Head of Technology, Digital Health Services

Position Overview

Bausch + Lomb (NYSE/TSX: BLCO) is a leading global eye health company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the gift of sight. The Head of Technology, Digital Health Services is a founding role, reporting to the President, Digital Health Services. This role is critical to setting the technical direction for a new business unit focused on improving patient navigation through their care journey.

What You Will Do

• Architecture and Technical Leadership

  • Own the end-to-end technical architecture, including cloud infrastructure, AI/ML systems, data platform, security, and scalability
  • Make decisions that balance speed to ship with long-term defensibility
  • Select and manage the initial development partner
  • Architect for EHR interoperability and HL7 FHIR compliance
  • Design the patient-facing architecture with scalability in mind

• Compliance and Regulatory Readiness

  • Own data governance and HIPAA compliance infrastructure
  • Build the compliance architecture with regulated software pathways in mind
  • Ensure the platform is instrumented to generate real-world evidence and performance data
  • Partner with B+L’s regulatory and legal resources to stay ahead of compliance requirements
  • Own the post-market surveillance architecture

• Product and Clinical

  • Partner with the Head of Product on roadmap prioritization
  • Ensure the product ships reliably and performs in real clinical environments
  • Instrument the platform with telemetry and data capture
  • Represent technical credibility externally

• AI and Data

  • Lead AI model selection, evaluation, fine-tuning, and deployment
  • Build AI governance infrastructure
  • Own the data platform strategy

• Team and Culture

  • Set the engineering culture
  • Build the engineering team

What We Are Looking For

• Required

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time in a senior technical leadership role
  • Proven track record of taking a product from early-stage architecture to live, scaling production
  • Genuine builder mentality
  • Deep experience with AI/ML systems in production
  • Strong command of modern cloud architecture
  • Experience building in regulated or compliance-adjacent environments
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and concentrated technical risk
  • Strong communicator and genuine thought partner

• Strongly Preferred

  • Background in healthcare technology
  • Familiarity with HIPAA compliance, BAA frameworks, and healthcare data governance
  • Hands-on experience with EHR interoperability and HL7 FHIR standards
  • Understanding of regulated software pathways
  • Experience with patient-facing digital health products
  • Experience selecting, structuring, and managing external development partners or engineering firms
  • Experience at a company in the digital health or eye care space
  • Prior experience working alongside a product-led founding team in a startup or independent operating unit within a larger company