--- title: 'Lead Data Engineer at Cohere Health' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-data-engineer-cohere-health-hyderabad-jrdrxe7b9agp' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Lead Data Engineer at Cohere Health - **Company:** Cohere Health - **Location:** Hyderabad, India - **Posted:** 2026-06-16 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coherehealth/jobs/7695996003 ## Job description Opportunity Overview: We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to drive the design and delivery of our cloud-native healthcare data platform. You will lead the implementation of scalable data solutions built on AWS, Apache Iceberg, Lake Formation, Glue Catalog, Athena, dbt, and modern orchestration frameworks. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership and collaboration across platform, analytics, and business teams. What you’ll do: - Lead Data Engineering Initiatives - Lead delivery of complex data engineering projects across multiple teams - Drive technical execution from design through production deployment - Establish scalable implementation patterns Build and Optimize Data Platforms - Design and implement batch and near-real-time pipelines - Build reusable ingestion, transformation, validation, and publishing frameworks - Support modernization of legacy workloads Lakehouse Engineering - Lead Apache Iceberg implementation and optimization - Define standards for schema evolution, partitioning, compaction, and metadata management - Ensure efficient storage and query performance Data Quality and Reliability - Implement data quality frameworks - Drive observability and monitoring practices - Improve operational excellence and reliability Technical Leadership - Review architecture and design proposals - Conduct code reviews and engineering reviews - Mentor engineers and establish best practices ISMS roles and responsibilities: - Good knowledge of Information practices. - Assist the manager in all the information security activities implementation and maintenance process. - Ensuring the  team and imparted with Competence related to Information security - Responsible for implementation of security policies and procedures and report any issues to the Information Security Manager. Required Qualifications: - 8–12 years of Data Engineering experience. - Experience leading enterprise-scale data initiatives Cloud Technologies - AWS S3, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation - IAM and security controls Modern Data Stack - Apache Iceberg (preferred) - Delta Lake / Hudi • dbt • Airflow or Step FunctionsProgramming - Python - SQL - PySpark / Spark Ability to commute/relocate: - Hyderabad, Telangana: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred) Interview Process*: - Connect with Talent Acquisition - Meet with the Hiring Manager - Behavioral Interview(s) - Case Study - Interview with Senior Leadership *Subject to change About Cohere Health: Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs, optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of care. With an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making across the care continuum–including policy, prior authorization, payment accuracy, and more–the company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction. With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we expanded our AI-native platform with a comprehensive Payment Integrity Suite that spans data mining, clinical and coding validation, authorization and claims reconciliation, and end-to-end payment integrity services across pre- and post-pay workflows. By connecting clinical and payment insights, our transparent, AI-powered solutions help health plans proactively improve payment accuracy, reduce waste and vendor dependency, strengthen provider relationships, and build smarter, more efficient payment integrity programs. Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been recognized on TIME’s World Top HealthTech Companies 2025 list, the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024. We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health! Equal Opportunity Statement: Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all.  To us, it’s personal. ## About Cohere Health ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Cohere Health provides an AI-powered clinical intelligence platform that automates prior authorization, payment integrity, and care management for health plans. - **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, funding details not publicly available) - **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA (with a second office in Hyderabad, India) - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Healthcare technology (health plan operations, utilization management, payment integrity) - **Target Customers**: B2B – health plans (insurers), providers, and physician groups - **Mission**: Simplify healthcare by enabling patients, physicians, and health plans to efficiently collaborate on getting the right care at the right time, place, and value. ## Products & Services - **[Cohere Unify™ Platform](https://www.coherehealth.com/)**: A unified clinical intelligence platform that connects utilization management, payment integrity, appeals, care management, quality, and claims operations. It uses domain-specific AI to digitize care requests, automate prior authorization (85% real-time approvals), shift payment integrity upstream, and improve decision accuracy. Type: SaaS/Platform. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; operational metrics include 94% provider satisfaction, 70% faster patient access to care, 63% lower denial rates, and 18x ROI for prior authorization. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources - **Growth Signals**: - Named a 2025 Built Best Place to Work and one of "150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare." - Employees span 47 U.S. states and India, fluent in over a dozen languages. - Claims auditor and data science teams actively hiring across multiple roles (67 open positions as of search date). ## Competitive Advantages - **Domain-specific AI** trained on proprietary clinical context, enabling high real-time approval rates (85%) and low provider abrasion. - **Connected intelligence** across multiple health plan workflows (UM, payment integrity, appeals, quality, claims) from a single platform, reducing silos. - **Human-in-the-loop** design ensures clinical oversight for the remaining 15% of prior authorization submissions. - Proven ROI: 5x ROI for utilization management, 8–9x for payment integrity, and 18x for prior authorization. ## Strategic Focus - Expand platform capabilities to further automate and streamline health plan operations, with emphasis on medex risk management and upstream payment integrity. - Maintain remote-first US culture while expanding India-based engineering and operations teams. - Continue investing in AI and machine learning to improve decision accuracy and audit efficiency. ## Why Work Here - **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: US team is 100% remote with a physical office in Boston available for voluntary use; India team works in-office in Hyderabad. - **Benefits**: Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance, 401(k) with employer match, up to 23 days PTO + holidays, up to 14 weeks paid parental leave, pet insurance, and employee assistance program. - **Culture**: Values-driven (humility, rethink status quo, purpose drives performance, connect collaborate cohere). Emphasis on mission-driven work that directly impacts patient care. - **Career Development**: Manager/leadership training, bi-annual promotion cycles, internal mobility, and learning opportunities. - **Recognition**: Awarded "Best Places to Work" and "Top Places to Work in Healthcare" in 2025. ## Sources 1. [Cohere Health Careers](https://www.coherehealth.com/careers) 2. [Cohere Health Homepage](https://www.coherehealth.com/) 3. [Our Story – Cohere Health](https://www.coherehealth.com/our-story) 4. [Cohere Health LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coherehealth) 5. 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