Senior Engineering Manager - Payer Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager - Payer Engineering

Location: Galway, Ireland. Full time, Regular.

Datavant is a 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.

As a Senior Engineering Manager on our Provider Engineering team, you will:

• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams responsible for building scalable API products and platform capabilities that power interoperability, automation, and digital workflows for providers.
• Drive engineering excellence and organizational maturity across reliability, observability, security, and compliance while ensuring operational rigor at scale.
• Scale Datavant's engineering capabilities by building reusable systems, frameworks, and processes that enable multiple teams to move faster and deliver with quality.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Implementation, and Digital Operations to deliver mission critical enterprise SaaS solutions that improve healthcare outcomes.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, mentorship, and purpose driven leadership that grows with the organisation.

What You'll Do

• Define and execute the technical and organizational vision for Datavant's Connections platform in alignment with product strategy and business goals.
• Build, mentor, and scale high performing engineering teams, developing next generation technical and people leaders.
• Establish enterprise grade engineering practices-SLAs, monitoring, incident response, security controls, and compliance frameworks aligned with B2B SaaS and healthcare standards.
• Partner cross functionally to accelerate value delivery, improve developer productivity, and expand Datavant's integration ecosystem.
• Model mission first leadership, ensuring every engineering investment advances interoperability, data privacy, and healthcare impact.
• Collaborate with peer engineering leaders to drive technical consistency, operational excellence, and cultural alignment across the broader 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: balances strategic thinking with hands on technical engagement; decisive, collaborative, trusted leader who enables others to succeed; views feedback and continuous learning as key; acts with integrity, accountability, and commitment to data privacy and security.

Benefits

• Competitive, equitable salary.
• Comprehensive benefits.
• Pension contribution.
• Flexible, hybrid work environment.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Datavant is a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Datavant is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need an accommodation while seeking employment, please request it through the appropriate channel. We review requests for reasonable accommodations on a case by case basis.