Job Summary:

As a Director of Data Engineering, you are responsible for data management, data governance, and data process delivery for a set of engineering teams, including budgetary oversight, recruiting and leadership across multiple engineering teams, cultivating a positive, customer-centric culture, and ensuring best practices and high code quality.

Why You'll Love Working at ClarisHealth

We believe our team deserves the best, and we’re proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your success, both at work and in life. Here’s what you can look forward to:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance – Enjoy medical, dental, and vision insurance that begins on your first day, ensuring your health and wellness are always supported.
• 401(k) with Matching and Immediate Vesting – Secure your financial future with a company match and instant vesting.
• Company-Paid Short-Term Disability (STD) – Added security for unforeseen circumstances.
• Company-Paid Personal Financial Advising – Expert guidance to help manage your finances.
• New Hire Stipend – A one-time stipend to purchase home office supplies (laptop and charging cable provided by the company).
• Pet Insurance Options – Choose from two carrier options to keep your furry friends covered.
• Paid Holidays – 9 company holidays plus 2 floating holidays for added flexibility.
• Virtual Counseling and Telemedicine – Company-paid access to mental health and medical support from the comfort of your home.
• Paid Parental Leave – Time to focus on family during this special chapter.
• Generous Vacation & Wellness Time – 4 weeks of vacation beginning accrual on day one, plus 1 additional week for wellness.
• Professional Development Stipend – After one year, enjoy a $500 annual stipend to invest in professional growth (e.g., certifications, webinars).

The Must-Haves

• BS/MS in computer science, finance, healthcare or business management field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in database development or data management solutions.
• Demonstrated track record of leadership and driving accountability within teams.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing best practices in architecture, code quality, and/or engineering process.
• Proven communication skills and the ability to work with a variety of personality types.
• Proven success at driving multiple initiatives concurrently on time.
• Must be able to clearly and succinctly communicate technical details in a simpler, business-friendly manner.
• Must be able to energize their teams and drive increasingly higher levels of excellence.

The Like-to-Haves

• 5+ years in an engineer leadership role with proven excellence in recruiting, people development, timeliness of delivery, and financial/budgetary management.
• Experience managing multiple teams of 25+ colleagues directly and indirectly.
• Healthcare system experience, especially with claims, member/eligibility and provider data
• Experience in implementing Agile best practices.
• Experience in building serverless architecture using cloud technologies or other modern technologies and methodologies. AWS experience a plus.
• Possess a well-rounded technical background with experience in various technologies and methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB, Snowflake, and/or MySQL a plus.
• Hands-on experience with .NET services a plus.
• Scrum Alliance, PMI, Six Sigma, or similar certifications are a plus.
• Strong experience with Atlassian products: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket
  

Responsibilities:

Technical & Solutioning – 40%

• Act as a high-level technical expert throughout the organization and externally with clients and partners directly, researching, evaluating, and implementing new technology solutions.
• Keep up to date on emerging technologies and best practices.
• Drive cross-team collaboration and cross-functional solutioning to ensure high-quality delivery of solutions.
• Drive ideation within the engineering teams, collaborating with product teams, business users, and senior leadership on architectural and design options.
• Work closely with product managers/product owners and quality assurance, facilitating the implementation of processes and best practices, ensuring high productivity and quality product delivery.
• Promote scrum principles and champion timely execution of sprint goals within the team.
• Identify challenges (technical and non-technical), finding solutions to help the team move forward.

Financial & Productivity – 20%

• Effectively manage a $5M+ engineering budget, pressing for maximum value for every dollar.
• Creatively solution engineering capacity needs to meet the goals of the business, via collaborative effort on forecasting and planning 6-12 months in advance.
• Ensure proper scope estimating, engineering execution, and change management.
• Implement and champion KPI metrics that encourage teams to continuously improve on execution timeliness and quality.

Leadership & Excellence – 40%

• Manage a team of engineers dedicated to building software as scalable SaaS products, inclusive of multiple database platforms.
• Provide technical and people leadership for the engineering team.
• Lead data engineering efforts by keeping the team accountable, driving timeliness, and producing great results.
• Mentor managers and leads to drive excellence and productivity within the teams.
• Perform talent management by recruiting top talent, onboarding team members, continuously evaluating team members, praising exceptional work, and improving team member competencies through coaching.
• “Represent the brand” well internally and with our clients and partners.

Other Duties:

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. This position will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties requested by his/her supervisor. Individuals will always be expected to maintain a professional work environment.

About ClarisHealth

ClarisHealth, based in Nashville, Tenn., provides health plans and payers with a better way to drive claims payment accuracy. Its proprietary, A.I.-powered enterprise technology platform Pareo® allows health plans across the U.S. to reduce manual work, gain insights into operational performance across lines of business, and accelerate their strategy to overpayment prevention – at a significantly reduced cost.

Company Culture

Our company values help everyone move in alignment toward this mission. We are …

Compassionate. We practice servant leadership, encourage inclusion and engagement, and actively acknowledge and celebrate each other’s contributions.

Communicators. We listen first with an emphasis on understanding. We seek solutions to problems, and practice radical candor with positive intent.

Challengers. We get the right stuff done right, create clarity from complexity, take accountability and ownership, and we challenge ourselves daily.

ClarisHealth embraces a supportive working culture of creativity and innovation internally termed “Got Your Back.” We live out this #GYB spirit every day by working together with team members, clients, and other partners to achieve shared goals.

For more information about ClarisHealth and our culture, please visit us at https://www.clarishealth.com/careers/.

Other

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. ClarisHealth is not able to sponsor applicants for work visas.

EOE, including Disability/Veterans; anyone needing accommodation to complete the interview process should notify the People Operations team.