Director, Engineering
Quick Summary
Define and own the multi-year data platform roadmap, tied directly to Engineering and company objectives. Build the organization: Hire, structure,
Manage the platform budget, including cloud cost management and vendor and tool selection. Measure and report results: Define success metrics (platform adoption, time to analytics-ready data,
Responsibilities
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Today, data moves from product teams to analytics through disconnected flows and a lot of heroics. As the founding Director of Data Platform Engineering, you’ll replace that with a governed, reliable platform that product teams want to build on and analysts can trust.
You’ll set the vision, hire the managers and engineers, and align Engineering, Product, Reporting & Analytics, Security, and Compliance around one idea. Better data means faster insight for our clients and members.
Requirements
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- 12+ years in data or software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering organizations with managers reporting to you
- Experience building or significantly scaling a large data platform in production in the cloud ([AWS / Azure / GCP])
- Experience with regulated, sensitive data in healthcare, insurance, or a similar industry
- Plus: Experience standing up a new organization or consolidating fragmented data functions
- Modern data architecture: data lakes, open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake), batch and stream processing, data modeling, and orchestration
- Data governance experience across many teams, covering data quality, PII/PHI management, freshness, and ownership
- Preferred: Hands-on familiarity with Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, and event-driven or microservices architectures
- Preferred: Experience supporting ML/AI workloads, such as feature stores, model serving, or LLM-based applications
No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!
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Personify Health is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice.
In compliance with all states and cities that require transparency of pay, the base compensation for this position ranges from $125,000 to $170,000.00. Note that salary may vary based on location, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for health, dental, vision, mental health and other benefits.
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Location & Eligibility
About this job
- Pay per year
- $125,000–$170,000 a year
- 34% below the $223,000 median for Engineering Manager jobs on Jobera (1,031 salaries).
- Posted
- 3 days ago
Listing Details
- Posted
- October 30, 2026
- First seen
- October 30, 2026
- Last seen
- November 2, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 2
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 67%
- Scored at
- November 2, 2026
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