Senior Director of Engineering, Technical Platform

Role

Flatiron Health is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering, Technical Platform to help improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, this engineering leadership role will consolidate and lead global Developer Platform and AI infrastructure capabilities serving approximately 300 software and data engineers across four core engineering pillars.

Responsibilities

• Treat the platform as a product, leading teams that build opinionated paved paths and self-service capabilities to reduce cognitive load, remove friction, and improve developer velocity across business units.
• Partner with Product Management to define platform vision, roadmaps, and metrics, ensuring investments deliver business value and strong experiences for technical and non-technical employees.
• Guide resilient, high-availability infrastructure across enterprise data processing, storage, and mission-critical SaaS integrations with strict SLA/SLO requirements.
• Deliver operational excellence for internal stakeholders through developer tooling and reliable corporate IT infrastructure, support, and services.
• Evaluate locally incubated AI developer tools and execute central platform investments to advance agentic AI maturity.
• Partner with engineering, security, and finance leaders on cost controls, risk guardrails, and compliance governance for production AI workloads and developer tools.
• Enable safe enterprise-wide AI adoption through infrastructure, tooling, and user experiences for technical and non-technical teams.
• Develop engineering leaders across platform and IT teams, fostering ownership, technical leadership, organizational maturity, and talent development.

First-Year Success

• Consolidate global developer platform tooling into seamless paved paths.
• Establish transparent AI governance and cost controls.
• Demonstrate improved developer velocity and AI maturity across all four business pillars.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in engineering leadership, cloud infrastructure, and platform strategy.
• A kind, passionate, collaborative approach to problem-solving and a product-minded approach to platform leadership.
• Customer-centric platform thinking focused on adoption, developer satisfaction, and measurable impact.
• Proven experience leading platform engineering organizations supporting hundreds of software and data engineers across distributed teams.
• Strong technical depth in large-scale data processing pipelines, storage architectures, cloud platform services, and high-availability enterprise environments.
• Hands-on or strategic experience operationalizing AI/ML developer workflows, LLM infrastructure, or agentic developer tools.
• Empathetic communication and the ability to build trust across engineering, product, security, and business functions.
• A track record of cross-functional alignment on cost governance and risk guardrails without unnecessary bureaucracy.
• People management experience focused on building high-trust environments, unblocking teams, eliminating single points of failure, and growing engineering leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with healthcare data compliance, HIPAA or HITRUST security frameworks, or regulated technical environments.
• Experience leading organizational shifts toward platform-as-a-product or developer enablement models in multi-pillar engineering organizations.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid role based at the NY office, combining work from home with three office days set by you and your team.

Benefits

• Flexible work hours and flexible paid time off.
• Comprehensive compensation package and 401(k) contribution.
• Financial health resources, including individual financial advice.
• Mental well-being tools and services.
• Parental benefits, family-building care, and generous leave.
• Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
• Travel support for safe healthcare services.