Senior Engineering Manager 

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Role summary Join athenahealth as a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a newly formed engineering team advancing our Integration Platform. You will build and develop the team, guide technical direction, and own the delivery of scalable, reliable integration solutions. Working closely with engineering, product, architecture, and operational stakeholders, you will help simplify healthcare data exchange and improve the experience of developers, customers, and integration partners. A key focus will be advancing automation, self-service capabilities, and AI-powered tooling to reduce integration turnaround time and improve engineering productivity. Team summary The Integration Platform is part of the athenahealth Data and Ecosystem Platform subdivision. It supports internal data exchanges and connections between athenahealth and laboratories, imaging providers, registries, health information exchanges (HIEs), payers, other electronic health record (EHR) systems, faxing services, and third-party vendors serving healthcare practices. A core component is our proprietary HL7 engine, which supports more than 15,000 contexts, approximately 20,000 connections, and millions of subscriptions. These connections use protocols and connectivity methods such as SFTP, HTTPS, APIs, and VPN sockets, making scalability, performance, and reliability central to the team’s work. The platform supports inbound and outbound HL7 connections, alongside custom integrations for specific customer needs. Self-service tools and a dedicated advisory team support the onboarding, development, and validation of new integrations. The Chennai team will expand these capabilities through platform improvements, process automation, and AI-powered tools that simplify integration development, testing, and onboarding. Essential job responsibilities Drive the adoption of AI-assisted development lifecycle (AIDLC) practices across planning, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance, with appropriate engineering review and quality controls. Identify and deliver opportunities for automation, self-service, and AI-powered tooling to reduce integration turnaround time and improve developer and customer experiences. Establish and track meaningful measures of delivery predictability, software quality, platform reliability, engineering productivity, and integration turnaround time. Lead the evolution of existing systems while supporting new functionality and maintaining operational continuity. Foster agile / AIDLC development practices and use delivery outcomes and team feedback to improve how the team works. Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team, establishing clear goals, accountability, and a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.