Senior Director of Engineering, Technical Platform

The role

You will lead the global Developer Platform and AI infrastructure capabilities serving approximately 300 software and data engineers. You will manage platform strategy, high-availability infrastructure, and AI adoption across four engineering pillars.

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 resilient infrastructure
• Deliver service and operational excellence to internal stakeholders
• Evaluate and execute central platform investments for AI maturity
• Partner with engineering, security, and finance leaders to establish AI cost and security governance
• Collaborate with leaders to enable enterprise-wide AI adoption
• Develop and lead an engineering leadership tier across platform and IT 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 operationalising AI/ML developer workflows, LLM infrastructure, or agentic developer tools
• Ability to build trust across engineering pillars, product partners, security teams, and business functions
• Track record of driving cross-functional alignment on cost governance and risk guardrails
• Dedicated people manager

Nice to have

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

About the company

Flatiron Health is a healthtech company using data for good to power smarter care for every person with cancer. It is an independent affiliate of the Roche Group.