Senior Director of Engineering, Technical Platform
Flatiron Health · NY office
About this role
**Senior Director of Engineering, Technical Platform** Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a community that values integrity, inspires growth, and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem. We’re looking for a **Senior Director of Engineering, Technical Platform** to help improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. --- ## What You’ll Do This role is on our engineering leadership team, reporting directly to our **Chief Technology Officer**. You’ll consolidate and lead our global **Developer Platform** and **AI infrastructure** capabilities—serving ~**300** software and data engineers across **four core engineering pillars**. - **Treat the Platform as a Product:** Lead and evolve our developer platform with a product mindset; build opinionated “paved paths” and self-service capabilities that reduce cognitive load, remove engineering friction, and improve developer velocity. - **Co-Drive Platform Strategy:** Partner with Product Management to define platform vision, roadmaps, and metrics; ensure investments deliver high-signal business value and a delightful experience for technical and non-technical employees. - **Guide High-Availability Infrastructure:** Provide technical depth and strategic guidance for resilient infrastructure across enterprise data processing, storage, and mission-critical SaaS integrations with strict **SLA/SLO** requirements. - **Champion Internal Customers & IT Operations:** Deliver exceptional service to internal stakeholders; empower developers with seamless platform tooling and provide reliable corporate IT infrastructure, support, and services for non-technical employees. - **Integrate & Scale AI Capabilities:** Evaluate locally incubated AI developer tooling across business units and execute central platform investments to move the organization up the agentic AI maturity curve. - **Establish AI Cost & Security Governance:** Partner with engineering, security, and finance to define cost controls, risk guardrails, and compliance governance for production AI workloads and developer tools. - **Enable Enterprise-Wide AI Adoption:** Collaborate across technical and non-technical functions to establish infrastructure, tooling, and user experiences that enable safe, cross-functional AI use. - **Build & Manage High Performing Teams:** Develop and lead a robust engineering leadership tier across platform and IT teams—fostering ownership, technical excellence, organizational maturity, and talent strategies aligned to mission-critical outcomes. **Success in your first year** means consolidating global developer platform tooling into seamless paved paths, establishing transparent AI governance and cost controls, and delivering measurable improvements in developer velocity and AI maturity across all four pillars. --- ## Who You Are You’re a kind, passionate, collaborative problem-solver who values thinking beyond the status quo. You’re a product-minded platform leader with **10+ years** of engineering leadership, cloud infrastructure, and platform strategy experience. - Believe internal platforms should be treated with customer-centric rigor (adoption, developer satisfaction, measurable impact) - Have proven experience leading platform engineering organizations supporting hundreds of software/data engineers across distributed teams - Bring strong technical depth across large-scale data processing pipelines, storage architect
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