Director, Data Engineering & Platform

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Data Engineering & Platform based in United States. The Director, Data Engineering & Platform will lead the execution of enterprise data engineering and platform strategy across a complex, highly regulated organization. This senior leadership role translates strategic direction into operating models, modernization roadmaps, engineering governance, and measurable business outcomes. You will oversee multiple engineering organizations spanning data engineering, platform engineering, data integration, and data operations. The role combines organizational leadership with technology execution, financial stewardship, vendor management, and enterprise partnership. You will drive secure, scalable, resilient, cost-effective data capabilities supporting AI enablement, interoperability, reporting, and data-driven decision-making. Working closely with technology, business, clinical, analytics, security, and governance leaders, you will shape long-term platform evolution and operational excellence. This is a full-time remote opportunity offering significant influence over enterprise technology transformation and engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise data engineering and platform strategy into an executable operating model, multi-year modernization roadmap, delivery priorities, governance standards, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead enterprise data engineering, platform engineering, data integration, and data operations, ensuring services are secure, scalable, resilient, observable, compliant, cost-effective, and operationally mature.
• Establish engineering standards, service-level objectives, recovery expectations, deployment practices, reliability standards, automation approaches, and continuous improvement processes.
• Direct multiple engineering managers and technical leaders while establishing organizational goals, performance expectations, accountability measures, workforce plans, succession strategies, and leadership development programs.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Data Governance, Analytics, Product, Finance, clinical, and business leaders to align technology execution with organizational priorities.
• Govern technology portfolios and investment priorities based on business value, operational risk, strategic alignment, cost, capacity, and expected outcomes.
• Develop business cases and execution plans for platform modernization, cloud transformation, automation, AI enablement, and emerging technology adoption.
• Own annual operating and capital budget planning for data engineering and platform services, including cloud spending, software licensing, procurement, vendor contracts, ROI analysis, and financial performance.
• Lead vendor strategy, negotiations, managed service relationships, licensing decisions, and vendor performance management.
• Monitor portfolio and organizational performance through executive dashboards, delivery health metrics, reliability indicators, cost trends, adoption measures, and business outcomes.
• Represent data engineering and platform capabilities in executive planning, governance, prioritization, and strategic investment discussions.
• Drive operational excellence through improved delivery predictability, production reliability, engineering quality, incident management, automation, release practices, and cross-functional alignment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a