Senior Engineering Manager- Payer Routing

Job Description

Job Description

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world's health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient's request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.

By joining Datavant today, you're stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

Datavant's Payer Engineering organization powers the secure, large-scale medical record retrieval platform that health plans depend on to close care gaps, support quality programs, and make better decisions for their members. Within our Retrieval Platform zone, the Routing team owns the intelligent matching and decisioning layer at the heart of retrieval, turning member and provider data into the right retrieval instructions, at the right priority, across the right channels, at massive scale. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead the teams building the next generation of these routing systems. You will scale both technology and teams with a focus on reliability, accuracy, and long-term sustainability, ensuring that every healthcare decision is powered by trusted, timely data.

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 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.

Leadership Qualities and Mindset

• 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.

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

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.

The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.

The estimated total cash compensation range for this role is:

$220,000—$270,000 USD

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.

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