Principal Data Engineer, R&D

Onsite data engineering leadership role in Irvine, CA, focusing on defining data architecture and platform strategy across IHFM product areas; salary range USD 121,000–171,000 per year.

Responsibilities

• Shape the data architecture and platform strategy spanning multiple IHFM product domains.
• Tackle the most complex and ambiguous data engineering challenges, addressing suite-level interoperability and scaling device data.
• Collaborate with Technical Data Product Managers and Data Intelligence and Engineering leadership to influence the roadmap.
• Establish standards for ingestion, modeling, governance, lineage, quality, data products, data contracts, and SLAs that govern the data platform.
• Define how validated, traceable, and integrity-preserving data pipelines are engineered across the platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a scientific field plus six or more years of related data engineering experience.
• Proven experience in data platform architecture, distributed processing, and large-scale data modeling, including modern platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.
• Deep experience with data governance, validation, and integrity in a regulated environment.

Technologies

• Databricks
• Snowflake
• Apache Spark
• Kafka
• Flink
• Delta Lake
• Iceberg
• Airflow
• dbt
• GCP
• AWS

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Performance-based incentives
• A wide variety of benefits programs

What else we look for (Preferred)

• Experience defining multi-area data architecture across cloud providers such as GCP and AWS.
• A track record of setting technical direction adopted across multiple product areas.
• Excellent communication skills, including senior product development leadership.
• Experience across the breadth of the modern data ecosystem, including Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Airflow, and dbt.
• Deep experience with healthcare interoperability (HL7, FHIR, IHE) and device telemetry at scale.
• A history of influencing data platform strategy in regulated software or other regulated device software.

COVID vaccination requirement

Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply