Director of Engineering - Data Platform

About the role:

Engineering leaders at Apixio have not only the technical chops to roll up their sleeves and provide technical guidance to major projects, but also manage and motivate teams of highly technical software engineers.

Our Data Platform teams research, design and develop technologies which process 10’s of millions of patient charts yearly and use the insights generated by our AI engine to drive workflows and provide valuable insights to our customers to improve healthcare and increase revenue.

As the Director of Engineering for the Data Platform team you will be responsible for guiding teams that manage our underlying healthcare lakehouse, machine learning platforms and data ingestion pipelines. You will be responsible for scaling and continuing to modernize each of these systems to handle the increased demand from our customers and other departments within the organization. Working closely with both the Data Science and Application teams as well as understanding the product roadmap to ensure the delivery of data and AI outcomes to others within the company will be key in this role.

In this role you will have an opportunity to make a difference in people's lives, literally.

What you will own:

• Guide, nurture & direct teams of highly technical software engineers
• Gather and prioritize requirements, with the larger team, to define high level architecture and collaborate with senior developers across the team on design
• Review and approve the detailed designs
• Drive all aspects of the development including requirements definition, design, implementation, code reviews, unit testing, and integration
• Oversee detailed designs, implementation, and test plan reviews to ensure high quality deliverables
• Work closely with stakeholders to provide status, iterative releases, and make design recommendations throughout the development
• Improve the end-end processing performance and product resiliency
  

About you:

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of hands-on technical supervision and people management experience
• Experience in one or more programming language (e.g. Java, Go, Python, Scala) and the eagerness to learn more
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and collaborate with others in solving them
• Familiarity with unit, integration and feature testing strategies. You need to be an advocate for product quality

Bonus Points:

• Experience with cutting edge technologies such as SPARK, Kubeflow, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra and Kubernetes
• Experience with delivering complex distributed systems that scale
• Experience with scaling machine learning models in production

After 3 months you will have accomplished:

• Familiarity with each of our product offerings and how data flows through our system
• Understanding of the product roadmap and how it aligns with the company goals
• Established the trust of the teams you are managing to be able to guide them to success
• Built relationships with leaders in other departments to ensure the good communication and transparency
• Identified areas of possible improvement in the systems you oversee
  

After 12 months you will have accomplished:

• Implemented changes to improve the quality of products being delivered
• Built out your teams with top class engineers
• Have each of your teams operating at optimal levels
• Ensured the delivery of initiatives as requested on time
• Helped build the short, medium and long term engineering roadmaps to guide us towards future goals
• Mentored managers reporting to you to ensure they continue to grow professionally