# Head of Data Engineering at Pivotal Health

- Company: Pivotal Health
- What the company does: Pivotal Health delivers full-service Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) technology to help providers recover fair reimbursement with less administrative burden. Backed by Bessemer.
- Company website: https://pivotalhealth.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Williamsburg, NY
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $230K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pivotal-health/35c406ea-10d3-4399-97c9-3098b14d3579
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pivotal-health-head-of-data-engineering/

## About the role

We are hiring Pivotal’s Head of Data Engineering, an engineering leader who will own the platform, architecture, and team powering our end-to-end data infrastructure.

## What they're looking for

- You come from a strong Software Engineering background and moved into data/infrastructure space because you love building data-intensive distributed systems
- 10+ years in software / data infrastructure with proven experience in inheriting an existing platform architecture rather than needing a greenfield slate
- Deep hands-on experience with modern, code first data architectures (event streaming, distributed processing, modern lakehouses, containerized orchestration). You focus on systems engineering over legacy systems=
- You understand schema and domain model ownership belongs to the engineering team. You excel at building internal tools and APIs that make data publishing/consumption frictionless
- Able to review system design, weigh trade-offs between speed and technical debt, and stay close enough to the technology to earn the respect of senior engineers
- Experience with real-time/event driven healthcare or financial data streams (claims, clinical data, financial transactions)

Tags: Engineering