Remote Senior Platform Engineering Director

Vituity; United States; Remote; USD 179,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Superior health plan options

Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA, Life and AD&D

Top Tier 401(k) with match

Generous PTO

Professional and Career Development

EAP and travel assistance

Wellness program

Job summary

Vituity seeks a Senior Director of Platform Engineering to lead a blended onshore/offshore engineering organization, setting technical direction for staff engineers and consolidating tools into a cohesive platform. You will architect shared capabilities, govern AI-powered systems, and ensure HIPAA-compliant delivery across a large healthcare technology footprint.

You will partner with clinical and executive leaders, manage vendor relationships, and drive platform investment while upholding a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline required.
• 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering leaders, with responsibility for organization level delivery and technical strategy required.
• Experience as a direct line manager of senior and staff level engineers required.
• Experience building a platform or internal developer capability and growing it on evidence rather than on demand required.
• Experience consolidating overlapping internal tools required.
• Direct experience applying AI agentic harnesses/frameworks within the software development process, with a defensible view on scaling that responsibly required.
• Current ongoing expertise in modern AI engineering, including large language models and agentic systems, retrieval, evaluation and observability, and the supporting data infrastructure required.
• Experience running a blended onshore and offshore organization, including a vendor relationship at scale required.

Responsibilities

• Manage staff engineers owning hiring, performance, growth, retention, leave cover, and the day to day technical direction of their work.
• Hold the technical bar across the applications the staff engineers support, and arbitrate architecture disagreements between senior technical staff.
• Manage the offshore relationship through the Offshore Engineering Manager, which covers the AVPL India delivery team, its vendor relationship, and vendor performance & quality.
• Lead a blended onshore and offshore organization as a single engineering capability.
• Design and develop the platform engineer team.
• Manage platform engineers owning hiring, performance, growth, retention, leave cover, and the day to day technical direction of their work.
• Determine which platforms survive and what is retired; consolidate overlapping internal tools to one or two platforms; absorb VIA work.
• Build and establish the shared tools, standards, controls, governance, shared capabilities, security model and observability that other teams build on without needing engineering’s direct involvement.
• Manage team ownership of production AI systems: oversee the team design and delivery of the retrieval pipelines, model orchestration, evaluation harnesses and data infrastructure that carry live patient, claims and operational data; enforce evaluation and monitoring as a required part of the definition of done, including accuracy, hallucination and safety testing, drift detection, human in the loop review, and clinically meaningful quality metrics.
• Oversee model sourcing: build verses buy across foundation models, hosted interfaces, open weight models anything trained in house, with a clear eye view of cost, latency, privacy and vendor risk.
• Judge against throughput and quality change from agentic workflows, and support team development of the platform underneath them: orchestration, context management, permissions, observability.
• Manage team development in and of agent-augmented development lifecycle as a platform capability: agentic coding, automated test generation, code review, migration, refactoring, documentation and incident triage, with the provenance, review gates, security scanning and the intellectual property and compliance controls a healthcare environment requires.
• Instill team accountability for correctness, safety and security within the engineering organization; it is never delegated to AI/Models.
• Ensure products are developed correctly in a regulated environment, including HIPAA, protected health information handling, auditability, access controls and applicable clinical and payer requirements.
• Implement governance as guardrails within the system, with policy as code, permissions and audit built into the platform and observability enabled by default.
• Partner with Revenue Cycle, Information Security, IT Architecture and Application Operations.
• Represent Engineering to Clinical and Executive Leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural judgement

AI/agentic frameworks

Vendor management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Vituity seeks a Senior Director of Platform Engineering to lead a blended onshore/offshore engineering organization, setting technical direction for staff engineers and consolidating tools into a cohesive platform. You will architect shared capabilities, govern AI-powered systems, and ensure HIPAA-compliant delivery across a large healthcare technology footprint.

You will partner with clinical and executive leaders, manage vendor relationships, and drive platform investment while upholding a