Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cedar is a healthcare technology company focused on making healthcare more affordable and accessible through data science, smart product design, and personalization. The Sr. Director of Data & Integrations Engineering will lead approximately 35 engineers across Data Engineering, Integration Engineering, and Integration Support Engineering, driving delivery predictability, people development, operational excellence, data platform evolution, integration scalability, organizational clarity, and cross-functional partnership.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain the processes, rituals, and accountability structures that keep three parallel workstreams (greenfield platform work, client-facing implementations, and live production operations) shipping on time and with high quality
- Grow an effective layer of engineering managers and help them build high-performing, engaged teams
- Own the reliability and SLA performance of Cedar's integration systems
- Reduce MTTI, MTTR, and systemic incident rates
- Build a culture where operational quality (observability, on-call discipline, postmortem rigor) is a first-class engineering value, not an afterthought
- Partner with the Principal Data Architect to keep Cedar's data platform transition on track: migration from legacy systems, adoption of new architecture across the organization, and ensuring that downstream consumers (product engineering, data science, analytics, and AI/ML) have trusted, accessible data when they need it
- Reduce the time and cost of onboarding new clients and enabling new product lines
- Advance the integration frameworks and patterns that let your teams scale their impact without scaling headcount proportionally
- Build the structures (intake processes, prioritization frameworks, escalation paths) that protect your teams from the constant pull of ad-hoc requests and shifting priorities
- Coach your managers to run their teams with increasing autonomy: to hold a line, uphold a roadmap, and absorb pressure without needing escalation assistance
- Build an org that operates with discipline even when the environment around it is noisy
- Build effective relationships with Product, Data Science, Commercial, and Delivery Engineering
- Represent your teams' capacity and priorities clearly; negotiate trade-offs constructively; keep issues surfaced and resolved before they become crises
Skills
- **12+ years** **in software engineering** or **technical implementation**, with meaningful time in data-intensive, integration-heavy, or platform domains
- **8+ years in engineering leadership**, including 4+ years managing managers, ideally with direct experience overseeing an org of 30+ engineers
- **Solid technical grounding** in integration systems and data. You engage credibly with principals and managers on architecture trade-offs, operational risk, and build-vs-buy decisions. You don't need to be the deepest expert, but you need to know when to push back and when to trust
- **High tolerance for ambiguity, with a demonstrated talent for reducing it.** Cedar moves fast and the environment is genuinely noisy. You don't need a clean brief to start moving. You've thrived in orgs where priorities shift, asks are imperfect, and the path forward requires synthesis rather than instruction. You create structure from chaos without waiting for someone else to hand it to you
- **Operational instincts.** You've owned SLAs, on-call programs, incident management, or client-facing reliability commitments, and you've built the systems and culture to sustain them
- **Effective cross-functional stakeholder management, including executive presence.** You can translate between engineering realities and business priorities without losing either side. You've navigated trade-off conversations with product, finance, and executive audiences, and you're comfortable representing your teams' work, priorities, and risks clearly in front of C-suite leadership
- **Healthcare domain experience**, particularly in revenue cycle management, EHR data models, or healthcare interoperability (HL7/FHIR). The integration complexity at Cedar is significant, and domain context accelerates both credibility and impact
- **AI-forward mindset**. You believe agentic developer tooling is a genuine force accelerator, not a passing trend, and you set expectations from the front on adoption. You actively model AI-native workflows for your managers and teams, and you create the space and expectation for engineers to integrate these tools into how they build, debug, and ship. You've seen what happens when a team gets this right, and you want to make it happen again
Benefits
- This role is equity eligible
- This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
- 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 vacation 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 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)
- Equity (for qualifying roles)
- Health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance, 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
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