[Remote] Senior Engineering Manager- Payer Routing
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare, aiming to make health data secure, accessible, and actionable. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead teams in building innovative routing systems that enhance data retrieval for healthcare decisions, focusing on scalability, reliability, and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the technical and organizational vision for Datavant's routing and retrieval platform, ensuring alignment with product strategy, business objectives, and healthcare interoperability goals
- Lead, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering teams, cultivating the next generation of technical and people leaders
- Drive engineering excellence through enterprise-grade practices that enable reliable, secure, and compliant systems at scale, including service-level objectives, observability, incident management, security controls, and healthcare-focused compliance requirements
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Implementation, Digital Operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders to deliver mission-critical SaaS solutions that improve healthcare outcomes
- Lead teams responsible for the routing, decisioning, and retrieval platforms that match members to providers, apply complex business logic, and orchestrate retrieval workflows across digital and operational channels
- Scale organizational effectiveness by investing in reusable platforms, frameworks, and engineering processes that accelerate delivery while maintaining quality, reliability, and operational excellence
- Collaborate with peer engineering leaders to drive technical consistency, architectural alignment, and operational excellence across the broader engineering organization
- Model mission-driven leadership, ensuring engineering investments advance Datavant's goals around interoperability, data privacy, and healthcare impact
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, mentorship, and continuous improvement that grows with the organization
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with 6–8+ years in engineering management leading multiple teams, tech leads, or managers
- Proven track record scaling enterprise-grade B2B SaaS platforms in regulated industries (healthcare or financial services strongly preferred)
- Experience building foundational platforms and APIs that support multiple products or customer use cases
- Deep understanding of systems design for scale, including multi-tenancy, cost optimization, observability, and operational excellence
- Demonstrated success in elevating engineering maturity, implementing quality frameworks, compliance processes, and continuous improvement systems
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, working effectively with Product, Design, and GTM partners
- Deep mission alignment with Datavant's purpose of improving healthcare through secure, compliance, and scalable data exchange
- 10+ years of engineering experience spanning startups and enterprise-scale environments
- Balances strategic thinking with hands-on technical engagement
- Recognized as a decisive, collaborative, and trusted leader who enables others to succeed
- Views feedback and continuous learning as key to growth, personally and organizationally
- Acts with integrity, accountability, and a deep commitment to data privacy and security
Benefits
- At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.
- To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc.
- Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis.
- Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.
- This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.
- Datavant is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need an accommodation while seeking employment, please request it here, by selecting the ‘Interview Accommodation Request’ category.
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