Senior Engineering Manager

Talkiatry•,

1d•$180,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Talkiatry is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead its Data Engineering team. The team owns the data platform, including ingestion from the EHR and partner feeds, the Snowflake environment, orchestration and CI/CD, and outbound integrations that deliver data to partner and vendor systems. The analytics engineering team builds reporting and analytics logic on top of the platform, and the role works closely with that team. The platform supports many areas of the business, including billing, clinical operations, patient communications, marketing, and partner integrations. The Senior Engineering Manager is accountable for platform reliability and partners with the data product manager to translate stakeholder problems into technical plans the team can execute. The role is being hired ahead of planned team growth as the company expands into new lines of business. Talkiatry is a technology-powered, in-network psychiatry practice focused on making high-quality mental health care more accessible and sustainable for patients and clinicians. The company describes itself as the largest dedicated psychiatry practice in the U.S., with more than 750 psychiatrists, 250 therapists, and over two million patient visits delivered nationwide.

Requirements

At least 6 years of data engineering experience.
At least 2 years of engineering management experience.
Hands-on technical experience with Snowflake, dbt, Python, and SQL.
Experience administering a cloud data warehouse, including access control, cost management, and environment and release processes.
Comfort running production services in a cloud environment; AWS, containerized workloads, and serverless functions are preferred.
Experience owning production data systems, including orchestration tools such as Airflow, monitoring and alerting, and incident response.
Experience applying CI/CD and automated testing to data pipelines.
Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Track record of delivering complex software projects on time.
Ability to balance business needs with technical excellence.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with data in a HIPAA-compliant environment.
Experience building and maintaining integrations with third-party systems and APIs.
Working knowledge of dimensional modeling and data warehouse design tradeoffs.
Experience consolidating fragmented scheduling onto a single orchestration platform.
Experience with Fivetran or similar ELT tooling.
Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools; Talkiatry’s DevOps team owns most of this area.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for the foundational data processing platform.
Drive technical strategy and execution across Snowflake, dbt, Python services on AWS (Lambda and ECS), and Airflow orchestration.
Own the Snowflake environment, including access and permissions, warehouse configuration, and cost management.
Own system reliability, including on-call readiness, incident triage, and post-mortems, with escalation to engineering leadership.
Collaborate with product, business, and engineering teams to create high-impact solutions.
Work with analytics engineering on schema and platform changes, and with DevOps on cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
Establish engineering practices and technical standards for code review, testing, documentation, and CI/CD.
Set goals, prioritize work, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions.
Mentor team members and support their professional growth.
Contribute to Talkiatry’s engineering and management culture.