Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering

The role

You will lead a Data Platform engineering team to build a scalable data foundation. You will manage people, drive technical execution, and ensure operational reliability across complex data initiatives.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Data Platform engineering team
• Own execution across complex data initiatives and delivery plans
• Establish strong delivery discipline and address blockers
• Assess delivery and implementation risk with technical leaders
• Build cross-functional partnerships to align priorities
• Drive operational excellence across production support and reliability
• Guide the evolution of the data platform including ingestion and cloud architecture

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, software engineering, or a related technical field
• 3 years of directly managing software or data engineers or as a Lead/Staff level Data Engineer in a production engineering environment
• Demonstrated success building, coaching, and managing high-performing engineering teams
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives from planning through production
• Strong technical depth in modern data platforms including data ingestion, ETL/ELT, distributed data processing, data modeling, cloud-based data architectures, and production data systems
• Experience with modern cloud and data technologies such as AWS, S3, Iceberg, Glue, Airflow, Spark/PySpark, Athena, or comparable technologies
• Strong understanding of engineering quality and operational practices including testing, data quality, observability, incident management, on-call operations, version control, CI/CD, and production re
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience building or operating enterprise-scale data lakehouse, data platform, or data infrastructure capabilities
• Experience working with healthcare data, including claims, eligibility, clinical, provider, or other healthcare datasets
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, data cataloging, security, privacy, and regulated data environments
• Demonstrated success helping an engineering team mature its delivery practices, technical standards, operational discipline, or platform capabilities during a period of significant growth

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• 401K retirement plan with company match
• Flexible spending and health savings account
• Flexible Time Off
• Company Holidays
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
• Pet insurance

Before you apply

• Preliminary Phone Screening
• Meet your Hiring Manager
• Live System Design & Project Retro
• Behavioral Interview(s)

About the company

Cohere Health is a fast-growing clinical intelligence company that is improving lives at scale by promoting the best patient-specific care options. Their solutions have been adopted by health plans covering over 15 million lives.