Inovalon is a leading cloud-based healthcare technology company that leverages data analytics and AI to drive meaningful improvements across the healthcare ecosystem. The Senior Full-Stack Machine Learning Engineer sits within the Insights Business Unit, which serves as Inovalon’s central AI and machine learning hub. This team partners with Provider, Payer, and Pharmacy business units to identify, build, and deploy AI solutions that improve clinical and operational outcomes at scale. 

In this role, you will contribute to both classical machine learning and generative AI applications, including LLM-based and agentic solutions. You will work across the full model development lifecycle on a modern, cloud-native AWS stack, collaborating closely with AI Product Managers and a distributed team of senior engineers across the U.S. and India. 

Key Responsibilities

• Design, train, and deploy machine learning models spanning classical ML (classification, regression, clustering, time-series) and generative AI use cases including LLM-based and agentic applications. 
• Build and maintain cloud-native solutions on AWS using containerized architectures (Docker, Kubernetes) to support scalable model serving and data pipelines. 
• Own and contribute to the full Model Development Lifecycle (MDLC), including dataset versioning, model versioning, model registry management, and model evaluation frameworks. 
• Develop and integrate Python-based ML components that work seamlessly with existing product platforms across multiple business units. 
• Collaborate with AI Product Managers across the Insights BU and partner business units (Provider, Payer, Pharmacy) to translate business needs into AI solutions. 
• Apply neural networks and deep learning techniques using PyTorch for appropriate use cases alongside scikit-learn-based classical approaches. 
• Write robust, production-ready code following engineering best practices; participate in code and design reviews. 
• Leverage AI coding tools (such as Claude Code or equivalent) as part of your daily development workflow to improve velocity and code quality. 
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team knowledge-sharing around ML best practices, tooling, and architecture decisions. 
• Support integration of frontend components into ML-powered features where applicable. 
• Contribute to retrospectives and team process improvements; actively participate in sprint planning and end-of-iteration demos. 
• Adhere to all HIPAA, data governance, confidentiality, and regulatory requirements in all aspects of work. 
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon’s policies, procedures, and mission statement, fulfilling responsibilities that support operational and financial success. 

Qualifications

Required 

• Minimum 5 years of software development experience with a strong foundation in machine learning fundamentals and model training. 
• Expert-level Python proficiency; Python is the team’s primary language and is the highest-priority technical requirement. 
• Hands-on experience building and deploying classical ML models in production using scikit-learn. 
• Demonstrated experience with generative AI, LLMs, or agentic application development. 
• Proficiency with PyTorch and neural network architectures. 
• Practical knowledge of the Model Development Lifecycle (MDLC): dataset versioning, model versioning, model registry, and model evaluation. 
• AWS cloud experience, including deploying and managing cloud-native workloads. 
• Containerization experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes. 
• Strong problem-solving ability; demonstrated capacity to work independently and take ownership of complex technical challenges. 
• Daily usage of AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) as part of standard development workflow. 

Preferred 

• Experience with database technologies (SQL or NoSQL); familiarity with data pipeline tooling. 
• Frontend development skills to support full-stack ML feature work. 
• Healthcare domain experience or exposure to HIPAA-regulated environments. 

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field required. 
• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or equivalent practical experience preferred. 

Physical Demands and Work Environment 

• Sedentary work (i.e., sitting for long periods of time). 
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force. 
• Subject to inside environmental conditions. 
• Travel for this position will include less than 10% locally, usually for training purposes. 

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.

Role Overview

Zeta Global is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to build and scale healthcare-focused applications and data systems that power audience intelligence, activation, measurement, and reporting across both HCP and DTC workflows.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role operating at the intersection of distributed systems, data engineering, and healthcare domain constraints. You will design and deliver systems that integrate identity, audience data, and campaign performance while meeting strict requirements for privacy, compliance, and reliability.

The ideal candidate brings strong system design depth, experience building data-intensive platforms, and the ability to lead through architecture and execution in regulated environments.

What You’ll Build

• Full-stack applications supporting HCP and patient (DTC) audience discovery, segmentation, and activation
  • Scalable data pipelines for ingestion, normalization, and enrichment of healthcare datasets
  • Identity resolution and data linkage services across fragmented data sources
  • Reporting, attribution, and measurement systems connecting campaigns to outcomes
  • APIs and services enabling downstream activation, analytics, and partner integrations

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and hands-on development of distributed systems supporting healthcare data workflows
  • Design and implement scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming) for large-scale datasets
  • Build and maintain APIs and services with strong SLAs, observability, and fault tolerance
  • Implement identity resolution logic including matching, deduplication, and graph-based linkage
  • Ensure high data quality through validation, reconciliation, and monitoring frameworks
  • Design systems with strong security controls, including encryption, access control, and auditability
  • Apply privacy-by-design principles across all systems handling PHI/PII
  • Partner with Product and Data teams to translate healthcare requirements into scalable architectures
  • Drive engineering best practices across testing, CI/CD, code quality, and operational excellence
  • Mentor engineers and act as a technical leader across the team

Engineering Expectations

• Strong experience designing distributed systems (microservices, event-driven architectures)
  • Deep understanding of data modeling, storage systems (OLTP, OLAP), and data processing frameworks
  • Experience with streaming and batch processing (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Flink, or similar)
  • Proficiency in backend development (Python, Java, or Ruby) and API design (REST/gRPC)
  • Experience building modern front-end applications (React or similar)
  • Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience implementing observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and reliability patterns
  • Strong understanding of performance optimization and scalability tradeoffs

Healthcare & Domain Expectations

• Experience working with HCP data (provider identity, targeting, segmentation)
  • Experience with patient / DTC data workflows and privacy-aware systems
  • Understanding of healthcare data ecosystems (claims, provider, or audience datasets)
  • Familiarity with identity graphs and data onboarding patterns
  • Experience building reporting or attribution systems tied to business outcomes
  • Strong grasp of HIPAA, PHI/PII, and regulated data handling requirements

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of software engineering experience with increasing technical ownership
  • Proven track record of building and scaling data-intensive or distributed systems
  • Experience working in regulated environments (healthcare strongly preferred)
  • Strong system design and architecture skills
  • Ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on in implementation
  • Strong collaboration skills across engineering, product, and data teams

Preferred

• Experience with healthcare data providers or identity ecosystems
  • Background in AdTech, MarTech, or audience/data platforms
  • Experience with privacy-enhancing technologies (tokenization, clean rooms)
  • Exposure to ML/AI-driven data products or analytics systems

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 $200,000 - $215,000, 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/ 

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What You'll Do:

• Participate fully in the Solutions Engineering Academy bootcamp, mastering core product knowledge, sales methodologies, and demonstration techniques.
• Shadow and support the Commercial sales team throughout the sales cycle, including discovery calls and technical discussions, in preparation for a client-facing role.
• Conduct internal practice demonstrations of the Motive product offering, effectively showcasing our core value proposition, specifically the capabilities driven by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
• Develop expertise in Motive's integrated platform, spanning IoT hardware (in-vehicle devices, sensors), cloud-based data aggregation, and AI/ML features that automate complex operational workflows.
• Learn to successfully match customer pain points and requirements to proposed solutions, articulating clear business benefits and foundational return on investment (ROI).
• Rapidly become a subject matter expert on Motive’s current product offering and future roadmap.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Team to provide feedback from the field and assist with training on new feature releases.
• Act as a technical liaison during the training phase between the sales team and various internal organizations, including Product, Engineering, and Customer Success, ensuring seamless information flow.
• Prepare and deliver technical presentations and mock proposals that clearly articulate the value and functionality of Motive's solutions.

What We're Looking For:

• Bachelor's Degree required
• 0-1 years of professional experience. Internship experience in a pre-sales, technical support, or customer-facing role is a significant plus.
• A strong desire and ability to quickly learn complex SaaS and hardware solutions, paired with a genuine interest in experimenting with and understanding how AI/ML models and IoT devices operate in real-world environments.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts in an understandable way.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand customer challenges and propose effective technical solutions.
• The ability to quickly connect technical solution features to tangible business outcomes and value.
• A strong desire to learn, grow, and execute in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Interest in the Transportation & Logistics industry is beneficial.

Location: Nashville, TN

Work Environment: Hybrid, periodic travel required   

Target Compensation Range: $130,000 to $170,000

Role Summary: Lead data engineering workstreams and build high-quality data solutions that support client reporting, analytics, and data pipelines.

Who We Are 

At The Gunter Group (TGG), we are a people-first management consulting firm and proud 20-time workplace award winner. We build trusted partnerships with our clients by working alongside their teams. Together, we deliver practical solutions and lasting impact across strategy, execution, people, and technology. We show up ready to roll up our sleeves, solve complex problems, and make a real difference together.

Your Impact at The Gunter Group

As a Senior Consultant – Data Engineer at The Gunter Group, you partner closely with clients and consulting teams to deliver meaningful business results through high-quality data engineering solutions. You take ownership of technical workstreams, help guide delivery, and collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to turn unstructured challenges into structured, actionable data solutions.

You contribute across a variety of industries and engagement types, applying strong technical judgment and practical problem-solving skills to design, build, and deliver data platforms and pipelines that support client goals.

Lead High-Impact Client Delivery

• Play a key role in client engagement delivery by leading data engineering workstreams and guiding TGG teams to successful project outcomes.
• Flex across delivery environments, working as an individual contributor, part of a consulting team, or as a technical or workstream lead embedded with the client.
• Apply structured methodologies, toolkits, and best practices to execute effectively and deliver high-quality data solutions.
• Embrace unstructured challenges and help turn them into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.

Deliver Data Engineering & Analytics Solutions

• Analyze requirements and design, build, debug, and deploy cloud-based data services and components.
• Build and schedule data pipelines to extract, transform, and store data across SQL databases and cloud platforms including Azure, GCP, AWS, and Snowflake.
• Explore and analyze data using Excel, Power Query, SQL, and Python, developing solutions in Python/Jupyter and presenting insights through data visualizations.
• Develop and maintain design documentation, data models, and interface specifications.
• Write unit tests and work within CI/CD, code quality, and UAT processes.

Collaborate Across Stakeholders and Teams

• Partner with client stakeholders ranging from individual contributors to senior executives to align on goals and deliver outcomes.
• Communicate effectively with IT developers, product owners, and other technical stakeholders.
• Work alongside a collaborative team of TGG consultants committed to delivering outstanding client service.
• Engage with TGG partners, principals, account leaders, managers, and peers who support your success across engagements

What You Bring 

• 6+ years of consulting or related experience with a strong track record of client service and delivering results.
• Proven ability to collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements, plan delivery, and communicate results using clear documentation, diagrams, and presentations.
• Experience with data science and machine learning concepts and methods.
• Experience with Python, SQL, and BI/analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau), and familiarity with modern programming languages and frameworks (Java, C#/.NET, JavaScript). 
• Understanding of programming paradigms, source control, and software lifecycle best practices (e.g., Git). 
• Strong knowledge of data lifecycles, including how data is collected, transformed, stored, and consumed. 
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and translating business needs into effective technology solutions.

Working at The Gunter Group

Salary and Benefits

Supporting the well-being of our team is a priority at TGG. Our benefits package includes competitive health coverage, wellness programs, flexible PTO, professional development and work-from-home stipends, as well as team offsites, social events, and volunteer opportunities.

The total expected compensation range for this role is $130,000 to $170,000, consisting of a base salary and variable billing bonus component. Additional compensation may be earned through contributions to account leadership and business development. We discuss compensation and bonus opportunities openly throughout the hiring process.

Why TGG

The Gunter Group is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with team members primarily located in our three core geographies: Portland, Nashville, and Denver. Our consultants work across remote, hybrid, and onsite environments depending on client needs, with travel expectations varying by engagement and aligned collaboratively with both clients and team members.

We partner with organizations across industries including retail, apparel, government, education, insurance, and Fortune 100 companies, working alongside client teams to solve complex problems and deliver practical solutions that drive lasting results. Our work is rooted in strong relationships, thoughtful execution, and a shared commitment to doing quality work.

At TGG, we believe people do their best work when they feel respected, supported, and included. We are committed to fostering an engaging, fair, and authentic environment where diverse backgrounds and perspectives are valued. Our culture is guided by non‑negotiable values—including integrity, curiosity, emotional intelligence, collaboration, confidence, and the ability to thrive in ambiguity—and by a high standard of excellence in how we show up for our clients and each other.

The Gunter Group LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

WORKING AT THE MLC

The MLC is committed to excellence, service, transparency, and diversity. Our culture is collaborative, our people are adaptable. On our team, you are respected, valued for your unique strengths and experiences, and empowered to identify and resolve your own challenges.

The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) is a nonprofit organization designated by the U.S. Copyright Office to administer blanket mechanical licenses for digital music services in the United States. Our mission is to ensure that songwriters, composers, and music publishers are accurately paid for the use of their music in the digital ecosystem. While our foundation is rooted in music licensing and rights administration, the scale and complexity of the data we process-billions of usage records from digital service providers-has positioned The MLC at the intersection of music and technology. As we continue to build and refine the systems that power matching, royalty processing, and rights management, we are increasingly operating like a technology company, developing sophisticated platforms, data infrastructure, and automation to support the future of digital music licensing.

THE ROLE

As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will design, implement, and own the testing strategy for the Matching Platform. You will build and maintain automated testing frameworks and perform exploratory validation across workflows, APIs, integrations, and user-facing components to ensure the system behaves as intended and that changes do not introduce regressions. You will contribute production-quality testing code, establish testing standards and best practices, and work closely with the Matching Team throughout story refinement and implementation to ensure new functionality is testable, clearly defined, and validated before completion. The Matching Platform is a critical tool that enables The MLC to drive accurate royalty payments to our Members.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum five (5) years’ experience in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering within a software engineering team.
• Strong experience designing and implementing automated tests; able to write and maintain production-quality testing code.
• Hands-on experience with manual and exploratory testing in complex systems; able to validate behavior against business rules.
• Experience testing APIs and workflow-heavy or data-driven systems; proficient in SQL; experience working within AWS environments.
• Experience testing machine learning or probabilistic systems, building testing frameworks from scratch, or working with orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow is a plus.
• Strong attention to detail, clear documentation skills, and effective collaboration within Agile, cross-functional teams.
• Working proficiency in Python, familiarity with other languages is a plus.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

AS A QA ENGINEER AT THE MLC, YOU WILL:

• Own the testing strategy for the Matching Platform, ensuring consistent validation across workflows, APIs, integrations, and user-facing components.
• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites in Python, establishing and evolving the team’s testing framework.
• Perform manual and exploratory testing before work is considered complete, validating complex workflows, identifying defects, edge cases, unintended behaviors, and deviations from business rules.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and product stakeholders during story refinement and development to ensure features are testable and clearly defined.
• Define and maintain QA standards and testing practices within the Matching Team, contributing to regression coverage as the platform evolves.
• Investigate and document defects clearly, working with developers to resolve issues prior to ticket completion.

AS A MEMBER OF THE TECHNOLOGY TEAM, YOU WILL:

• Advocate for quality throughout the development lifecycle, partnering with engineers to incorporate testing considerations early.
• Contribute to the evolution of scalable, automated QA practices across the Technology organization.
• Promote consistent standards for reliability, validation, and defect management.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, providing a quality-focused perspective in planning and retrospectives.
• Support continuous improvement of engineering practices as systems grow in complexity.