Up to 125 new jobs are to be created in Galway following the announcement of an expansion into Ireland by Datavant, one of the world’s leading health data platform companies.

The posts will be filled by the end of 2027 as the company establishes its global R&D centre here. Recruitment is already underway with a range of diverse engineering roles now open.

Datavant Ireland will be working out of the PorterShed initially, with plans to open a city centre location before the end of the year. The project is supported by the Irish Government, through IDA Ireland.

Datavant CEO Kyle Armbrester made the announcement at an event in PorterShed on Monday, which was attended by Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Peter Burke, and IDA CEO Michael Lohan, along with members of Datavant’s Executive Leadership Team.

The company also announced the appointment of its new Vice President, Engineering and Galway Technical Lead, Ciaran O’Toole, who will be based out of the Galway office.

A native of Galway and graduate of the University of Galway, he worked as the VP of Software Engineering for Globalization Partners, a Boston-based global recruitment and talent company, where he led the build-out of the company’s Irish engineering team and launched its Galway site. He will lead the effort to build the Datavant engineering team in Ireland with a focus on building the company’s life sciences technology roadmap and integration with the enterprise technology organisation.

“We are excited that the software we will be building here in Galway will be solving real-world problems and directly impacting healthcare decision-making globally,” said Mr O’Toole.

Datavant is the world leader in secure, compliant healthcare data exchange and has more than 8,000 employees.

The decision to create a Global Development Centre outside of the US was influenced by a desire to tap into top tech talent and to follow around-the-clock productivity.

Two key reasons why Datavant chose Galway were the rich talent pool in Galway and Ireland – especially highly-experienced people in the area of health tech — and because of its proximity to Datavant customers in the EU.

Hiring has already begun for the new roles which will initially be in engineering. The company is also recruiting for technology roles to support security and corporate systems.

Minister Peter Burke said the opening of Datavant’s R&D Centre in Galway was another vote of confidence in the Government and IDA’s Regional Development focus.

“A highly-skilled workforce is one of the features that make Ireland an attractive location for Mobile FDI,” he added.

Pictured: Datavant’s  Vice President, Engineering and Galway Technical Lead, Ciaran O Toole.  Photo:Andrew Downes, xposure