Head of Data Engineering

ABOUT PIVOTAL HEALTH Pivotal Health is the leading technology platform that helps healthcare providers get paid fairly in an increasingly complex reimbursement landscape. Today, many providers face persistent underpayment from health insurance companies, despite delivering high-quality care. While processes like IDR (Independent Dispute Resolution) were designed to promote fairness, they’re often administrative-heavy, time-consuming, and difficult to navigate without the right tools. Pivotal Health combines software, data, and service into a seamlessly integrated, AI-driven platform that simplifies these complex reimbursement workflows. We help providers efficiently dispute underpaid claims, reduce administrative burden, and recover the reimbursement they’re entitled to; without adding more work to already stretched teams. Our full-service IDR solution is just the starting point. We’re building solutions that enable providers to operate with clarity, control, and confidence across the reimbursement journey. ABOUT THE ROLE We are hiring Pivotal’s Head of Data Engineering, an engineering leader who will own the platform, architecture, and team powering our end-to-end data infrastructure. We view Data Engineering as a specialized discipline of Software Engineering, not a traditional analytics or database-administration function. We are looking for a systems-minded leader with strong software engineering fundamentals who treats data infrastructure with the same rigour as core backend services, emphasizing CI/CD, maintainability, scalability, and code quality over traditional GUI tools and SQL-only workflows. You will inherit an existing data foundation and lead its evolution into a modern, distributed, high-throughput platform. You will think holistically about data across its entire lifecycle: ingestion, processing, storage, and consumption interfaces. Rather than siloing data modeling within your team, you will build the platform and tools that enable the entire softw