Full-Time
Manager of Data Platform Engineering
Atlantic Health System
5,001-10,000 employees
Non-profit healthcare provider with physician network
Compensation Overview
$74.67 - $131.44/hr
Morristown, NJ, USA
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- 8–13 years of total professional experience in software or data engineering, with at least 1-2 years in an engineering management role with direct reports.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit, develop, and retain engineering talent across levels; track record of building high-performing, cohesive teams.
- Proven experience delivering complex technical programs on time — able to manage scope, risk, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations across multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Sufficient technical depth in data engineering to earn team trust: experience with data pipelines, cloud data infrastructure, and distributed systems.
- Strong command of engineering management fundamentals: 1:1s, performance reviews, goal-setting, career development frameworks, and compensation discussions.
- Excellent communication skills — written and verbal — with the ability to tailor messaging for engineers, technical peers, and senior non-technical leadership alike.
- Experience running agile delivery processes (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid) and maintaining team-level metrics that inform planning and forecasting.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, make decisions with incomplete information, and maintain team direction and morale in periods of organizational change.
- Self-aware, empathetic, direct, and skilled at giving feedback that is candid, kind, and growth-oriented.
- Directly manage 4-5 data platform engineers across levels (Engineer I through Senior Engineer III); serve as their primary advocate, coach, and career guide.
- Conduct regular 1:1s with each direct report focused on growth, blockers, wellbeing, and career trajectory.
- Own the career development plans for each team member; set clear expectations at every level, identify growth opportunities, and provide timely, actionable feedback.
- Drive performance management end-to-end: set goals, provide continuous feedback.
- Identify high-potential engineers and create stretch opportunities that accelerate their development toward the next level.
- Foster a team culture of psychological safety, inclusion, continuous learning, and high accountability — where engineers feel empowered to take initiative and safe to raise concerns.
- Address performance gaps early and constructively
- Own the full recruitment lifecycle for your team: define headcount needs, write and refine job descriptions, run structured interview processes, and make hiring decisions.
- Partner with recruiting to build and maintain a healthy pipeline of engineering talent at all levels; actively source candidates and represent the company at recruiting events.
- Onboard new hires effectively: ensure they have a structured ramp plan, a buddy/mentor, and clear 30/60/90-day expectations from day one.
- Own the health of the team's delivery system: sprint cadence, backlog grooming, capacity planning, dependency management, and release coordination.
- Ensure the team consistently delivers against commitments; proactively identify risks, surface blockers early, and create conditions for engineers to do their best work.
- Establish and maintain clear team-level SLAs, on-call rotations, and incident response processes; hold the team accountable to reliability standards.
- Drive quarterly planning in coordination with the Lead Engineer and Director: translate organizational priorities into team-level goals, milestones, and resourcing decisions.
- Manage cross-team dependencies with partner engineering organizations (ML, Analytics); ensure alignment and resolve conflicts at the manager level.
- Own team-level reporting and status communication to leadership: weekly/bi-weekly updates, risk flags, and delivery summaries that give stakeholders accurate, timely visibility.
- Maintain sufficient technical depth to participate in architectural discussions, evaluate engineering trade-offs, assess estimates, and identify when the team is over- or under-resourced for a given problem.
- Partner closely with the Lead Data Platform Engineer to ensure technical direction is translated into executable work; bridge the gap between architectural vision and sprint-level delivery.
- Represent technical considerations in cross-functional conversations — with infrastructure, Data Science, Analytics, and Directors — and advocate for necessary infrastructure investment.
- Contribute to technical decisions where your perspective as a manager is valuable: team ergonomics, tooling adoption, process improvements, and build-vs-buy trade-offs with organizational implications.
- Stay current with data platform trends and adjacent technologies to have informed conversations with your team and with engineering leadership about the evolving landscape.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for partner Information Systems & Services(ISS) managers, and business stakeholders on matters of team delivery, capacity, and roadmap alignment.
- Represent the Data Platform Engineering team in cross-functional planning forums, leadership reviews, and all-hands; communicate team accomplishments, challenges, and needs clearly.
- Proactively build relationships with peer managers across the organization to improve cross-team collaboration, reduce friction, and identify shared investment opportunities.
- Partner with the Executive Director on budget planning, headcount justification, and tooling procurement decisions that affect the team.
- Contribute to shaping the engineering culture and management practices across the broader engineering organization — share what works, contribute to manager forums, and help raise the bar on people leadership
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant majors
- Prior hands-on experience as a data platform or data infrastructure engineer; deep familiarity with Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, Kafka, dbt, etc.
- Experience managing engineers in a platform-as-a-product or internal developer platform context, where the team's customers are other engineering teams.
- Background leading teams through significant technical transformation programs — cloud migrations, architecture re-platforms, or tooling overhauls.
- Experience building and scaling engineering teams in a high-growth environment, including rapid hiring, onboarding, and org design iterations.
- Familiarity with engineering leveling frameworks and the ability to calibrate performance and promotion decisions consistently across a team.
- Exposure to data governance, compliance, or regulatory requirements (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) that affect platform design and operations.
Atlantic Health System is a large non-profit healthcare network in New Jersey that runs hospitals, outpatient centers, urgent care clinics, and a physician-led group called Atlantic Medical Group with more than 1,000 doctors across 300 locations. It provides a full range of medical services to communities in New Jersey and New York and lets patients manage care through the MyChart portal, which handles medical records, appointments, and bill payments. Its business model puts earnings back into its healthcare services and facilities, reinvesting to improve care access and community health. The system differentiates itself by being a broad, integrated network of facilities and a large physician group under a nonprofit umbrella, offering coordinated care across many sites. Its goal is to improve community health by delivering comprehensive care and continually expanding access to high-quality medical services.
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What believers are saying
- Deployment of Artera AI agents cut colonoscopy no-shows by 39% while reducing manual call time by 38%.
- Ambient listening tools and supply robots are automating physician documentation and returning nurses to bedside care.
- The Garner Health partnership uses AI to identify high-quality, lower-cost providers, potentially lowering employer medical trends by over 5%.
What critics are saying
- Leadership instability at CentraState and Chilton with interim presidents risks physician attrition and delays strategic integration by six to nine months.
- Garner Health partnership forces diversion of high-margin elective procedures to lower-cost providers, reducing revenue per episode by 5–7%.
- A 1.7-star reputation on PissedConsumer threatens market share as New Jersey consumers increasingly rely on digital ratings for hospital selection.
What makes Atlantic Health System unique
- Atlantic Health operates one of New Jersey's largest non-profit networks with eight hospitals and 5,667 affiliated physicians.
- Its Atlantic Medical Group forms one of the state's largest multispecialty practices with nearly 2,000 physicians across 300 locations.
- The system integrates value-based care through its Clinically Integrated Network of over 4,000 providers serving 7.5 million people.
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Atlantic Health demonstrates diversion of one ton of plastic waste annually with SPC. Case studySoft plastic Single-use plastic waste is one of the most persistent challenges facing healthcare facilities today. Atlantic Health partnered with Clear Drop to pilot the Soft Plastic Compactor in their hospital pharmacy - and the results exceeded expectations. soft plastic med bags discarded daily from a single pharmacy of soft plastic diverted from landfill per hospital annually plastic waste diverted per year - from just one pharmacy location Introduction. Atlantic Health operates the nationally renowned Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, one of eight hospitals across their system serving the Northern New Jersey region. As part of their "Greening the Pharmacy" program, the hospital sought innovative solutions to address the environmental impact of their pharmacy operations. The waste problem. The main pharmacy at Atlantic Health Morristown processes hundreds of patient medication transfers daily, generating substantial amounts of soft plastic medical bags. With no viable recycling pathway in Northern NJ, these bags were being sent directly to landfill. Key Pain Points High waste volume: 550-600 plastic med bags discarded every day. No recycling pathway: Soft plastics have extremely limited recycling options in the Northern NJ region - making landfill diversion a real challenge without the right technology. Project goals. The "Greening the Pharmacy" pilot program aimed to test whether soft plastic diversion at scale was operationally feasible in a live hospital environment. Pilot Objectives * Assess the feasibility of recycling medical plastic bags at volume * Quantify waste diversion potential at facility and system-wide levels * Evaluate workflow integration without creating medication delivery bottlenecks * Test the Clear Drop SPC technology in a real-world healthcare environment The Soft Plastic Compactor solution. The SPC was deployed to process patient transfer medication bags - soft plastic bags used to deliver pharmaceuticals to patients. These bags contain no medical waste or bodily fluids, making them a clean and viable plastic recycling stream. The SPC transforms loose, bulky medical plastic bags into dense, compact blocks through a proprietary compression process. Completed blocks can be shipped efficiently to Clear Drop's recycling partners. How the workflow operated Pharmacy technicians brought all emptied patient-transfer med bags to a designated collection point in the main pharmacy. Bags were transported to a separate on-site building twice per day. The SPC compacted approximately 250-320 bags per batch - producing one 6-pound block per daily cycle in approximately one hour. Completed blocks were packaged in Clear Drop-provided bags with pre-printed labels, with up to five blocks shipped per bag. Results: waste diversion impact. The one-week pilot at Morristown Medical Center's main pharmacy demonstrated clear and measurable results. 550-600 medication bags processed through the SPC 7 compacted blocks produced, totaling 42 pounds of plastic diverted 2,184 lbs (1.09 tons) of soft plastic waste diverted per hospital - every year When extrapolated across Atlantic Health's multi-hospital system, the potential for waste diversion becomes even more substantial. The SPC pilot successfully demonstrated that Clear Drop Inc. could make a meaningful environmental impact without overhauling its entire pharmacy operation. Diverting 2,184 pounds of plastic annually from just one pharmacy shows the potential for system-wide implementation. Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center Pharmacy Team Findings and key success factors. The pilot successfully demonstrated that healthcare facilities can meaningfully reduce their environmental footprint while maintaining full operational efficiency. What made it work * Workflow integration: The SPC fit naturally into existing pharmacy operations with minimal disruption * Quantifiable impact: SPC block output enables clear reporting toward sustainability goals * Scalability: The process can expand to satellite med rooms and be replicated across multiple hospital pharmacies within the system * Operational best practices: The pilot identified optimal SPC placement in areas with adequate ventilation, and controlled feeding (rather than bulk loading) for best compression results Strategic implications for Atlantic Health. With multiple hospitals in the Atlantic Health network, system-wide implementation could divert several tons of soft plastic waste annually. This aligns with healthcare sustainability imperatives while potentially reducing waste hauling costs and demonstrating environmental leadership in the healthcare sector. The pilot also revealed opportunities for broader collaboration - expanding beyond pharmacy to other hospital departments generating soft plastic waste, and sharing best practices with other healthcare systems facing similar challenges. Bring medical plastic recycling to your healthcare facility. Atlantic Health's successful pilot positions them as a leader in healthcare sustainability innovation. The program demonstrates that with the right technology and commitment, hospitals can transform a persistent waste stream into an environmental success story - one med bag at a time. Atlantic Health continues to evaluate expansion opportunities across their hospital network as part of their ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship and operational excellence. Ready to start a pilot at your facility? Clear Drop(R) partners with hospitals and healthcare systems to reduce soft plastic waste with measurable, meaningful results.
Atlantic Health celebrates 17th year on the Fortune and Great Place to Work '100 Best Companies To Work For(R)' list. Photo Credit: Atlantic Health By Luke Margolis Published April 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM April 1, 2026, Morristown, NJ - For an incredible 17th year, Atlantic Health has earned a spot on the national Great Place to Work(R) and Fortune's list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For(R)," ranking number 75. This honor underscores Atlantic Health's commitment to fostering an exceptional workplace culture while delivering the highest quality patient care and experiences. Earning this distinction for nearly two decades affirms the health system's position as a premier employer in both New Jersey and the nation. "We are thrilled to celebrate our amazing team, the driving force behind every life we touch, every achievement, every breakthrough," said Saad Ehtisham, DHA, FACHE, President and CEO of Atlantic Health. "As a national leader in health care, we understand that our highly engaged workforce is the foundation for fulfilling our promise to patients and their families. Knowing our team feels valued, supported and connected to our purpose is our greatest honor." "For 17 years, our team has earned national recognition for creating a workplace defined by our Culture of Extraordinary Caring," said Nikki Sumpter, Executive Vice President, Chief People and Administrative Officer, Atlantic Health. "Our teams are at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to a workplace where well-being, purpose, and pride thrive. This achievement belongs to every team member who makes Atlantic Health an extraordinary place to work." Get local news you can trust in your inbox. Driven by innovation and camaraderie, Atlantic Health team members enjoy sharing in each other's successes across the system's 550 sites of care, including Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute, Atlantic Medical Group, Atlantic Health CentraState and one of the largest Accountable Care Organizations in the country. "Trust in the organization is a leading indicator of business performance," says Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work. "When employees trust their leaders, they are more willing to give extra effort, embrace innovation like new AI tools, and deliver a better experience to customers." The result is the Great Place To Work Effect, where companies can see how leadership behaviors drive measurable changes in their financial performance. "The companies on this list know that trust is a competitive edge - one that can't be stolen or mimicked by competitors or replaced by machines," Bush says. "In the face of market uncertainty, the data proves that high-trust workplaces see faster growth and higher returns." The 100 Best Companies to Work For list honors companies that build a high-trust workplace environment, measured through Great Place To Work's proprietary survey platform. Confidential feedback from more than 1.3 million employees in the U.S. is matched against HR data from participating companies. Only companies with consistently high survey responses across the 60 statements that comprise the Trust Index(TM) Survey earn placement on this exclusive list. Eligible companies must be Great Place to Work Certified(TM) and have 1,000 or more U.S. employees. Winners are assessed on their ability to create a great employee experience that cuts across job level, business unit, demographic group, or geographic location. Great Place to Work is the only company culture award in America that selects winners based on how fairly employees are treated. Atlantic Health is the only New Jersey-based health care company to be recognized on Fortune's list for 17 years. Atlantic Health appears alongside many of the nation's most successful organizations, such as Cisco, Hilton and Wegmans Food Markets. The entire 2026 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For(R) list can be viewed here. About Atlantic Health. Atlantic Health is at the forefront of medicine, setting standards for quality health care in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York metropolitan area. Powered by a workforce of 25,000 team members and more than 5,667 affiliated physicians dedicated to building healthier communities, Atlantic Health serves more than half of the state of New Jersey including 14 counties and 7.5 million people. The not-for-profit system offers more than 550 sites of care, including its eight hospitals: Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ, Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ, Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center in Newton, NJ, Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains, NJ, Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center in Hackettstown, NJ, Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital in Morristown, NJ, Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute in Madison, NJ and Atlantic Health CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, NJ. The system includes Atlantic Medical Group, part of a physician enterprise that makes up one of the largest multispecialty practices in New Jersey with almost 2,000 physicians and advance practice providers. Joined with Atlantic Accountable Care Organization and Optimus Healthcare Partners they form part of Atlantic Alliance, a Clinically Integrated Network of more than 4,000 health care providers throughout northern and central NJ. Atlantic Health provides care for the full continuum of health care needs through 26 urgent care centers, Atlantic Visiting Nurse and Atlantic Health Virtual Visits. Facilitating the connection between these services on both land and air is the transportation fleet of Atlantic Mobile Health. Founded by Atlantic Health, the Healthcare Transformation Consortium is a partnership of seven regional hospitals and health systems dedicated to improving access and affordability. Atlantic Health has a medical school affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University, is home to the regional campus of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Centers and is the official health care partner of the New York Jets. About the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. Great Place To Work selected the 100 Best list by gathering and analyzing more than 1.3 million confidential survey responses in 2025, representing the experiences of more than 7.3 million U.S. employees. Of those, nearly 640,000 responses were received from employees at eligible companies, and this list is based on that feedback. Organizations are assessed on their efforts to create generous, supportive, high-performance work experiences for every employee in the organization. Companies must be Great Place To Work Certified(TM) with 1,000 or more employees in the U.S. and cannot be a government agency. Read the full methodology. 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Atlantic Health, a New Jersey-based healthcare system, has deployed Artera's AI Agents to improve colonoscopy screening rates and reduce appointment cancellations. The system uses automated calls to guide patients through the complex preparation process for colorectal cancer screening. Within the first 30 days, 43% of contacted patients confirmed their identities, 39% confirmed attendance at upcoming appointments, and 7% asked procedure-related questions. The AI Agent handles over 80 approved clinical and operational queries in multiple languages, reducing manual call time by 38%. Atlantic Health selected Artera's technology to standardise patient outreach across its organisation, addressing high cancellation rates caused by confusing multi-day preparation requirements. Colorectal cancer remains the leading cause of death for adults under 50 in the US, with nearly one-third of eligible adults remaining unscreened.
Atlantic Visiting Nurse ranked top home health agency in N.J. by U.S. News & World Report. MORRISTOWN, N.J. (Morris County) - Atlantic Visiting Nurse has been named the highest-rated home health agency in New Jersey on U.S. News & World Report's inaugural 2026 Best Home Health list. The rankings evaluated nearly 8,000 home health agencies nationwide based on quality of care and patient experience, according to U.S. News. Atlantic Visiting Nurse, part of Atlantic Health, received a "High Performing" rating - the highest possible designation - and was one of only eight agencies in New Jersey to achieve that level. "Every day, all across New Jersey, the outstanding Atlantic Visiting Nurse team improves access to the highest quality care offered by our system," said Saad Ehtisham, DHA, FACHE, President and CEO, Atlantic Health. "Their ability to extend care beyond the walls of our facilities, into the convenient comfort of patients' homes, helps ensure safety and wellbeing for our community. I congratulate Atlantic Visiting Nurse on this honor and am grateful for all that they do." The agency scored above both state and national averages across all evaluated quality-of-care measures, including mobility improvement, bathing and breathing support, timely start of care, proper medication use and reduced hospitalizations. In patient experience, Atlantic Visiting Nurse received a five-star rating and exceeded state and national benchmarks in categories such as professionalism, communication, medication discussions and overall patient recommendations. Officials said the agency provides in-home care for patients recovering from illness or surgery, as well as those managing chronic conditions, helping them remain independent while avoiding unnecessary hospital visits.
Atlantic Health introduces new technology to detect overlooked heart vessel disease. 52 2 minutes read NEW JERSEY - Atlantic Health has introduced new technology designed to better detect cardiovascular disease in small blood vessels of the heart, helping physicians diagnose and treat patients who experience chest pain but show no clear signs of disease on traditional tests. The CoroFlow Cardiovascular System with PressureWire(TM) X Guidewire is now available at Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center and is expected to be introduced soon at Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, according to the health system. The technology, developed by Abbott, allows physicians to conduct a comprehensive assessment of coronary physiology, including both the major coronary arteries and the smaller microvascular vessels that are often difficult to evaluate with traditional imaging. Doctors say the system may help diagnose Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction (CMD), a condition affecting the heart's smallest blood vessels that often cannot be detected with standard angiograms. Interventional cardiologist Dr. Lindsay Elbaum, who recently joined the cardiology team at Overlook Medical Center, said the technology can help identify causes of chest pain that might otherwise go undiagnosed. "More than half of patients who are referred for angiograms for the evaluation of chest pain do not have significant coronary artery disease. Many may have coronary microvascular dysfunction or coronary vasospasm," Dr. Elbaum said. "CoroFlow opens the door to answers that will provide patients with not only a diagnosis but also treatment options," Dr. Elbaum said. "Even in cases in which patients receive a negative result, the comprehensive nature of the system delivers peace of mind that their chest pain may not be from the heart." Traditional angina diagnosis has often focused on disease in the three major arteries on the surface of the heart. However, those arteries supply less than 10% of the blood flow to the heart muscle, with the majority coming from smaller microvascular vessels that are typically too small to be directly seen through standard imaging. The CoroFlow system analyzes pressure and temperature data collected by the guidewire to estimate blood flow in those smaller vessels, allowing physicians to better determine the cause of recurring chest pain. Health officials said a clearer diagnosis can help doctors tailor treatment strategies to improve patient outcomes and quality of life. Warning signs of coronary microvascular dysfunction can include patients who experience chronic angina, chest pain despite negative stress tests, persistent symptoms after stent procedures, or ongoing chest discomfort initially thought to be indigestion. CMD occurs in both men and women but tends to affect women more frequently, according to Elbaum. "The Coroflow Cardiovascular System can definitely be an important new tool in improving heart health among women," she added.