Director, Software Engineering

Datavant is a healthcare data collaboration platform that makes health data secure, accessible, and actionable. The Director of Software Engineering will lead the engineering function for internally facing platforms supporting lead-to-cash operations, shared services, and custom applications, while overseeing engineering leaders, technical standards, architecture, and delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Build, grow, and lead a world-class team of software engineers, engineering managers, and technical leads responsible for our custom applications — owning hiring, growth, performance, and the technical bar
• Set the engineering standards and technology direction for the domain: development practices, technology and architecture choices, quality and testing standards, and how we manage our repositories and technical debt
• Own our shared platform services — for example, enterprise authentication delivered as a service that other product teams consume rather than rebuild — treating them as products in their own right, with internal engineering leaders as your customers
• Be accountable for fit-for-purpose delivery: that what your team builds holds up in production, meets the need it was built for, and doesn’t create tomorrow’s rework
• Partner with product, architecture, security, and compliance, and commit engineers into cross-functional pods to deliver value-stream outcomes — starting with Order-to-Cash and Lead-to-Contract — that no single team owns end to end
• Serve as a senior technical advisor and sounding board to your teams and to the pods that draw on them — engaging on architecture, trade-offs, and design, not just status
• Champion the software solutions, processes, and standards that raise our quality bar over time and carry the business into the future

Requirements:

• You have 12+ years of software engineering experience, including several years in leadership — ideally including leading through other managers — building custom applications and managing SaaS solutions
• You have a genuine engineering background — you've written production software and can still read and reason about code and system design. While this is not a hands-on coding role, engineers respect you as a technologist, not only as a manager
• You have experience defining systems-level architectural and technology vision for a team or domain, and executing on that vision
• You have working fluency in order management, billing, revenue, or closely related commercial and financial-systems domains — enough to know what “correct” looks like in a revenue context
• You have experience owning internally-facing platforms and/or shared services consumed by other engineering teams
• You are comfortable leading in a matrixed, pod-based model — owning people and standards while your engineers deliver inside cross-functional pods
• You have experience in healthcare, financial services, or other highly regulated fields
• You are comfortable making hard decisions and moving quickly to communicate the trade-offs you've made
• You are highly organized and reliable, bring clarity and structure to complexity, and can plan and communicate project status and trade-offs with executives
• Bonus points for experience with revenue-enabling or lead-to-cash systems specifically, or for running shared platform capabilities such as auth or identity as internal products