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# Lead Data Engineer - Healthcare Data & Audience Applications at Zeta Global

- **Company:** Zeta Global
- **Location:** Nashville, TN
- **Posted:** 2026-04-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zetaglobal/jobs/5982747004

## Job description

## WHO WE ARE

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to [www.zetaglobal.com](https://www.zetaglobal.com).

## ROLE OVERVIEW

Zeta Global is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to build and scale healthcare-focused applications and data systems that power audience intelligence, activation, measurement, and reporting across both HCP and DTC workflows.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role operating at the intersection of distributed systems, data engineering, and healthcare domain constraints. You will design and deliver systems that integrate identity, audience data, and campaign performance while meeting strict requirements for privacy, compliance, and reliability.

The ideal candidate brings strong system design depth, experience building data-intensive platforms, and the ability to lead through architecture and execution in regulated environments.

## What You’ll Build

- Applications supporting HCP and patient / direct-to-consumer (DTC) audience discovery, segmentation, and activation
- Scalable data pipelines for ingestion, normalization, and enrichment of healthcare datasets
- Identity resolution and data linkage services across fragmented data sources
- Reporting, attribution, and measurement systems connecting campaigns to outcomes
- APIs and services enabling downstream activation, analytics, and partner integrations
- Healthcare Cloud and data-mapping architecture across claims/Rx, NPI/HCP, patient, media-exposure, brand, and connector datasets.
- Healthcare-specific semantic cubes, governed views, data contracts, and domain APIs consumed by Vertical Apps; front-end applications should consume stable domain APIs rather than query raw stores or Cube directly.
- Identity resolution, match-rate measurement, medical-code mapping, and approved joins under CERT/HIPAA rules.
- Foundational data products for NPI onboarding, PLD reporting, script reporting, HCP/Patient intelligence, journeys, and Next Best Action.

## Key Responsibilities

- Define and maintain the healthcare data architecture, interface contracts, ADRs, schemas, and staged delivery plan.
- Lead ingestion and transformation patterns across Snowflake, Athena/S3, MySQL, and approved healthcare stores without duplicating shared platform capabilities.
- Partner with Data Cloud on source certification, partner-feed contracts, identity validation, raw-zone ownership, and data availability SLAs.
- Design healthcare base/vertical models and published/governed views, with row/member-level controls, account scoping, masking, and backward-compatible versioning.
- Set SLOs and operational readiness criteria; ensure dashboards, alerts, runbooks, rollback paths, and incident ownership are in place before release.
- Lead design and code reviews, mentor the Senior Data Engineer, and coordinate dependencies across the pod.
- Support compliance evidence, annual audits, US data-residency controls, and stoplight decisions: Start, Stop, or Requires CERT.
- Apply privacy-by-design principles across all systems handling PHI/PII
- Partner with Product and Data teams to translate healthcare requirements into scalable architectures
- Drive engineering best practices across testing, CI/CD, code quality, and operational excellence

Engineering Expectations

- Strong experience designing distributed systems, including microservices and event-driven architectures
- Deep understanding of data modeling, storage systems (OLTP and OLAP), and data-processing frameworks
- Experience with streaming and batch processing technologies, such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, or similar tools
- Proficiency in backend development using Python, Java, or Ruby, as well as API design using REST or gRPC
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools, such as Apache Airflow
- Experience working with data warehouses and lakehouse platforms, such as Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure as code
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience implementing observability practices, including logging, metrics, and tracing, as well as reliability patterns
- Strong understanding of performance optimization and scalability trade-offs

Healthcare & Domain Expectations

- Experience working with HCP data (provider identity, targeting, segmentation)
- Experience with patient / DTC data workflows and privacy-aware systems
- Understanding of healthcare data ecosystems (claims, provider, or audience datasets)
- Familiarity with identity graphs and data onboarding patterns
- Experience building reporting or attribution systems tied to business outcomes
- Strong grasp of HIPAA, PHI/PII, and regulated data handling requirements
- Technical standards for lineage, data quality, access control, masking, retention, auditability, observability, and cost.

## Qualifications

- 8+ years of data engineering experience with increasing technical ownership
- Expert SQL and strong Python, Java; experience with batch and streaming patterns, orchestration, testing, and schema evolution.
- Proven track record of building and scaling data-intensive or distributed systems
- Experience working in regulated environments (healthcare strongly preferred)
- Strong system design and architecture skills
- Ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on in implementation
- Strong collaboration skills across engineering, product, and data teams

## Preferred

- Experience with healthcare data providers or identity ecosystems
- Background in AdTech, MarTech, or audience/data platforms
- Experience with privacy-enhancing technologies (tokenization, clean rooms)
- Exposure to ML/AI-driven data products or analytics systems

## BENEFITS & PERKS

- Unlimited PTO
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employee Equity
- Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance And more!!

## SALARY RANGE

The salary range for this role is $180,000 - $200,000, depending on location and experience.

## PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA

Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

We’re committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. We provide a forum for employees to celebrate, support and advocate for one another. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion here:  https://zetaglobal.com/blog/a-look-into-zetas-ergs/

ZETA IN THE NEWS!

https://zetaglobal.com/press/?cat=press-releases

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## About Zeta Global

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zeta Global is an AI-powered marketing cloud platform that unifies identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation to help enterprise brands acquire, grow, and retain customers.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: ZETA)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: David A. Steinberg and John Sculley (former Apple CEO and Pepsi President)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Marketing technology (MarTech), Advertising technology (AdTech), Artificial Intelligence
- Target customers: Enterprise brands and scaled enterprises (defined as customers generating at least $100,000 in trailing twelve-month revenue); over 450 such customers across diverse verticals
- Mission or purpose statement: "Accelerate Brand Growth" by enabling brands to build repeatable and scalable programs that drive higher ROI on marketing investments

## Products & Services
- **Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP)**: The core omnichannel marketing platform that leverages proprietary AI and trillions of consumer signals. It unifies identity, intelligence, and activation into a single platform, enabling personalized experiences across email, social media, web, SMS, connected TV, video, and more.
- **Athena by Zeta™**: An agentic AI solution that puts AI at the center of every marketing decision, enabling automated workflows, spend optimization, and scaling of impact across the customer journey.
- **Data & Analytics**: A proprietary opt-in database of unique global identifiers, providing deterministic attribution, real-time intent data, and interest/intent audiences for precise targeting and measurable outcomes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Publicly traded on NYSE; market cap fluctuates (latest data not specified in search results)
- **Key Metric**: Over 450 scaled enterprise customers; over 1,700 employees globally (as of investor relations page), with recent headcount exceeding 2,000 (as of life-at-Zeta page)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Co-founded by John Sculley (former Apple CEO); recent strategic partnership announced with Palantir (June 2026) to build unified data and AI infrastructure for marketing
- **Growth Signals**: Strategic partnership with Palantir; launch of Athena by Zeta™ for agencies; consistent expansion of enterprise customer base; global office presence across 12+ locations

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Identity Data**: One of the industry’s largest proprietary opt-in databases, providing a unique foundation for deterministic attribution and real-time intent targeting.
- **Unified Platform**: Combines identity, intelligence, and activation into a single platform, eliminating the need for multiple point solutions and vendor silos—directly addressing a key pain point for CMOs.
- **AI-First Approach**: Leverages advanced AI and agentic AI (Athena) to automate and optimize marketing workflows, making sophisticated marketing simple and scalable.
- **Founding Leadership**: Co-founded by a former Apple CEO, bringing deep industry credibility and strategic vision.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI and Automation**: Deepening investment in agentic AI (Athena by Zeta) to automate marketing decisions and workflows, reducing manual effort for marketers.
- **Partnership Ecosystem**: Expanding strategic partnerships (e.g., Palantir) to build unified data and AI infrastructure, opening new capabilities for enterprise clients.
- **Agency Channel**: Bringing Athena by Zeta to agencies, extending the platform’s reach beyond direct enterprise customers.
- **Global Expansion**: Maintaining and growing a global footprint with offices in the US, India, Europe, and South America to serve multinational clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes "Achieving the Impossible™" with virtues like "Curiosity Beats Certainty," "Fearless Exploration," "Always Learning," and "Humanize." The culture is described as collaborative, innovative, and supportive of individual growth.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for LGBTQIA+, women, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian & Pacific Islander, Black community, neurodiverse employees, and sustainability-focused groups.
- **Work Policy**: Offers hybrid and remote work options, with in-office events and virtual engagement. Specific policies vary by role and location.
- **Benefits**: Competitive pay equity, 401k with company match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible time off, generous parental leave, wellness programs (Caravan app, gym discounts), commuter benefits, and adoption assistance. In the US, includes medical, dental, vision, STD/LTD, life insurance. EMEA offices offer pensions, work-from-home allowances, and lunch vouchers.
- **Career Growth**: Emphasizes "Always Learning" as a core virtue, with opportunities for mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and internal mobility. Hiring process includes a first chat with Talent, team interviews, and an onboarding program designed for connection.
- **Global Presence**: Opportunity to work in major hubs like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Paris, Prague, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and more.

## Sources
1. [Zeta Global Official Site](https://zetaglobal.com/)
2. [Zeta Global - Our Story and Mission](https://zetaglobal.com/about/our-story/)
3. [Zeta Global - Benefits and Hiring](https://zetaglobal.com/about/benefits-and-hiring/)
4. [Zeta Global - Investor Relations](https://investors.zetaglobal.com/overview/default.aspx)
5. [Zeta Global - Life at Zeta](https://zetaglobal.com/about/life-at-zeta/)
6. [Zeta Global - Careers Page (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zetaglobal)

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