Director Of Engineering - Platform Services

About Truveta   Truveta is the world’s first health provider-led data platform, with a vision of Saving Lives with Data. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert, and help families make the most informed decisions about their care.   Achieving this vision requires a talented and diverse team with expertise across healthcare, software engineering, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and artificial intelligence. We are looking for people who are motivated by purposeful work and committed to building technology that can improve healthcare outcomes.   This position is based in Hyderabad, India .   Who We Need   Truveta is expanding its engineering presence in India to solve complex healthcare and technology challenges at global scale. We are seeking a collaborative and experienced engineering leader who can operate effectively across ambiguity, scale, and evolving requirements. The ideal candidate combines strong software and infrastructure fundamentals with the ability to build high-performing teams, influence technical direction, and deliver reliable platforms. You should be comfortable balancing hands-on technical leadership with people management and working with distributed teams across India and the United States.   If you are motivated by purposeful work, enjoy building teams and platforms from the ground up, and want to shape how data, AI, and engineering systems are powered internally, Truveta may be the right fit for you.   This Opportunity   We are seeking a Director Of Engineering (POD Lead) to lead the Platform Services team in India.   The Platform Services team will build, manage, and operate the infrastructure that supports engineering teams across India and globally. The team will also own critical backend and platform services, including authentication, authorization, customer and consumer identity and access management, CI/CD, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, developer productivity tools, observability, and shared engineering services.   These services form the backbone of Truveta’s engineering platform and have dependencies across multiple Engineering, Data, Machine Learning, Product, and Security teams.   This is a hands-on technical leadership role with people-management responsibilities. You will be accountable for technical direction, delivery excellence, platform reliability, and team growth. You will work closely with Product, Technical Program Management, Data, Machine Learning, Security, and Engineering teams in India and the United States.   What You’ll Do   Technical and Platform Leadership   Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Platform Services and internal engineering platforms.   Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, highly available infrastructure and backend services.   Guide architecture decisions across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, identity, security, developer tooling, and shared services.   Build and operate platforms that support engineering, data, machine learning, annotation, and internal workflow requirements.   Lead the development and management of Kubernetes-based platforms and cloud-native services.   Build and improve authentication, authorization, identity management, and access control services.   Drive the development of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, and developer self-service capabilities.   Establish engineering standards for system design, API development, testing, code quality, observability, and operational readiness.   Improve platform availability, scalability, performance, security, disaster recovery, and operational efficiency.   Provide hands-on technical guidance through design reviews, architecture discussions, code reviews, production-readiness reviews, and incident responses.   Balance near-term delivery commitments with long-term platform scalability, maintainability, and technical health.   Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce operational overhead, and improve engineering productivity.   Product and Delivery Leadership   Partner with Product, Technical Program Management, Data, Machine Learning, Security, and Engineering teams to understand requirements and define priorities.   Translate business and engineering needs into clear technical strategies, milestones, and delivery plans.   Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery across multiple platform initiatives.   Manage cross-team dependencies and proactively address execution risks.   Define and track success metrics related to platform adoption, reliability, performance, security, and developer productivity.   Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and technical decisions to stakeholders and senior leadership.   POD and People Leadership   Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team i