Engineering Director, Data & Integration Platforms

Our healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Every year, over 50 million Americans suffer adverse financial consequences as a result of seeking care, from lower credit scores to garnished wages. The challenge is only getting worse, as high deductible health plans are the fastest growing plan design in the U.S.

Cedar’s mission is to leverage data science, smart product design and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Today, healthcare providers still engage with its consumers in a “one-size-fits-all” approach; and Cedar is excited to leverage consumer best practices to deliver a superior experience.

The Role

We are seeking a seasoned Engineering Director to lead our Data Integration and Platforms team. This role will help us tackle challenges of scale, quality and insight as the company grows its market share and product scope. You will be responsible for building systems and technologies used by client-facing engineers performing data integrations with electronic health record systems; those used by product engineers integrating with partners and making their own data available for analysis; those used by data scientists creating business insights that help build better products and create better patient experiences. This new team brings together engineers from multiple parts of the organization, and you will be responsible for aligning the team on a common data, AI and ML platform vision - then relentlessly executing while staying atop evolving business priorities.

In this role you will:

• Build a strong team of data, software and implementation engineers from junior to staff+ levels, first-time and senior engineering managers, helping them grow in the fundamentals and through industry connections
• Collaborate closely with delivery engineering teams on mechanisms to improve the quality, speed and scalability of data integration with healthcare providers.
• Establish a technical vision for Cedar’s data platform, building stronger connections and making common data and tools available and usable by teams across the organization; bringing industry insight, tooling and relationships to bear to help our team punch above its weight.
• Improve governance and quality across our dbt pipelines, jupyter notebooks and homegrown ETL pipelines, integrating into our existing development lifecycle or evolving it as necessary.
• Build strong relationships with peers across the organization, helping define a roadmap that balances short-term and long-term needs, aligns with product and infrastructure direction, and ensures issues are surfaced and resolved promptly.
• Prepare the organization for broad adoption of AI/ML, expanding our ability to support existing capabilities at larger scales - more patients, more engineers and more types of data.
• Oversee engineering projects from start to finish, ensuring they meet deadlines, stay within budget, and deliver exceptional results.
• Continuously drive scalability into data tools, processes and engineering practices in order to reduce implementation and analytic timelines, customer friction points and maintenance costs.

About You

• 10+ years of experience in software implementation and engineering, with some fraction of that in teams integrating or using large and complex datasets.
• 5+ years of total experience in a leadership role, managing engineering teams. An ideal candidate will have had 2+ years of experience managing managers (teams of 20+).
• Technical expertise across the data ecosystem: storage, query and ETL orchestration technology; governance and quality; analytics, visualization, and AI/ML pipelines.
• Proven track record of successful project delivery and customer satisfaction, including technical change management.
• Excellent cross-functional stakeholder management experience to navigate trade-off discussions and negotiate priorities.
• Strong process orientation around getting things done at scale - you are comfortable with project management methodologies but believe Process Pays Rent and can adapt the right agile delivery model for the team.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities.
• You are passionate about creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where collaboration is a core part of how you work.

Compensation Range and Benefits

• Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $246,500 - $290,000
• This role is equity eligible
• This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package

*Subject to location, experience, and education

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What do we offer to the ideal candidate?

• A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
• Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
• For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of PTO per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including the Cedarian Advisory Group (a cross-functional cohort focused on increasing internal inclusiveness at Cedar) and three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally

About us

Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company fueled by remarkable growth. Over the past several years, we’ve raised more than $350 million in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, bringing Cedar’s valuation to $3.2 billion.

As of December 2023, Cedar is engaging with 25 million patients on an annualized basis, and is on target to process $2.6 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar’s ambition is to serve 50-60 million Americans by 2025, about half of the U.S. population that makes medical payments annually. Cedar partners with more than 55 leading healthcare providers and payers including Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, Novant Health, Allina Health and Providence.