Manager of Engineering, Platform & Interoperability

Mission + People + Culture : With a corporate Mission to stop disease through technology, Cobalt Streamworks is the market leader in software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to public health agencies. Our People come from all backgrounds and walks of life ranging from world class experts in epidemiology, informatics, and disease surveillance to engineers and product teams building high performance, modern solutions. Mission + People are unified around a virtual first Culture centered around teamwork, relentless focus on client outcomes, and individual accountability. Why work at Cobalt Streamworks ? 1. Motivation : We value initiative-takers and self-starters who want to contribute to the success of our Team and client outcomes. 2. Curiosity : Seeking to understand and comprehend is critical - we expect and encourage questions to master job duties and grow professionally. 3. Organization : We are a Team. This means we hold each other accountable and have high expectations for performance and outcomes. 4. Feedback : "Open and honest" is part of our corporate values that builds a culture of professional growth to support client success. 5. Impact : Your individual contributions will stop the spread of disease and improve individual, community, and population health outcomes. Cobalt Streamworks Informatics is seeking a Manager of Platform & Interoperability Engineering to lead two critical areas of our engineering organization: core platform services and data integration systems. This role will be responsible for building and scaling the foundational capabilities that power our public health products—ranging from identity and API infrastructure to complex data pipelines and interoperability frameworks. You will oversee teams responsible for enabling secure access, consistent service architecture, and reliable data exchange across systems. This role requires a systems thinker who can balance platform standardization with flexible integration patterns, modernize legacy pipelines, and ensure our ecosystem is scalable, secure, and built for long-term evolution. What You’ll Be Doing Lead and support engineering teams across Platform Engineering and Interoperability, ensuring alignment on architecture, delivery, and engineering standards, supporting the organization’s growth and focus areas Drive the design and evolution of core platform services, including identity (SSO/MFA), API gateway, and shared service layers used across products Own and scale identity and access management solutions (e.g., Keycloak), including federation, configuration, and secure authentication workflows Define and enforce best practices for API design and gateway management & governance, including authentication, rate limiting, and observability, ensuring APIs are observable, well-documented and developer friendly. Lead the development and scaling of data integration architecture, including Apache NiFi and legacy HL7-based processing systems Drive migration of legacy data pipelines into modern frameworks while maintaining continuity and system reliability Design and optimize data flows across APIs (FHIR/REST), SFTP, and internal systems, supporting both batch and near real-time processing Establish integration patterns, standards, and reusable components that can be leveraged across teams Ensure strong data validation, transformation, and error-handling practices across all pipelines supporting easier troubleshooting Implement and evolve monitoring and observability practices (e.g., OpenSearch) to ensure system health and performance, with a focus on fast detection and recovery. Partner with Product, Security, and Compliance to align platform and interoperability capabilities with regulatory and business needs, enabling great client and developer experiences Guide architectural decisions across platform and integration layers, ensuring consistency, scalability, maintainability and documentation Mentor engineers and technical leads, reinforcing best practices across platform services and data systems and modeling a growth mindset, raising the bar for engineering excellence Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for complex system and integration issues, and drive long-term resolution strategies that prevent recurrence What We’re Looking For Experience leading engineering teams across platform services, infrastructure, or data integration domains Strong understanding of identity and access management concepts, including SSO, MFA, and federation Hands-on experience with identity providers such as Keycloak or similar technologies Experience designing and managing API gateways with a focus on security, performance, and observability Strong experience building and scaling data pipelines using Apache NiFi or similar integration frameworks Deep understanding of healthcare data standards such as HL7 and FHIR Experience integrating systems via APIs (REST/FHIR) and secure file transfer methods (SFTP) Proficiency in backend development (e.g., Java or .NET