Sr. Data Engineering Manager

Akido

15h•$200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Akido builds AI-powered doctors. Akido is the first AI-native care provider, combining cutting-edge technology with a nationwide medical network to address America’s physician shortage and make exceptional healthcare universal. Its AI empowers doctors to deliver faster, more accurate, and more compassionate care. Serving 500K+ patients across California, Rhode Island, and New York, Akido offers primary and specialty care in 26 specialties—from serving unhoused communities in Los Angeles to ride-share drivers in New York. Founded in 2015 (YC W15), Akido is expanding its risk-bearing care models and scaling ScopeAI, its breakthrough clinical AI platform. Read more about Akido’s $60M Series B. More info at Akidolabs.com. The Opportunity We are hiring a Senior Data Engineering Manager to lead, scale, and modernize our data engineering function. This is a highly technical player–coach role. You will manage 2 full-time data engineers and 2 part-time supporting resources, set technical direction, enforce engineering standards, and ensure the reliability and evolution of Akido’s modern data platform. This role is critical to supporting ongoing acquisitions. You will design and evolve a data platform capable of rapidly ingesting, normalizing, migrating, and integrating newly acquired healthcare data assets into Akido’s infrastructure and tech stack. There is strong potential for growth into a Director-level role as the organization scales.

Requirements

8+ years of software or data engineering experience
3+ years of engineering leadership experience
Deep experience with modern data stacks (Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, AWS)
Experience designing scalable ingestion architectures and schema normalization strategies
Experience migrating legacy or acquired data pipelines to modern infrastructure
Strong architectural judgment and production ownership experience
Proven ability to mentor senior engineers and raise technical standards

Nice To Haves

Experience in regulated healthcare or compliance-driven environments is a strong plus
Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a high-performing data engineering team
Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the current data platform and lead re-architecture where necessary
Own platform reliability, observability, and data quality standards
Design scalable ingestion and schema normalization frameworks to support rapid acquisition integration
Lead migration of acquired company data pipelines onto Akido’s infrastructure (Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, AWS)
Establish reusable ingestion templates and migration playbooks for external healthcare data sources
Promote reusable DBT models, strong layering practices, and self-serve analytics (Sigma)
Establish and enforce AI-assisted development as a team-wide engineering standard
Partner closely with product, engineering, analytics, and leadership
Participate in architectural reviews and code reviews to maintain a high technical bar