Director, Data and Platform

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 and Platform based in United States. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for shaping data architecture, platform infrastructure, and DevOps for a high-leverage AI engineering team. You will own the full data lifecycle, from ingestion and transformation through extracts, reporting, and stakeholder-facing analytics. The role combines architecture, software development, infrastructure, and people leadership, with direct reports from the start. You will establish technical standards while personally building and shipping production-grade systems. Working closely with AI engineering, product, research, and business leaders, you will align technical investments with strategic priorities. The environment is small, fast-moving, and highly collaborative, offering substantial ownership and the opportunity to build systems and teams from the ground up. Your work will help create reliable, scalable data and AI infrastructure in a technology-driven healthcare environment. Accountabilities • Own the end-to-end data architecture, including data ingestion, ETL and transformation, extracts, reporting, and BI layers, ensuring data remains accurate, timely, reliable, and trusted. • Lead the architecture and operation of DevOps and infrastructure supporting AI engineering, covering systems from ingestion through serving. • Establish technical direction, architecture standards, and engineering practices across data infrastructure, pipelines, transformation logic, platform reliability, and observability. • Design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade systems, while continuing to write and ship code personally. • Develop infrastructure that is scalable, stable, observable, and maintainable without extensive manual intervention. • Build and lead the data and platform organization, including hiring, team development, day-to-day leadership, and technical mentorship. • Mentor engineers across architecture, data design, DevOps, and platform engineering practices. • Partner with AI engineering leadership to align platform investments with product and research priorities. • Translate business and executive priorities into practical data strategy and architecture decisions, clearly communicating technical trade-offs and their implications. • Collaborate across engineering, architecture, product, research, and business teams to ensure platform investments support organizational goals. Requirements • 8+ years of experience architecting and building production platforms; candidates with strong relevant experience but fewer years may also be considered. • Proven hands-on ownership of data architecture across ingestion, ETL, transformation, extracts, reporting, and BI. • Strong DevOps experience, including designing, deploying, operating, and scaling production systems and infrastructure. • Demonstrated ability to write and ship production code rather than focusing solely on architecture documentation or system design. • Hands-on experience with modern data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Postgres, and/or MySQL. • Experience handling and protecting sensitive PHI/PII data, including appropriate detection and data-management practices. • Practical experience with GitOps workflows, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS or equivalent platforms. • Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex architectural decisions into actionable information for engineers, architects, and non-technical leaders. • Experience mentoring engineers in architecture, data design, DevOps, and/or platform engineering. • Previous people-management experience or demonstrated readiness to lead direct reports. • Comfort working in a small, fast-paced environment where responsibilities span multiple technical areas. • Experience with AI/ML data platforms, vector databases such as Qdrant, Pinecone, or Weaviate, healthcare or other regulated data environments, or greenfield platform development is a plus. Benefits • Competitive compensation: Base salary range of $220,000–$260,000 USD . • Opportunity to take on a high-impact leadership role within a growing healthcare technology environment. • Hands-on ownership of data, platform, infrastructure, and AI engineering architecture. • Direct people leadership responsibilities from the start, with opportunities to build and grow the team. • Opportunity to work with modern data, cloud, DevOps, and AI/ML technologies. • Remote position for candidates based in the United States. • Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunity and a diverse workforce. • Opportunity to contribute to technology supporting more efficient pharmacy benefits and healthcare access. How Jobgether works: We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. 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