Lead Data & Software Engineer

Ovative Group•Minneapolis, MN

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Ovative Group is hiring a Lead Data & Software Engineer as the technical leader for its client delivery team, which launches clients on EMRge and supports them after launch. The role sets technical strategy and priorities for client delivery, represents delivery’s technical needs to Product teams and senior stakeholders, and provides hands-on engineering leadership on high-impact or ambiguous work. The engineer owns delivery-platform architecture, establishes engineering standards, guides and mentors the team, and serves as a technical escalation point for difficult client situations. The position is classified among Ovative’s Sr. Manager positions for compensation purposes. Work is based from the Minneapolis, Chicago, or New York office on set days each week, with remote work available on other days.

Requirements

At least 7 years of data and software engineering experience.
Expert-level SQL and Python skills.
Deep experience designing data platforms and pipelines at scale.
Experience with a major cloud platform, ideally GCP or Azure.
Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration, including tools, agents, and workflows.
Proven ability to influence Product teams and senior stakeholders and shape what gets built.
Experience mentoring engineers and raising a team’s technical bar.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Databricks and Dagster.
History of taking proofs of concept to production or deciding not to.
Experience owning data architecture for a platform area.
Experience with marketing, analytics, or customer data.
Experience on a client delivery, implementation, or professional services team.

Responsibilities

Set technical strategy for client delivery and identify rollout bottlenecks and priorities for improvement.
Prioritize improvements to the client-facing platform’s speed, reliability, and usability.
Represent client delivery’s technical needs to Product teams; translate field experience into requirements, shape designs, and challenge designs that will not work in practice.
Own delivery-platform architecture and make decisions about patterns, tooling, and trade-offs, including the use of Dagster and Databricks.
Select and lead important proofs of concept, and recommend whether to productize or discontinue them.
Drive system-level fixes for problems that recur across clients.
Define and model engineering standards for testing, security, deployment, and documentation.
Mentor engineers through design reviews and direct coaching.
Serve as the technical escalation point for the most difficult client situations and represent the team to client-facing and executive leaders.
Evaluate new tools and technologies, including AI development practices, and decide what the team adopts.
Write code for the most critical or ambiguous work.

Benefits

Annual bonus opportunity of up to 25% of base salary.
Competitive health insurance options, inclusive of same-sex partners.
Generous paid vacation policy.
401(k) match program.
Family formation benefits, including reimbursement options for fertility, pregnancy, and parenting needs.
Monthly stipend for mobile phone and data plan.
Sabbatical program.
Charitable giving through time and a financial match program.
Access to office spaces in Minneapolis, New York City, and Chicago.
Frequent paid travel to the Minneapolis headquarters for company and team events and in-person collaboration.
Shenigan’s Day.