Data Platform Engineering Manager - Hands-on AI Leader

Adonis; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity packages

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

HSA

Parental leave

Commuter benefits

Office lunches

Office snacks

Generous PTO

NYC location

Job summary

Adonis, the leading AI orchestration platform for healthcare revenue cycle management, seeks a data platform leader to own the team's roadmap, delivery, and health while remaining technically credible. In a lean startup, you will be hands-on in code and pipelines during the first 30 days.

You will manage 4–6 engineers, drive architecture decisions, hire strategically, ensure production reliability, and partner with DS/ML and customer teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data or backend engineering, including 2+ years directly managing engineers with clear ownership of outcomes.
• Genuine hands-on capability today, able to pass coding screen and discuss warehouses, orchestration, and pipeline failure modes.
• Direct experience operating production data platforms: warehouse architecture (Snowflake), orchestration (Temporal/Airflow), and transformation frameworks (SQLMesh/dbt).
• Evidence of building or scaling a team: hired well, grew people, and made at least one hard people call you can talk about honestly.
• Stakeholder range: manage up with judgment, push back with business framing, and maintain relationships when saying no.
• Startup metabolism: comfortable with lean teams, shifting priorities, and staying close to the work.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 4–6 data platform engineers: performance, growth, coaching, and retention.
• Own the team roadmap with product and the Head of Data; translate ambiguous business needs into a sequenced, staffed plan and be accountable for delivery.
• Set architecture direction with senior ICs; review designs, negotiate trade-offs, and know when to overrule or defer.
• Own hiring: sourcing, interviewing, closing, and building the team two quarters ahead.
• Run production: reliability, SLAs, on-call health, incident response, and warehouse cost as a core metric.
• Collaborate across the org with DS/ML, forward-deployed engineering, and customer-facing teams; represent the platform to executives and enterprise customers.
• Improve processes where leverage exists and cut those that don’t: planning cadence, reviews, and quality bars in a startup context.
• Drive an AI-native engineering culture; integrate AI tooling into how the team builds, reviews, and operates.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on coding

Systems design

Tools

Snowflake

Temporal

Airflow

SQLMesh

dbt

Fivetran

Datadog

Job description

Adonis, the leading AI orchestration platform for healthcare revenue cycle management, seeks a data platform leader to own the team's roadmap, delivery, and health while remaining technically credible. In a lean startup, you will be hands-on in code and pipelines during the first 30 days.

You will manage 4–6 engineers, drive architecture decisions, hire strategically, ensure production reliability, and partner with DS/ML and customer teams.