Vice President of Data Engineering - Hospital Systems

The posting, as Network Bio wrote it

Vice President of Data Engineering

Network Bio | Full-Time | Senior Leadership

About the Role

Network Bio is seeking a VP of Data Engineering to lead the company's execution of hospital data acquisition and clinical data operations. This role owns the day-to-day and quarter-to-quarter work of getting Network Bio into hospital environments, securing compliant access to clinical data — including sensitive information like physician notes — and standing up the pipelines and processes that turn that access into usable data.

This is a hands-on operating leadership role. The VP of Data Engineering reports to the Chief Business Officer, translating company-level strategy into concrete hospital relationships, integration projects, and delivery timelines — running point on individual hospital relationships, managing the technical integration work, and ensuring every engagement is executed compliantly and securely.

This is an individual contributor role today, with the opportunity to build and lead a team as the function grows. The VP of Data Engineering will personally drive execution across every workstream — hospital relationships, infrastructure, contracting, coding, and data processing — while establishing the foundation for that team.

The ideal candidate has done this work before inside an EMR-adjacent or health-data organization and knows firsthand what it takes to earn a hospital's trust, get through their compliance and legal review, and stand up a durable data pipeline afterward.

What You'll Own

Hospital Relationship Execution

• Serve as Network Bio's primary point of contact for assigned hospital and health system partners — IT leadership, compliance/privacy officers, and operational stakeholders.
• Lead individual data access negotiations from first conversation through signed agreement and live data flow, in partnership with legal.
• Maintain and grow existing hospital relationships to expand data scope and depth (e.g., moving from structured data to physician notes and other unstructured clinical documentation).
• Act as the credible, trusted operator hospitals rely on to deliver on commitments made at the strategic level.

Data Acquisition & Integration

• Run the end-to-end implementation of data connections to hospital and health system partners, using simple, secure, file-based data transfer methods.
• Determine and execute the right technical pathway for each partner — secure file transfer (e.g., encrypted file drop), on-site/honest-broker processing, de-identification pipelines — based on that institution's systems and constraints including governance and legal agreements.
• Manage integration project timelines, technical troubleshooting, and coordination between Network Bio's engineering team and hospital IT teams.

Infrastructure

• Own infrastructure across both the Trusted Research Environment (TRE) and NewCo environments.
• Understand and manage cloud deployments, and apply sound information-security judgment wh

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n technologies (OCR, NLP-based entity and information extraction) used in data mining.

• Prior experience at an EMR-adjacent company, health data spinout, HIE, CRO, or similar organization is a plus — experience similar to implementation or delivery leadership roles at similar organizations fits well.
• Entrepreneurial mindset — comfortable operating as a hands-on individual contributor today, with the drive to build and eventually lead a team as the function grows.

Why This Role Matters

Every hospital relationship Network Bio builds and every data pipeline it stands up runs through this role. The VP of Implementation is what turns Network Bio's data strategy into actual, compliant, flowing clinical data — this is the execution engine behind the company's most critical asset.

More About Us

At our company, you’ll thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment where innovation and impact happen daily. Our hybrid work model blends the flexibility of remote work with the energy of in-person collaboration. We foster an inclusive, team-driven culture where every voice matters, ideas are valued, and opportunities for growth and advancement are built into our DNA.

Join us and be rewarded with a competitive compensation package that includes salary and equity, giving you a stake in our shared success. Beyond the numbers, you’ll have the rare opportunity to make a direct, visible impact in a mission-driven organization at the forefront of life sciences innovation, where your work contributes to breakthroughs that can transform patient care and advance the future of precision medicine.

The salary range for this position is $297,000–$367,000 annually, representing a good-faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to pay for this role. Actual compensation will depend on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. This range does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. This role is eligible for the following benefits: medical, vision, dental, 401(k).