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SmarterDx · 18 hours ago

Data Engineering Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$210K/yr - $230K/yr

7+ years exp

SmarterDx is a company that builds clinical AI to enhance healthcare systems. They are seeking a Manager of Data Engineering to lead a data engineering team, focusing on building scalable data pipelines and collaborating with various teams to deliver innovative data solutions.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Health CareHospitalInformation Technology

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a team of data engineers with a focus on technical excellence, delivery velocity, and collaborative culture

Lead a teams to design and maintain robust data models that accurately represent complex clinical and billing data across diverse EHR systems

Create scalable data solutions using modern tooling (dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, AWS, Python) to enable advanced analytics and ML capabilities

Design and implement data pipelines, reusable patterns, and frameworks that accelerate delivery and ensure reliable operation

Establish development standards and best practices including code reviews, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and documentation standards

Implement comprehensive data quality and testing frameworks (schema, nullability, referential integrity, reconciliation) and lineage observability

Establish and enforce SLOs/SLAs, instrument critical paths, and drive incident reduction via proactive monitoring, alerting, and post-incident reviews

Collaborate cross-functionally (Product, Clinical, Data Science, Software Engineering) to translate business requirements into technical solutions and drive measurable outcomes

Drive technical design reviews, architectural decisions, and technology evaluations to ensure platform scalability and maintainability

Qualification

Data engineering leadershipHealthcare data expertiseModern data stackData pipeline designCI/CD expertiseIncident managementStakeholder managementAgile practicesHands-on contributionCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

7+ years of data engineering experience, including leadership of technical ICs and projects (architecture, design, delivery)

Deep experience with health care datasets: clinical and/or billing/claims data; familiarity with HL7/FHIR and interoperability patterns

Strong expertise with modern data stack: advanced dbt development, Snowflake operations, Python, and SQL at scale

Proven track record of building in scaled data platforms that support analytics, ML, and product features

Developer and operational excellence mindset: expertise in Git, CI/CD, testing, SLOs/SLAs, incident management, and agile practices

Excellent communication and stakeholder management; comfortable driving design and implementation decisions to create alignment across technical and non-technical partners

Willingness to roll up sleeves and contribute hands-on to unblock the team