Inovalon · 4 hours ago
Staff Data Platform Engineer
Nashville, TN
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$113K/yr - $200K/yr
8+ years expInovalon is a technology company focused on transforming the healthcare ecosystem through data-driven solutions. The Staff Data Platform Engineer will work on high throughput and multi-tenant services, designing components, building platform services and APIs, and ensuring reliability and observability of the systems.
AnalyticsHealth CareInformation Technology
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Build platform services/APIs that enable pipeline onboarding, configuration, execution, and status reporting
Develop backend services in Java (Spring Boot) and/or Python (FastAPI/Django) with strong testing discipline
Own runtime patterns on AWS: ECS/EKS, MWAA, Lambda, Step Functions, RDS, including scaling, failure handling, and deployments
Build and evolve scalable platform abstractions powering mission-critical, high-throughput workloads
Establish and champion platform-wide engineering standards, conventions, and guardrails
Build and maintain Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines to deploy repeatable infrastructure safely across environments
Drive observability and reliability: metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, SLOs, incident response improvements, and failure-mode analysis
Partner with data engineering teams to turn one-off solutions into reusable platform components and guardrails
Adhere to all confidentiality, HIPAA, regulatory, and other such policies, procedures, and requirements as outlined within Employer’s Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the scope of work
Maintain compliance with Inovalon’s policies, procedures and mission statement, and fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success
On Call Policy: Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical issues, including outside standard business hours (evenings, weekends, and holidays), ensuring timely response and resolution as per defined SLAs
Qualification
Required
8–15 years building production backend/platform systems
Ability to lead through influence and drive cross-team alignment
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
Preferred
Java + Spring Boot (preferred) and/or strong Python backend development (FastAPI/Django)
AWS: ECS/EKS, Lambda, Step Functions, RDS (plus IAM and networking fundamentals)
Terraform (modules, environment promotion, drift management)
API design patterns (versioning, authN/authZ concepts, idempotency keys, rate limiting)
Operational maturity: observability, incident handling, runbooks, reliability improvements
Benefits
Health insurance
Life insurance
Company-paid disability
401k
18+ days of paid time off
Company
Inovalon
A technology company combining data analytics and targeted interventions to achieve meaningful impact across the healthcare landscape.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2021-08-19Acquired
2015-02-12IPO
Leadership Team
Geoff Charron
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
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2025-12-04
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