Manager, Data Engineering

Company Description

Amwell is a leading telehealth platform in the United States and globally, connecting and enabling providers, insurers, patients, and innovators to deliver greater access to more affordable, higher quality care. Amwell believes that digital care delivery will transform healthcare. The Company offers a single, comprehensive platform to support all telehealth needs from urgent to acute and post-acute care, as well as chronic care management and healthy living. With over a decade of experience, Amwell powers telehealth solutions for over 2,000 hospitals and over 55 health plan partners with over 36,000 employers, covering over 80 million lives.

Brief Overview:

Role Description:

In this role, you'll lead a team of 10 – 15 data engineers, working closely with your direct reports, product managers, UI/UX designers, QA, and other engineering teams to build the future state data platform for Amwell.

A successful candidate will have an established background with strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and the motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment

Core Responsibilities:

• lead a team of 10 - 15 data engineers, delivering highly available and reliable software for large, critical, and complex systems

• Define and drive tactical decisions around Data Platform domain while providing input into larger strategic decisions around data infrastructure.

• Manage a team of hardworking Data Platform engineers, supporting career and technical development opportunities
• Work with product engineering, product management and other stakeholders to build and maintain a technical roadmap that solves our biggest data challenges

• Ensure your team delivers an extraordinary output and continuously seeks ways to make an outsized impact
• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
• Prioritize, plan projects and features, and manage sprint planning

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional experience working as a data engineer, software engineer, or related field
• 3+ years of management experience leading data engineering teams.
• History of defining team mission & executing deliverables on time.
• Experience in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.
• Experience working in agile environment
• A bias to action & ability to motivate a team to challenge conventional software engineering thinking.
• Experience with cloud-based data lake architecture with GCP and BigQuery
• Expertise in SQL, Python, and system architecture
• Ability to lead technical design sessions and influence code reviews too.

Team Description:

Our Engineering team is working to create a state-of-the-art telehealth experience leveraging all the modern cloud technologies. The team is building next generation data platform to bring data across multiple systems to drive the insights. We follow pragmatic Agile methodology to balance feature requests, strategic initiatives, tech debt to deliver a market-leading product to a quickly growing customer base. There are countless opportunities to make an impact.

Working at Amwell

We strive to make the hard work of healthcare look easy. In order to make this a reality, we look for people with a fast-paced, mission-driven mentality. We’re a go-getter culture that prides itself on quality, efficiency, smarts, initiative, creative thinking, and a strong work ethic. Amwell is headquartered in Boston, MA with additional offices in Reston, VA and Seattle, WA.  In addition to the opportunity to build the future of healthcare technology, we offer:

• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• 401K match
• Competitive health, dental and vision insurance plans
• The equipment and resources needed to be successful working in a remote setting