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Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering

Cohere Health · United States · On-site

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About Cohere Health

Cohere Health is a healthcare technology company, focused on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery. Backed by Flare Capital Partners.

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering to lead a critical part of Cohere Health’s Data Platform team as we continue scaling our technology, engineering practices, and client delivery capabilities.This role combines people leadership, technical judgment, and strong execution ownership to build a high-performing engineering team and drive predictable delivery, technical excellence, and operational reliability across complex data initiatives.

What they're looking for

  • Demonstrated success building, coaching, and managing high-performing engineering teams, including setting expectations, developing talent, managing performance, and creating accountability for outcomes
  • Strong technical depth in modern data platforms, including data ingestion, ETL/ELT, distributed data processing, data modeling, cloud-based data architectures, and production data systems
  • Experience with modern cloud and data technologies such as AWS, S3, Iceberg, Glue, Airflow, Spark/PySpark, Athena, or comparable technologies
  • Strong understanding of engineering quality and operational practices, including testing, data quality, observability, incident management, on-call operations, version control, CI/CD, and production reliability
More about this role

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering to lead a critical part of Cohere Health’s Data Platform team as we continue scaling our technology, engineering practices, and client delivery capabilities.This role combines people leadership, technical judgment, and strong execution ownership to build a high-performing engineering team and drive predictable delivery, technical excellence, and operational reliability across complex data initiatives. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Client Delivery, and business stakeholders to build a scalable, trusted data foundation that supports Cohere’s continued growth.

  • Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Data Platform engineering team through clear expectations, regular feedback, career development, performance management, and strong engineering leadership.
  • Own execution across complex data initiatives, translating priorities into credible delivery plans with clear scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, capacity assumptions, risks, decisions, and target dates. Maintain accountability through delivery and proactively adjust plans when scope, capacity, dependencies, or technical complexity...

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