Principal Data Lead

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="color: rgb(57, 116, 216);"><strong><span style="font-size: 24pt;">About Blueprint</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Blueprint is a technology solutions firm headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with teams across the United States. We help organizations turn complex challenges into meaningful outcomes by connecting strategy and execution across AI, cloud, data, product development, and emerging technology.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Our culture is built by people who care deeply about doing exceptional work. We set high standards, take ownership, and continually challenge ourselves and one another to be better. We work hard, support each other, and take genuine pride in what we deliver for our clients, partners, and teams.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">At Blueprint, you’ll work alongside talented people with different experiences, expertise, and perspectives. You’ll have opportunities to take on meaningful challenges, expand your skills, and see the impact of what you build.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(57, 116, 216);">Bring your perspective. Raise the standard. Build what matters.</span></strong></p></div><h2 data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(57, 116, 216);"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Blueprint is seeking a <strong>Principal Data Lead</strong> to provide senior leadership for data strategy, governance, quality, and coordination across a complex federal healthcare data environment. This person will be accountable for turning data strategy into practical standards and operating practices that improve the reliability, discoverability, and trusted use of data.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">The <strong>Principal Data Lead</strong> will collaborate with data owners, technical leaders, product teams, engineering teams, and program stakeholders across multiple source systems and data domains. The role also provides senior oversight across data engineering, metadata management, lineage, documentation, and trusted-data promotion.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(57, 116, 216);">What You’ll Do</span></strong></span></h2> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Lead the execution of data strategy across a large, multi-domain federal healthcare program.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Establish and advance data supply chain and metadata maturity practices.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Define governance for trusted-data promotion, including the standards and controls data must meet before broader use.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Set and maintain data quality standards, measurement practices, and accountability across data domains.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Coordinate priorities and decisions across source-system teams, data owners, engineering teams, and program stakeholders.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Provide senior oversight for data engineering practices involving Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, jobs and workflows, schema design, optimization, and pipeline rel