The Role

The Head of Data Platform Engineering oversees the acquisition, storage, enrichment, and access of Sema4's data assets.

In this role, you will support multiple development leads who in turn support individual contributors in our engineering organization. You will partner closely with Product Owners to determine the best features and technology to deliver improved outcomes and features to our patient experience. As a Head of Engineering, you will also work with extended leadership in the Product & Technology Group to support our organizational strategy and tactics. You will often also work with stakeholders in our business teams for data and operations deliverables to ensure you understand the fundamentals of our company goals to provide value to all our customers. You will be directly supported by the Head of Engineering.

With our engineering colleagues, you will work to ensure your teams have clearly defined objectives and are able to formulate tractable plans for execution. Your role is to provide guidance and support, rather than dictate a plan. Your team will value you for your experience, foresight, and ability to anticipate and support the team through challenges in their execution. You will work with our Product team to guide them in the best technical approaches to providing good outcomes for our customers, rather than simply translating feature requests into engineering tickets. With the extended leadership of the organization, you will work to find the best strategies for our technical platform and applications, and the help to refine our operational models to accelerate the development of robust and modular software that can adapt quickly to future needs of the product and business teams.

Experience, Traits, and Skills

• Demonstrated experience leading a team of teams
• Experience leading integrated development with domestic and offshore resources
• Ability to lead and motivate through support and service of a team
• Demonstrated ability to manage execution with an organizational P&L model
• Familiarity with enterprise SaaS software design patterns
• Expertise in designing adaptable, service-oriented application architectures
• Comfortable guiding Javascript-based front-end applications
• Experience with modern n-tier web application development and operations
• Experience with data warehousing, preferable with AWS Redshift, at scale
• Experience with scalable cloud architectures and methods for cost control
• Experience with security, compliance, and data governance patterns

The Responsibilities

• Support and guide development of our data software systems by a team of 10-15 engineers and leads.
• Develop and maintain a technology roadmap supporting the needs of our product roadmap
• Manage and adhere to operating budgets—both cost of goods sold (COGS) and operating expenses (OpEx)—for the data portfolio
• Ensure clarity in the objectives of the team
• Ensure quality in the plans for execution by the team
• Ensure accountability and communication of progress within and between teams
• Ensure high performance in our team by guiding effective tactics and operational models

The Objectives

• Data acquisition is refactored into an extensible, modular system for importing and normalizing patient data received from external partners
• Deliver customer-facing web applications ("portals") allowing secure, performant access and visualization of Sema4 data, both in aggregate and in detail.
• Design and develop a data warehouse capable of housing Sema4 data and then making that data accessible to a variety of internal customers for a variety of purposes, including R&D and business intelligence
• Develop and institute a revised operational model for centralized data development within the product team
• Reduce operating expenses of development by 15% in 2023
• Document data workflows using the C4 model (c4model.com) to the third tier of fidelity
• Data platform interfaces are documented and published on SwaggerHub using the Swagger/OpenAPI standard.

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Sema4 and GeneDx are now a combined company – and we are hiring brilliant talent to make an impact on the lives of our patients! Please consider applying for one of our available positions. The job opening below can also be found on the Sema4 Careers site. You need only apply to one job posting as the Sema4 and GeneDx talent acquisition teams are fully integrated.