Senior Engineering Manager- Payer Routing

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare, aiming to make the world’s health data secure, accessible, and actionable. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead teams in building the next generation of routing systems for their medical record retrieval platform, focusing on scaling technology and teams to ensure reliable and accurate healthcare data management.

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

Requirements:

• 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