Director of Data Product Engineering, Komodo Health
$190-285k
Salary range dependent on candidate location
Comprehensive patient journey data
Job no longer available
Comprehensive patient journey data
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$190-285k
Salary range dependent on candidate location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reduce the burden of disease.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, distributed systems, or data platform development, with 4+ years leading engineering managers or multiple teams
- Proven track record building large-scale data platforms and distributed processing pipelines using Python, SQL, Airflow, and technologies such as Snowflake, Spark, or similar
- Deep technical expertise in data modeling, schema design, and building enterprise-grade data products
- Experience driving multi-team architectural decisions and implementing long-term technical strategy
- Strong leadership abilities, with experience hiring, coaching, and mentoring technical talent
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executives and cross-functional partners
- Judgement & Creativity:
- Applies AI strategically, knowing how to use the right tools at the right time to solve problems or generate new ideas
- Uses AI to accelerate feedback loops, test ideas, and make informed decisions faster
- Applies both judgment and creativity when working with AI and understands its limitations
- Curiosity & Initiative:
- Demonstrates curiosity and initiative in exploring new AI tools and workflows relevant to their role
- Has developed or shared AI-enhanced workflows, automations, or prompts with others
- Integration & Productivity:
- Brings a reflexive AI mindset and uses AI as a natural part of their process to iterate, research, and deliver better work
- Comfortable working in AI-enhanced environments across writing, data analysis, content creation, or design
- Regularly leverages AI tools such as Notion AI, Perplexity, Claude, Descript, Runway, Midjourney, or Microsoft Copilot i.e. to improve speed, clarity, or creative output
What the job involves
- The Data Foundations & Data Products organization builds and operates the core data infrastructure that powers Komodo’s Healthcare Map and analytical products
- The team owns the ingestion, transformation, modeling, and enrichment of healthcare data at scale, enabling product teams, data scientists, and customers to leverage clean, accurate, and timely insights
- We partner closely with Engineering, Product, and cross-functional leaders to deliver reliable data platforms that drive Komodo’s mission
- This role exists to lead the engineering teams responsible for architecting and scaling Komodo’s foundational data platform and data product pipelines
- As Director of Engineering, you will set the technical vision, drive execution across multiple teams, and ensure we deliver best-in-class, scalable data products that power our platform and customer-facing offerings
- You will guide a high performing team, elevate engineering excellence, and collaborate with product, engineering, and other teams to ensure our data generates meaningful business value
- Looking back on your first 12 months at Komodo Health, you will have accomplished…
- Defined and implemented a multi-quarter technical vision and roadmap for Komodo’s data platform, improving scalability, performance, and data quality across Healthcare Map and data products
- Scaled and structured high-performing engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing managers and senior engineers
- Delivered major architectural upgrades to the data platform (pipelines, orchestration, modeling standards, developer workflow, and observability)
- Established data engineering best practices across the organization, influencing coding standards, testing frameworks, CI/CD, and operational excellence
- Improved data platform reliability and cost efficiency, demonstrating measurable improvements in timeliness, data quality, and SLA adherence
- Lead an engineering team building Data Products and pipelines that power Komodo’s platform
- Own technical strategy, architecture, and prioritization in partnership with Product, Data Science, and Platform Engineering leaders
- Drive execution of high-impact initiatives spanning ingestion, transformation, modeling, enrichment, and data platform services
- Develop engineering managers and senior engineers; model high standards for engineering excellence, reliability, and velocity
- Build a culture of ownership, inclusion, high performance, and continuous learning
- Architect and guide the design of reliable, scalable, cost-efficient data pipelines and distributed processing systems using Airflow, Python, SQL, Snowflake, and Spark
- Oversee core data modeling and schema design standards across relational, MPP, and NoSQL systems
- Ensure data quality, observability, and governance frameworks are implemented and adopted at scale
- Review technical designs, influence cross-team architectural decisions, and remove obstacles for teams
- Partner with Infra/Platform teams automation, and cost management
- Work with Product to define requirements, shape initiatives, and ensure engineering efforts align with business outcomes
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point during production incidents and drive long-term solutions
- Build trusted relationships across Data Science, GTM, and customer-facing teams to ensure data products meet customer needs
Our take
Komodo Health's Healthcare Map tracks the healthcare journeys of over 330M patients, giving providers, pharma companies, and researchers the tools to identify opportunities for care, track treatment outcomes, and uncover patterns in patient and drug behavior.
The platform tackles the fragmentation of healthcare, helping organizations act on reliable, real-world intelligence instead of incomplete or siloed date.
The company's been making some big moves recently too, with the launch of its healthcare-native AI engine Marmot™ and partnering with Anervea.ai to bring Ai directly into clinical development. With these innovations and strategic partnerships, Komodo is in a really good spot to lead the future of AI-driven healthcare intelligence.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2022
$200m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$220m
SERIES E
Total funding: $514m
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Arif Nathoo
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Medicine at Harvard. Former Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co for 7 years. Became a Senior Advisor for 2 years.
Web Sun
(Co-Founder & President)Previously worked in Sales and Marketing at Merck&Co. VP of Business Development at Campbell Alliance.
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