Senior Manager, Platform

📋 Job Overview

As Senior Manager, Platform, you will lead the team responsible for the design, operation, availability, and continuous improvement of HealthVerity’s internal cloud infrastructure and platform services. Your team manages the foundational platforms that power our data and application environments, primarily AWS and Databricks, ensuring they are reliable, performant and scalable.

You will collaborate cross-functionally to implement best-in-class architecture and automation, enabling our systems to meet growing business demands. With a team composed primarily of in-office engineers in Philadelphia and several remote team members, you will drive strategic infrastructure initiatives, foster team development, and ensure our platforms are secure, available, observable and cost-efficient.

🏢 About HealthVerity

HealthVerity is the leader in privacy-protected real-world data exchange, transforming how healthcare and life sciences organizations connect and analyze disparate patient data. By enabling access to the industry’s largest RWD ecosystem, HealthVerity supports critical applications in clinical development, commercial strategy, regulatory decision-making, and public health. To learn more about HealthVerity, visit healthverity.com.

🎯 The Role

Lead and manage a team responsible for HealthVerity’s internal cloud infrastructure and platform services, focusing on AWS and Databricks environments. Ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of these platforms while driving strategic initiatives and fostering team development.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of platform, DevOps, and data infrastructure engineers
• Ensure reliability and performance of AWS and Databricks-based infrastructure
• Implement observability, SLOs, and automated incident response
• Define and drive infrastructure strategy for scale, security, and efficiency
• Standardize IaC practices using CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation
• Build internal developer tools and shared microservices
• Provide availability & capacity management over traditional server/network infrastructure within a 3rd party data center with the long term aim of optimizing data center usage.
• Own and optimize cloud infrastructure across compute, data, and orchestration layers
• Partner cross-functionally on architecture, compliance, and long-term planning
• Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization on Platform initiatives and internal customer requirements.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering.
• 3+ years of experience leading, managing, and motivating engineering teams, ideally in hybrid or distributed environments.
• Strong background in cloud-native infrastructure using AWS services (e.g., S3, EMR, Lambda, ECS, EventBridge).
• Deep understanding of Databricks, Spark, and scalable data pipeline architectures.
• Deep understanding of the optimization of cloud resources (FinOps best practices).
• Demonstrated ability to manage platform operations at scale while ensuring security, reliability, and compliance.
• Proven experience in platform observability, system performance optimization, and automation. Proven experience with availability & capacity management and planning.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Proficient with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions).
• Coding ability in Python and SQL; familiarity with containerized and serverless architectures.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

🎁 Benefits

Compensation: competitive base salary & annual bonus opportunity (for non-commissioned roles)
Benefits: We offer health, dental, and vision coverage starting on day 1. We also offer a 401(k) plan and an equity program, with new hire equity grants beginning at the Director level and above.
Flexible location: Remote workdays and 3 days a week of in-office collaboration for team members in the Philadelphia area. Check location requirements with the recruiting team.
Generous PTO: Take time off as needed, targeted at 4 weeks per year, including vacation, personal and sick time, plus paid parental leave.
Parental Leave: 12 weeks paid leave for childbearing, surrogacy, and adoption; 6 weeks for non-childbearing parents.
Comprehensive and individualized onboarding: mentorship program, departmental talks, and a library of resources are available beginning day 1 for each new team member to minimize the stress of starting a new job
Professional development: biweekly 1:1s, hands-on leadership that is goal-and growth-oriented for each team member, and an annual budget to support professional development pursuits

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Due to tax and labor regulations, we can only hire from specific states. Remote work is supported in the following key hub locations and approved states: CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, MA, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TN, and VA. Remote opportunities are not available in all areas and require team members to work from a fixed location due to tax and labor law implications - specific questions about remote positions can be discussed during the interview process with your recruiter.