Principal Data Engineer, R&D

Join Edwards Lifesciences in Irvine, California, onsite, as a Principal Data Engineer, R&D. This role offers a salary range of USD 121,000 to 171,000 per year, along with a competitive compensation package and performance-based incentives. The position focuses on defining data architecture and platform strategy across multiple IHFM product areas, serving as the primary technical authority for the data platform, and leading high-impact data engineering initiatives while establishing governance standards. This is a hands-on leadership role centered on building robust, interoperable data systems that scale with device data.

Benefits

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

Responsibilities

• Define the data architecture and platform strategy across multiple IHFM product areas.
• Lead the most complex and ambiguous data engineering problems, including suite-level interoperability and device-data scale.
• Influence the roadmap with Technical Data Product Managers and Data Intelligence and Engineering leadership.
• Set the standards for ingestion, modeling, governance, lineage, quality, data products, data contracts, and SLAs that the data platform runs on.
• Establish how validated, traceable, and integrity-preserving data pipelines are engineered across the platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or scientific field plus six or more years of related data engineering experience.
• Recognized experience in data platform architecture, distributed processing, and large-scale data modeling, including modern data 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

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, such as 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 classes of 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.