Senior Director, Data Science & Engineering

Job Title: Senior Director, Data Science & Engineering

Department: Product Development 

About the Role: 

The Senior Director, Data Science & Engineering owns the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of Unite Us' data platform and Insights product line, spanning both data engineering and data science disciplines. You will manage a team of managers and senior individual contributors, ensuring the group's roadmap balances technical soundness, business impact, and long-term platform scalability.
You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Analytics leadership to translate company strategy into a coherent multi-team roadmap, while remaining close enough to the technical details to make sound architectural tradeoffs, evaluate build-vs-buy decisions, and unblock complex cross-team dependencies. You have deep knowledge of modern software & data platforms (cloud infrastructure, complex software systems, data pipelines, data warehousing, and applied data science/ML) and healthcare or social-care data standards, and you use that knowledge to raise the bar for engineering and analytical rigor across the group.

You will build, mentor, and manage a group of engineering and data science managers, define what a high-performing team looks like, and hold the organization accountable to that bar. You are comfortable operating with significant autonomy, managing up and across the organization, and representing the data organization to executive stakeholders.

What You'll Do:

Team Leadership & People Development

• Lead, mentor, and grow a group of engineering and data science managers, and, through them, their teams of data engineers, analysts, and data scientists.
• Set and hold a high bar for technical talent across the data organization; define career ladders and growth paths for managers and senior ICs.
• Manage team-of-teams performance from both a technical and personnel perspective, including performance calibration and succession planning.

Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the data platform and Insights product line, partnering with Product and Engineering leadership to balance innovation with business priorities.
• Establish and enforce engineering and analytical best practices across teams: code review standards, testing, CI/CD, model validation, monitoring, and incident response.
• Guide architecture decisions across data pipelines, the data lakehouse/warehouse, and applied data science/ML workflows, validating designs in AWS.
• Drive consistency and efficiency in data pipeline implementations and cross-product data/testing/deployment standards.

Roadmap & Execution

• Own creation and execution of the group's multi-quarter roadmap, sequencing initiatives and aligning timelines with business goals.
• Manage capacity planning and prioritization across multiple teams, resolving contention and dynamically responding to shifting priorities.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks before they become roadblocks, escalating judiciously and without damaging relationships.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Act as a thought partner to Product, UX, and Analytics counterparts on the Insights roadmap and broader data strategy.
• Represent the data organization to senior leadership and executive stakeholders, translating high-level initiatives into actionable team goals and reporting on key performance indicators.
• Partner with Application Engineers, Product Managers, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable pipeline and platform designs.

Hiring & Talent

• Identify, recruit, and hire the best engineering and data science talent for the organization, including manager-level hires.

You’re a great fit for this role if:

• 8+ years of progressive experience across software engineering, data engineering, and/or data science, including experience leading multi-team initiatives.
• 5+ years of people management experience, including experience managing managers or senior individual contributors.
• At least 2+ years in healthcare, digital health, or health technology, using Agile delivery methodologies.
• Experience building complex software and data products within healthcare and/or government settings, with demonstrable success.
• Experience with data pipeline architectures (e.g., Apache Airflow), complex software systems, large-scale databases and/or cloud data warehousing platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks), including performance tuning and cost management.
• Working knowledge of applied data science/ML workflows and how they integrate with production data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of programming languages and paradigms, including SQL and Python.
• Experience operating in a regulated or compliance-sensitive data environment.
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to represent technical strategy to non-technical executive audiences.
• BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Our Mission:

Unite Us’ mission is to unlock the potential of every community. Our co-founders started Unite Us in 2013 to serve the people they served with. They witnessed firsthand the barriers and inefficiencies in trying to navigate health and social services, and set out to improve that experience for veterans and their families. Unite Us quickly expanded to serving all people who need connections to care across our country. Through Unite Us’ national network and software, community-based organizations, government agencies, and healthcare organizations are all connected to better collaborate to meet the needs of the individuals in their communities. We drive the collaboration to predict, deliver, and pay for services that impact whole-person health. If you want to do well and do good, join Unite Us.

Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions:

• This position is remote, U.S. based. Strong preference for candidates comfortable working in ET/CT time zones.
• This position may require 5-10% travel
• The target pay range for this role is: $225,000-$275,000. This salary range represents our target hiring range for this role. The proposed salary will be dependent on the candidate's skills, experience, and competencies, as well as location.
• All team members will be required to pass a background check which includes criminal, employment, and education verification 

Benefits provided by Unite Us:

Medical, Dental, and Vision

We offer insurance to team members and eligible partners and dependents, including unlimited virtual mental health and acute medical visits.

Wellness

Mental health benefits, such as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness platform subscription, are available to all team members.

Flexible Time Off

Take what you need, including volunteer days and mental health days. We also offer 14 paid, company-wide holidays.
Paid Parental Leave

Adoptive parents are included.

Employee Resource Groups

Join our ERGs to connect and engage with colleagues, like Military Veterans

Spending Accounts

We offer tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and commuter benefits.

401(k) + Employer Match

Enjoy matching, immediate vesting and financial wellness resources

Additional Benefits

Life and AD&D - a company paid benefit, with the option to purchase additional coverage for yourself and your dependents

Disability Coverage

Accident Insurance

Pet Insurance

As part of this work at home job, we will provide you with all the necessary equipment to perform your duties, including a computer, mouse, keyboard as well as other items on our approved list of WFH supplies.

Unite Us is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive culture, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in race, religion, color, national origin, gender, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, medical conditions, and other characteristics. If you require assistance in applying for open positions due to a disability please email us at [email protected] to request an accommodation.

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