# Associate Director, Data Engineering

**Company:** [Formation Bio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/formation-bio)
**Location:** New York, NY, Boston, MA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $214k – $267k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Snowflake, Dagster, Apache Airflow, dbt, Python, SQL, Docker, GitHub, Terraform, Opentofu, LLMs, Data Governance, Data Observability, Data Lineage, Data Quality
**Posted:** 2026-08-31

> Leads the data engineering team and platform strategy, overseeing pipelines, warehousing, governance, reliability, and data products supporting clinical operations and company decisions. Requires 7+ years across data engineering and people management, including 3+ years directly managing data engineers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Hire, coach, and develop data engineers; set goals, provide feedback, and manage performance.
- Set the data engineering technical direction and roadmap across data quality, governance, scalability, and stakeholder experience.
- Partner with Data Science, Analytics, Clinical Operations, Data Managers, and Business Development to deliver pipelines and data models for reporting, asset evaluation, analytics, and ML use cases.
- Oversee data platform architecture and maintenance, including clinical, operational, and third-party data ingestion, orchestration, transformation, and the Snowflake warehouse across development, staging, and production.
- Establish strong data quality, observability, lineage, documentation, and engineering quality practices.
- Own governance for regulated and sensitive data, including access controls, auditability, and traceability.
- Review requirements and design documents for data products and pipelines and maintain knowledge-sharing practices.
- Drive training and mentoring on data engineering and modern data tooling.
- Manage data platform support rotation, incident escalation, and retrospectives.
- Manage budgeting, resourcing, and reporting for data engineering initiatives.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of total experience across hands-on data engineering and people management, including 3+ years managing data engineers, analytics engineers, or similar roles.
- Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers, with ability to provide direct feedback and set clear expectations.
- Experience directing teams that use LLMs and agentic coding systems responsibly in daily engineering work.
- Strong knowledge of modern data stack tooling, including Snowflake, Dagster or Airflow, dbt, and batch versus streaming architectures.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical disciplines.
- Experience managing or coordinating technical projects and programs, including budgeting, estimation, tracking, and reporting.
- Knowledge of data governance, access control, and auditability practices, preferably with regulated or sensitive data.
- Working knowledge of Python, SQL, Docker, GitHub, and Terraform or OpenTofu.
- Experience overseeing data quality frameworks, testing, and observability for production data pipelines.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life-sciences data.

## Compensation
- Total compensation range: **$213,500–$267,000**.
- Compensation may include base salary, equity, comprehensive benefits, and perks.

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