Senior Engineering Manager- Payer Routing

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What You Bring

• 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 enterprise-grade practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, security controls, incident management), particularly in regulated environments.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with experience partnering with product and business stakeholders to drive customer-facing results.
• Expertise in modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and distributed systems.
• Experience with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7, X12) and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2) is highly valued.
• Experience with decisioning engines, rules-based systems, or matching/optimization platforms is strongly preferred but not required.