Senior Director of Engineering, Technical Platform

The role

You will consolidate and lead global Developer Platform and AI infrastructure capabilities serving approximately 300 software and data engineers. You will lead teams that build developer platforms, drive platform strategy, and manage high-availability infrastructure.

What you will do

• Lead and evolve the core developer platform with a product mindset
• Partner with Product Management to define platform vision, roadmapping, and metrics
• Provide technical depth and strategic guidance for high-availability infrastructure
• Deliver service and operational excellence to internal stakeholders and IT operations
• Evaluate and execute central platform investments for AI capabilities
• Establish AI cost and security governance
• Collaborate with leaders to enable enterprise-wide AI adoption
• Build and manage high performing engineering leadership teams

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in engineering leadership, cloud infrastructure, and platform strategy
• Proven experience leading platform engineering organizations supporting hundreds of software and data engineers across distributed teams
• Strong technical depth across large-scale data processing pipelines, storage architectures, cloud platform services, and high-availability enterprise environments
• Hands-on or strategic experience operationalizing AI/ML developer workflows, LLM infrastructure, or agentic developer tools
• Ability to drive cross-functional alignment on cost governance and risk guardrails
• Experience as a people manager building high-trust environments

Nice to have

• Experience with healthcare data compliance, security frameworks (HIPAA, HITRUST), or working within regulated technical environments
• Successfully led organizational shifts toward platform-as-a-product or developer enablement models in multi-pillar engineering orgs

Benefits

• Flexible work hours
• Flexible paid time off
• Comprehensive compensation package
• 401(k) contribution
• Financial health resources including 1:1 financial advice
• Mental well-being tools and services
• Parental benefits and policies including family-building care and generous leave
• Path to parenthood programs supporting fertility, adoption and surrogacy
• Travel support for safe healthcare services

About the company

Flatiron Health aims to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. The company values integrity and is positioned to create a modern, connected oncology ecosystem.