Abacus Insights

Abacus Insights is a mission-driven, growth-stage technology company focused on transforming the healthcare industry, ultimately creating a more personalized patient experience, improving health outcomes, and lowering the overall cost of healthcare. Abacus Insights provides a flexible, efficient, and secure platform that organizes and exchanges healthcare data from various sources and formats. Our platform allows our customers to uncover differentiated insights that address their client's needs. In addition, our employees know they play an active role in keeping our customers' data safe and are responsible for ensuring that our comprehensive policies and practices are met.

With our deep expertise in cloud-enabled technologies and knowledge of the healthcare industry, we have built an innovative data integration and management platform that allows healthcare payers access to historically siloed and inaccessible data. Through our platform, these healthcare organizations can ingest and manage all the data they need to transform their business by supporting their analytical, operational, and financial needs.

Since our founding in 2017, Abacus has built a highly successful SaaS business, raising $100 Million from leading VC firms with deep expertise in the healthcare and technology industries. We are solving problems of massive scale and complexity in a sector ready for disruption. We're growing quickly and would love for you to be a part of it!

About the Role:

The Engineering Manager for the Data Distribution team is responsible for guiding a dedicated group of engineers who design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure data pipelines. This position demands strong leadership skills, strategic vision, and the ability to create a collaborative and growth-oriented culture. As Engineering Manager, you will oversee projects that directly impact organizational decisions, drive product innovation, and support customer success.

You Will:

Team Leadership & Development

• Mentor and coach engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, feedback sessions, and structured career development plans.
• Promote a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Manage recruitment, onboarding, and resource allocation.

Project & Delivery Management

• Lead project planning, execution, and delivery of impactful data solutions.
• Manage sprint cycles, prioritize backlogs, and coordinate cross-functional dependencies.
• Ensure timely completion of high-quality, high-performance features.

Technical Strategy & Execution

• Oversee architectural decisions and technical reviews for data pipelines and ETL workflows.
• Champion best practices in data engineering, including observability, testing, and documentation.
• Encourage adoption of modern tools like Databricks, Snowflake and PySpark.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and QA to define requirements and deliver effective solutions.
• Communicate progress, potential risks, and blockers to leadership and stakeholders.
• Align engineering work with broader business goals and strategies.

Process Optimization & Quality Assurance

• Implement agile practices such as retrospectives and continuous improvement.
• Monitor and enhance pipeline performance, data reliability, and latency.
• Maintain compliance with data governance and security protocols.

What We're Looking For:

• Demonstrated experience managing engineering teams in data-driven environments.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Experienced with agile methodologies and cross-functional teamwork.
• Background in managing data teams focused on US healthcare data analysis.

Nice to Have:

• Databricks, Snowflake, SQL, PySpark
• Git, CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)

Equal Opportunity Employer

As a mission-led technology company helping to drive better healthcare outcomes, Abacus Insights believes that the best innovation and value we can bring to our customers comes from diverse ideas, thoughts, experiences, and perspectives. Therefore, we dedicate resources to building diverse teams and providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants. Abacus prohibits discrimination and harassment regarding race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.