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

- **Company:** Zeta Global
- **Location:** Nashville, TN
- **Posted:** 2026-08-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zetaglobal/jobs/6139713004

## 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 Senior Data Engineer to build reliable, scalable data pipelines and data products for a healthcare vertical. You will be a hands-on engineer who turns complex healthcare and marketing datasets into trusted foundations for audience discovery, segmentation, activation, reporting, and measurement.

Working closely with the engineering and product team, you will help implement the team's data architecture and engineering standards while owning significant parts of the delivery lifecycle. You will contribute to well-designed, production-ready systems—not define the overall architecture or technical roadmap alone.

## Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate production-grade pipelines for healthcare, identity, audience, media-exposure, and campaign-performance data using Python, SQL, Airflow, S3, Snowflake, and EMR.
- Implement maintainable data models, transformations, governed views, and reusable datasets for provider identity, claims/Rx, NPI/HCP, media, brand, and connector data.
- Deliver data products that support HCP and patient/DTC audience discovery, segmentation, activation, measurement, and reporting.
- Build Airflow workflows with clear dependencies, retries, alerting, data-quality checks, and operational runbooks; use EMR for large-scale enrichment, normalization, and other compute-intensive workloads.
- Write efficient SQL across Snowflake, Hive, and Athena, adapting to platform-specific syntax and query behavior.
- Partner with product, analytics, data science, and platform teams to translate business and healthcare requirements into resilient technical solutions.
- Implement data-quality controls, reconciliation checks, monitoring, alerting, and incident-response practices for critical data products.
- Support data onboarding and integration for healthcare partners and internal sources, including validation, normalization, and source-to-target mapping.
- Apply privacy-by-design practices for PHI/PII, including access controls, masking, approved joins, retention, and auditability.
- Collaborate with the Lead Data Engineer on technical designs, code reviews, documentation, and delivery plans; mentor less-experienced engineers as needed.
- Troubleshoot production issues and improve pipeline performance, reliability, and observability over time.

Core Technical Environment

- Data storage & warehouse: Snowflake Native and Amazon S3.
- Orchestration: Apache Airflow for general pipeline setup and scheduling.
- Heavy processing: Amazon EMR for targeted, compute-intensive jobs.
- Programming: Python for Airflow pipelines and supporting data engineering services.
- Querying: SQL in Snowflake, Hive, and Athena.

## Qualifications

- 5–8 years of hands-on data engineering experience, including ownership of production pipelines and data models, with experience working with healthcare data such as provider/HCP, claims, prescription, patient/DTC, or healthcare audience datasets.
- Strong Python and expert SQL skills, with demonstrated experience building transformations, optimizing queries, and diagnosing data issues.
- Hands-on experience with AWS data services, especially S3, and a modern cloud data warehouse; experience with Snowflake, Airflow, and EMR is strongly preferred.
- Experience with data modeling, schema evolution, batch processing, orchestration, testing, CI/CD, and production support practices.
- Proven ability to work with large, complex datasets and deliver reliable, well-documented data products.
- Deep, practical knowledge of HIPAA, PHI/PII handling, privacy-by-design controls, and the operational requirements of regulated healthcare data environments.
- Experience with AdTech/MarTech, identity resolution, audience onboarding, segmentation, data linkage, media measurement, attribution, or campaign reporting.
- Ability to balance healthcare privacy constraints with the need for timely, accurate audience and performance insights.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, analytics, and business stakeholders.

## Preferred

- Experience with healthcare data providers, identity ecosystems, tokenization, clean rooms, or privacy-enhancing technologies.
- Experience with data cataloging, lineage, observability, and data-quality frameworks.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, infrastructure as code, and cloud deployment workflows.
- Experience supporting reporting, attribution, or measurement products tied to campaign or business outcomes.
- Exposure to ML/AI-enabled data products or analytics workflows.

## 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 $140,000 - $160,000, 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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