[Hiring] Principal Analytics Engineer @LifeStance Health

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced Principal Analytics Engineer to provide technical leadership for Enterprise Analytics. Reporting directly to the VP of Analytics and Insights, this senior individual contributor will create the trusted, scalable analytics foundation used to understand enterprise performance and support better decisions across the organization. The role will:

• Design high-quality data models and analytics products spanning patient demand and conversion, access and scheduling, patient engagement and retention, operational optimization, enterprise KPIs, and major business transformation initiatives.
• Remain hands-on with SQL, data modeling, testing, and documentation.
• Serve as an internal expert who establishes standards, accelerates adoption of analytics engineering practices, and mentors data analysts.

Consistent with LifeStance’s values, every member of the LifeStance team is expected to support each other and the mission, which may mean participating in projects and initiatives and performing functions and responsibilities not specifically outlined in this job description.

Compensation

$160,000 - $175,000/annually in addition to a competitive bonus plan

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain SQL-based data transformations that convert data from EHR and other enterprise systems into clean, tested, analysis-ready datasets with minimal technical direction.
• Lead the design of reusable enterprise data models and semantic layers that support consistent analysis of patient demand and conversion, patient engagement and retention, clinician capacity and productivity, scheduling and access, and other priority KPIs.
• Establish the foundation for analytics engineering adoption, including modeling patterns, development standards, testing practices, documentation expectations, code-review approaches, and repeatable pathways from analysis to governed production assets.
• Develop and maintain the datasets utilized by enterprise dashboards and analytical products in Power BI or similar tools that provide actionable insights and self-service capabilities for operational, functional, and executive stakeholders.
• Partner closely and iteratively with business leaders, data analysts, product teams, and subject matter experts to translate ambiguous questions into clear metric definitions, scalable data products, and decision-ready insights.
• Serve as an internal expert on analytics engineering, advising teams on model design, metric governance, source-of-truth decisions, data quality, performance, and the appropriate division of responsibilities across data engineering, analytics engineering, and business intelligence/reporting.
• Mentor data analysts in SQL, dimensional modeling, version-controlled development, testing, documentation, and reuse of governed data assets, helping analysts progressively adopt analytics engineering methods in day-to-day work.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex data quality and metric-consistency issues, and implement durable controls that improve trust, lineage, and maintainability across analytics products.
• Collaborate with data engineering, platform, governance, and analytics teams to align enterprise models with target architecture, privacy and security requirements, EHR transition needs, and modernization of the data and analytics environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, or another discipline with relevant work experience required.
• 10+ years of experience using advanced SQL to build production-grade data transformations, analytical datasets, and reusable models supporting BI, analytics, or data products.
• 8+ years of experience designing flexible, scalable analytics and data modeling solutions in healthcare environments, including dimensional models, semantic layers, and executive or operational dashboards.
• 6+ years of experience operating independently in a senior or lead role, partnering with business and technical stakeholders to define metrics, resolve ambiguity, and deliver enterprise-scale analytics solutions.
• Demonstrated experience leading analytics engineering architecture and standards across complex, multi-data-source environments, with accountability for technical quality and long-term maintainability.
• Expert-level skills in analytics data model design and execution with dbt, including facts and dimensions, modularity, normalization and denormalization trade-offs, incremental processing, testing, lineage, and performance optimization.
• Proven ability to create adoption foundations and influence ways of working through standards, reusable frameworks, enablement, code review, documentation, and mentoring without relying on direct authority.
• Strong healthcare or similarly complex regulated-industry experience, with working knowledge of data privacy, security, minimum-necessary access, de-identification, and governance requirements.
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States.

Preferred Skills and Knowledge

• Deep experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, or Databricks and modern transformation and software-development practices using dbt, Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and orchestration tools.
• Experience integrating EHR, scheduling, patient access, CRM, workforce, finance, or revenue-cycle data to support enterprise KPI reporting, patient journey analytics, capacity and utilization insights, retention analysis, or operational decision-making.
• Experience leading analytics modernization, EHR or source-system transitions, semantic-layer development, data product governance, or migration from report-specific logic to reusable governed models.
• Advanced degree in Data Science, Analytics, Computer Science, Informatics, Engineering, or a related field, and experience coaching analysts or analytics engineers through formal or informal technical leadership.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, bend, talk and hear.
• The employee is frequently required to walk.
• The employee must be able to lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.