategy, set standards for the organization, and grow the data function as Allara scales. The role combines strategic ownership with hands-on execution, with hands-on work taking priority initially. The position is described as hybrid in New York City, with at least three days per week in the NYC office as the target and flexibility as needed. The posting also states that the role may be 100% remote within the U.S. or three-day hybrid in NYC. The director will make company data trustworthy, establish a reliable and traceable source of truth, and define a strategy for scaling data use, including AI-assisted analysis and using health data to improve outcomes. They will build and lead the data engineering function and partner with Product, Growth, Finance, Strategy, and Clinical as owner of the shared data platform and standards.

Requirements

8+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering, including direct, recent ownership of production ETL and warehouse modeling.
Strong SQL skills and experience with a cloud warehouse; Snowflake is preferred.
Experience with ETL tooling and a transformation and modeling layer.
Proven ability to take over brittle, duplicated, or undocumented pipelines and make them reliable, documented, and trusted.
Strong data modeling fundamentals and a bias toward establishing a single source of truth.
Experience designing data governance and handling sensitive data, with comfort around security and access control in a regulated environment.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare or HIPAA experience, including familiarity with EMR data (FHIR) and claims.
Experience with D2C growth metrics.
Experience with Amplitude and product event taxonomy.
Experience enabling AI- or LLM-assisted analytics, such as semantic layers, metric catalogs, or Claude skills.
Experience building and managing a data team at a high-growth startup (Series B to D).

Responsibilities

Audit and improve existing ETL pipelines across Fivetran and Mozart into Snowflake, stabilizing reliability and freshness and fixing brittle processes.
Consolidate duplicated models, metrics, and transformation logic into a single, well-documented modeling layer.
Map collected data against business needs and close source-data gaps across systems.
Establish data-quality testing, monitoring, and alerting.
Define a canonical metric and semantic layer to establish a source of truth.
Shape Allara’s data strategy for collecting, modeling, governing, and using data as the company scales; advise leadership on tooling, investments, and build-versus-buy decisions.
Own data governance, access control, and PHI and PII handling appropriate for a HIPAA-covered healthcare environment.
Own the shared data platform and standards, support departmental stakeholders and analysts, and enable trustworthy self-serve analytics.
Own the shared AI-ready data layer and canonical terminology definitions and skills that power AI-assisted analysis across departments.
Hire, mentor, and lead the data engineering function over time, setting its technical bar and practices.
Partner with Product, Growth, Finance, Strategy, and Clinical as the owner of the shared data platform and standards.

Benefits

Equity.
Professional development and employee learning programs.
Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision.
Generous paid time off and additional wellness and professional development perks.
Unlimited PTO and 11 company holidays, or L1 offerings.
Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
Long- and short-term disability coverage.
Annual employee wellness stipend.
401(k) plan.
Parental leave and family planning support benefits.
Company-issued laptop.
Annual work-from-home stipend.
Commuter benefits, if applicable.