VP Enterprise Engineering – Business Platforms

Role Overview

• Define and own the architectural vision for Datavant’s enterprise business platform domain
• Establish clear system boundaries, integration patterns, and governance standards across dozens of applications
• Prevent platform fragmentation and over-customization, particularly within Salesforce and financial systems
• Define integration architecture strategy, including middleware, API management, and event-driven patterns
• Build a scalable platform model that can absorb new business domains and acquisitions
• Own the engineering architecture supporting billing, revenue recognition, contract management, and financial reporting
• Modernize financial system patterns to support growth, complex pricing models, and compliance requirements
• Partner closely with Finance leadership to ensure systems are scalable, audit-ready, and operationally resilient
• Ensure revenue-critical systems operate with appropriate reliability, controls, and incident management
• Own engineering strategy and architectural governance for Salesforce and related CRM systems
• Drive consolidation of multiple environments and establish strong data standards and change control
• Ensure CRM remains a customer relationship platform — not a substitute for an ERP or an operational catch-all
• Govern vendor and implementation partners to reduce architectural drift and technical debt
• Establish middleware as a first-class platform capability with defined ownership and architectural standards
• Clarify integration ownership and reduce reliance on contractors for core capabilities
• Define durable API and event-driven integration patterns across enterprise systems
• Ensure secure, reliable data flow across financial, CRM, and operational systems
• Govern enterprise automation capabilities including managed file transfer, RPA, and AI-enabled workflow initiatives
• Ensure emerging AI-driven systems (including contact center automation) are architecturally integrated and aligned with enterprise standards
• Prevent fragmented automation point solutions across teams
• Align automation initiatives to measurable business outcomes and operational resilience
• Consolidate and harden customer-facing authentication and authorization into a unified, secure platform
• Improve reliability and reduce support burden related to login and access flows
• Ensure identity infrastructure scales with growth and meets healthcare compliance requirements
• Lead and develop directors and managers across financial systems, CRM, middleware, and automation
• Assess organizational structure and talent against long-term platform demands
• Build engineering depth to reduce vendor dependency in strategic areas
• Establish a culture of architectural ownership, operational discipline, and cross-domain collaboration
• Manage significant vendor and contractor relationships with clear accountability and transition planning
• Partner with recruiting to build senior enterprise platform engineering capacity globally.

Requirements

• 15+ years in technology leadership. 5+ years leading enterprise engineering or platform organizations at the VP or senior director level
• Proven experience architecting and operating complex multi-platform enterprise ecosystems
• Deep understanding of integration architecture, middleware, APIs, and event-driven system design
• Strong experience managing COTS platforms (e.g., Salesforce, NetSuite, or equivalent) without allowing architectural drift or over-customization
• Experience modernizing financial or revenue systems in high-growth or acquisition-driven environments
• Demonstrated ability to consolidate fragmented ownership models and build durable engineering organizations
• Experience operating in regulated or compliance-heavy industries (healthcare, life sciences, or financial services preferred)
• Ability to communicate decisions clearly, align stakeholders, and make definitive architecture/vendor calls under ambiguity
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams and significant vendor ecosystems.

Tech Stack

• ERP
• RPA

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Remote work options