Database Engineering Manager

Posted:
1/6/2026, 4:03:07 AM

Location(s):
Tamil Nadu, India ⋅ Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Data & Analytics

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

athenahealth is a progressive & innovative U.S. health-tech leader, delivering cloud-based solutions that improve clinical and financial performance across the care continuum. Our modern, open ecosystem connects care teams and delivers actionable insights that drive better outcomes. Acquired by Bain Capital in a $17B deal, we’re growing fast and investing in bold, strategic product innovations. We foster a values-driven culture focused on flexibility, collaboration, and work-life balance.

Headquartered in Boston, we have offices in Atlanta, Austin, Belfast, Burlington, and in India: Chennai, Bangalore, and Pune.
 
Position Summary: athena’s Product Analytics team is seeking a “Database Engineering Manager” in Chennai to help design and maintain our Analytics Data Warehouse (ADW), a single source of truth for data driven decision making and client-facing analytics at Athena. As a data modeler, you’ll work at the intersection of engineering, analytics, and product, translating complex healthcare and financial workflows into clean, extensible star schemas that power platforms like Insights, DataView, and Query Builder. 

You’ll collaborate with analysts, product managers, data engineers, and other domain modelers to ensure that our models are trusted, performant, and reusable across teams. 
 

Required Qualifications 

  • 8+ years of experience in data modeling, analytics engineering, or business intelligence in the Healthcare domain 

  • Strong knowledge of dimensional modeling, especially star and snowflake schemas 

  • Familiarity with data warehouse design principles, including performance optimization, grain definition, and extensibility 

  • Proficiency in SQL (Snowflake experience preferred) 

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Design dimensional data models (primarily star schemas) in Snowflake to support financial, clinical, and operational analytics use cases 

  • Serve as a consultant and reviewer for projects that extend or introduce new facts and dimensions to the ADW

  • Ensure models align with ADW design standards for naming, grain, extensibility, and documentation

  • Partner with analytics and product teams to understand business requirements, define KPIs, and identify reusable data patterns 

  • Define model boundaries and shared components to avoid redundancy and uphold data consistency 

  • Help scale modeling operations by contributing to internal modeling guides, Confluence documentation, and tooling (e.g. semantic layers, metadata tracking) 
     

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Familiarity with semantic layers (e.g. snowflake or dbt Semantic Layer) 

  • Exposure to data governance tools, metadata catalogs, or modeling design documentation 

  • Comfortable navigating complex organizations and helping align disparate stakeholder needs into cohesive data designs 

About athenahealth

Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Our company culture: Our talented  employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.

Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.

What we can do for you:

Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative  workspaces  — some offices even welcome dogs.

We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment,full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealthenablesemployees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued. 

Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers  

https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity

Athena Health

Website: https://www.athenahealth.com/

Headquarter Location: Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

Employee Count: 5001-10000

Year Founded: 1997

IPO Status: Delisted

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Equity

Industries: Enterprise Software ⋅ Health Care ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ Medical