athenahealth

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Executive Director- Engineering- Data and Ecosystem Platform

Position: Executive Director, Engineering – Data and Ecosystem Platform, Boston/US

Position Summary: The Executive Director Engineering, Data and Ecosystem Platform is responsible for driving vision and purpose, engineering excellence, and delivering outcomes in the Data Platform zone. This role involves building the roadmap for the team by collaborating with various Architects, Product Managers, UX, and other team members across the US and AHI. This includes driving the broader vision around data analytics, pipelines, governance, frameworks, internal and external source processing, and leveraging AI capabilities. This role requires a visionary leader with a strong technical background and a proven track record in managing large-scale data systems and analytics platforms.

Essential Functions:

• Building Effective Teams: Maintain product knowledge, provide managerial oversight, clarify roles, set performance goals, reward team efforts.
• Driving Execution and Outcomes: Maintain technical knowledge, participate in release planning, manage risks, shape product vision, monitor budgets, ensure quality releases.
• Engineering Excellence: Align release planning, create organizational change initiatives, resolve dependencies, uphold software architecture standards, advocate for best practices.
• Agile: Champion agile methodologies, optimize customer outcomes, lead innovation efforts, promote collaboration.
• Communicates Effectively: Create venues for dialogue, demonstrate openness, communicate to various audiences, promote information flow.
• Ensures Accountability: Monitor performance, create accountability environment, ensure commitments are met.
• Balances Stakeholders: Collaborate with various teams, respond to stakeholder needs, optimize decisions, consider cultural and ethical factors.
• Strategic Mindset: Clarify vision and strategy, prioritize efforts, pursue sustainable value, leverage competitive advantages.

Education, Experience, & Skills Required:

• 15+ years of experience leading global and distributed teams delivering scalable software solutions
• Experience in leading teams in building enterprise scale data architecture and data pipelines; platforms for reporting, data engineering, analytics, and solving business and healthcare problems
• Track record of developing employees both technically and professionally
• Hands-on experience working in an Agile environment
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, C#, NodeJS, and Python
• Experience in distributed systems and Cloud-based architecture especially pertaining to large data warehouses and data lakes like Snowflake and Databricks
• Experience with real time data pipelines and streaming analytics like Kafka, AWS Kinesis, AWS MSK, Redis, or Apache Spark
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux, Big Data, SQL, NOSQL, and other related technologies
• Familiarity with developments in AI technologies

About athenahealth

Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

What’s unique about our locations?

From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.

Our company culture might be our best feature.

We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.

Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.

Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability.

Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.

What can we do for you?

Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And we provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.

We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.

athenahealth is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity—that’s why we recruit and hire applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor prohibited by law. We’re happy to provide a reasonable accommodation, for those with a disability, to complete any part of the application process. If you are unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, please contact us at taoperations@athenahealth.com for assistance.

https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity