Head of Engineering - Platform & Data

Nordhealth; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Learning & growth opportunities

Tools you need

Global team events

Meaningful industry impact

Job summary

Nordhealth is seeking a Head of Engineering to own Platform & Data, coaching the team while delivering fast results. The role requires balancing architectural decisions with business impact and remaining hands-on to earn the respect of the team.

Leadership will span engineering depth, delivery ownership, and people management, with a focus on security, compliance, and scalable cloud foundations to support growth.

Qualifications

• Experience growing from software engineer to platform leader through tech lead and engineering management.
• Experience shipping platform work rapidly while balancing priorities and architectural decisions.
• Hands-on leader who earns team respect and translates infrastructure decisions into business impact.
• Background spanning engineering depth, delivery ownership, and people leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical foundations that block growth: security, compliance, quality management, APIs and integrations, and monitoring.
• Consolidate fragmented infrastructure onto a unified cloud foundation and improve developer experience.
• Own the highest-risk areas: production data and migration tooling, cost engineering with full spend visibility, and mobile readiness.
• Plan for a modular platform architecture and a mature data platform, while modernising legacy systems.

Job description

About the role

We’re looking for a Head of Engineering to own everything related to Platform & Data, supporting the next level of our Growth! Reporting directly to the BU CEO, your main goal is to coach the team, execute fast, set up the foundations and connect technology decisions to business outcomes. We need a hands‑on leader and not a pure people’s manager.

The profile we need

• The ideal candidate has grown from software engineer to platform leader — through tech lead and engineering management — and brings experience from either a highly scalable environment or a regulated industry, ideally both.
• They have shipped platform work at pace, managed competing priorities without losing delivery discipline, and made architectural decisions they are still proud of years later.
• They are hands‑on enough to earn the respect of their team from day one, business‑aware enough to translate infrastructure decisions into commercial impact, and mature enough to operate without close supervision.
• They have a background that spans engineering depth, delivery ownership, and people leadership.

What This Person Owns

This role owns the technical foundations that block growth or accumulate risk — security and compliance, quality management, billing, APIs and integrations, and monitoring — while consolidating fragmented infrastructure onto a unified cloud foundation and improving developer experience. It also owns the highest‑risk areas: production data and migration tooling, cost engineering with 360‑degree spend visibility, and mobile readiness. Longer term, it plans for a modular platform architecture and a mature data platform, while keeping legacy modernization and scalability proactively on the radar.

Architectural Rigour & Delivery Discipline

First, building systems that are designed from the start to handle the pace of our product growth — making architectural decisions that buy us headroom rather than accumulating technical debt. Second, driving platform delivery with clear milestones, transparent prioritization against product needs, and accountability for outcomes. Platform work must be sequenced in close alignment with product development, not in isolation from it.

People Leadership

The right person is a multiplier — someone who raises the performance of everyone around them. They set a high performance bar, give direct and timely feedback, and build a team culture where engineers grow fast and stay. They make others shine: delegating meaningfully and creating the conditions for their team to do their best work.

Attracting top talent is part of the mandate. This person should be the kind of leader strong engineers want to work for — building the team over time through their network and reputation, not just through job postings. Internally, they operate as a genuine peer to existing product and tech leaders — no translation required. They bring the kind of presence and credibility that makes cross‑functional collaboration natural.

What’s in it for you?

We offer:

• The chance to work in a meaningful industry and in a fast‑growing, global company on a path to changing digital healthcare
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Learning and professional growth opportunities
• The tools you need, and enjoy using
• Frequent company events and talented colleagues from around the world

If you enjoy working in a fast‑growing and international environment with the possibility to make an impact, this might be the perfect job for you.