
VP Enterprise Engineering – Business Platforms
Datavant
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $250,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Define and own the architectural vision for Datavant’s enterprise business platform domain
- Establish clear system boundaries, integration patterns, and governance standards across dozens of applications
- Prevent platform fragmentation and over-customization, particularly within Salesforce and financial systems
- Define integration architecture strategy, including middleware, API management, and event-driven patterns
- Build a scalable platform model that can absorb new business domains and acquisitions
- Own the engineering architecture supporting billing, revenue recognition, contract management, and financial reporting
- Modernize financial system patterns to support growth, complex pricing models, and compliance requirements
- Partner closely with Finance leadership to ensure systems are scalable, audit-ready, and operationally resilient
- Ensure revenue-critical systems operate with appropriate reliability, controls, and incident management
- Own engineering strategy and architectural governance for Salesforce and related CRM systems
- Drive consolidation of multiple environments and establish strong data standards and change control
- Ensure CRM remains a customer relationship platform — not a substitute for an ERP or an operational catch-all
- Govern vendor and implementation partners to reduce architectural drift and technical debt
- Establish middleware as a first-class platform capability with defined ownership and architectural standards
- Clarify integration ownership and reduce reliance on contractors for core capabilities
- Define durable API and event-driven integration patterns across enterprise systems
- Ensure secure, reliable data flow across financial, CRM, and operational systems
- Govern enterprise automation capabilities including managed file transfer, RPA, and AI-enabled workflow initiatives
- Ensure emerging AI-driven systems (including contact center automation) are architecturally integrated and aligned with enterprise standards
- Prevent fragmented automation point solutions across teams
- Align automation initiatives to measurable business outcomes and operational resilience
- Consolidate and harden customer-facing authentication and authorization into a unified, secure platform
- Improve reliability and reduce support burden related to login and access flows
- Ensure identity infrastructure scales with growth and meets healthcare compliance requirements
- Lead and develop directors and managers across financial systems, CRM, middleware, and automation
- Assess organizational structure and talent against long-term platform demands
- Build engineering depth to reduce vendor dependency in strategic areas
- Establish a culture of architectural ownership, operational discipline, and cross-domain collaboration
- Manage significant vendor and contractor relationships with clear accountability and transition planning
- Partner with recruiting to build senior enterprise platform engineering capacity globally.
Requirements
- 15+ years in technology leadership. 5+ years leading enterprise engineering or platform organizations at the VP or senior director level
- Proven experience architecting and operating complex multi-platform enterprise ecosystems
- Deep understanding of integration architecture, middleware, APIs, and event-driven system design
- Strong experience managing COTS platforms (e.g., Salesforce, NetSuite, or equivalent) without allowing architectural drift or over-customization
- Experience modernizing financial or revenue systems in high-growth or acquisition-driven environments
- Demonstrated ability to consolidate fragmented ownership models and build durable engineering organizations
- Experience operating in regulated or compliance-heavy industries (healthcare, life sciences, or financial services preferred)
- Ability to communicate decisions clearly, align stakeholders, and make definitive architecture/vendor calls under ambiguity
- Experience managing geographically distributed teams and significant vendor ecosystems.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
integration architecturemiddlewareAPI managementevent-driven system designfinancial systems modernizationenterprise platform architectureautomation capabilitiesdata standardsrevenue recognitioncontract management
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder alignmentorganizational structure assessmentcross-domain collaborationoperational disciplinevendor managementstrategic planningdecision-makingteam management