Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

Our healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Every year, over 50 million Americans suffer adverse financial consequences as a result of seeking care, from lower credit scores to garnished wages. The challenge is only getting worse, as high deductible health plans are the fastest growing plan design in the U.S.

Cedar’s mission is to leverage data science, smart product design and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Today, healthcare providers still engage with its consumers in a “one-size-fits-all” approach; and Cedar is excited to leverage consumer best practices to deliver a superior experience.

The Role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Data Engineering team as we continue to invest in a high quality data platform at Cedar. This role sits at the critical intersection of our billing systems, data architecture, and executive reporting.

Your team’s mandate is to strengthen the pipelines that power client billing, financial reporting, and machine learning. In this role, you aren’t just moving data; you are building the definitive record of our company’s revenue. You will lead the transition from raw data flows to a reliable, auditable "gold" layer that provides total clarity for our executive and finance teams.

What You Will Do

• Grow and Guide: Manage a team of 3–6 specialized data engineers. You will focus on career coaching, technical mentorship, and fostering a culture of ownership and high quality.

• Bridge the Gap: Navigate conversations between finance, product, and data science teams. You will resolve conflicting business logic and turn it into clear, standardized code.

• Mission-Critical Reliability: Take ownership of the pipelines powering client billing. You will ensure our data in Snowflake is durable, easy to audit, and serves as the single source of truth for the entire company.

• Design for Accuracy: Evolve the systems that calculate fees and generate insights. You will reduce manual work and data errors by building automated, resilient pipelines that catch issues before they reach the client.

• Advocate for Data Quality: Work with software teams to ensure that changes to our apps don't break our billing or machine learning models downstream.

Our Tech Stack

• Ingestion: Fivetran for automated ELT, Snowpipe for continuous loading, and Kafka for real-time event streaming.

• Warehouse: Snowflake utilizing a Bronze/Silver/Gold architecture.

• Transformation: dbt with integrated testing and CI/CD.

• Orchestration: Airflow managing complex billing and reporting workflows.

• Governance: OpenMetadata treating data as a reliable internal product.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: 7+ years of hands-on data engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership role (EM or Tech Lead) managing performance and growth.

• Rigor: A background in building high-reliability systems where accuracy is paramount (e.g., billing, fintech, or regulated environments).

• System Design: A track record of turning messy or disconnected data into trusted, easy-to-use data products.

• Managing Ambiguity: Proven ability to lead projects where requirements change and stakeholders (like finance vs. product) have different priorities.

• Technical Depth: SQL and deep experience with a modern data stack (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, Airflow).

• Nice to have: Familiarity with healthcare RCM reporting metrics or core financial performance metrics

What This Role Is Not

• Not "Hands-Off": You must be willing to dive into data models and SQL logic to unblock your team and ensure the work is solid. Your time will likely be split 40% team leadership, 30% technical leadership and 30% cross functional alignment.

• Not Greenfield-Only: You will need to navigate legacy systems and specific customer edge cases to move the company toward a cleaner future.

• Not a Silo: Success requires influencing people outside your team; you are a strategic partner to Finance and Product leadership.

• Not General Infrastructure: Your focus is on the meaning of the data and financial accuracy, not managing DevOps or internal developer tools.

Compensation Range and Benefits:

• Salary Range*: $195,500 - 230,000

• This role is equity eligible

• This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package

*Subject to location, experience, and education

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What do we offer to the ideal candidate?

• 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)

• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and 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

About us

Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company fueled by remarkable growth. "Over the past several years, we've raised more than $350 million in funding & have the active support of Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

As of November 2024, Cedar is engaging with 26 million patients annually and is on target to process $3.5 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar partners with more than 55 leading healthcare providers and payers including Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, Novant Health, Allina Health and Providence.