Remote VP, Platform Engineering & AI Governance

Velsera; United States; Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Velsera is seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead the Seven Bridges Platform. You will steer architecture, delivery, and production operations across India, Serbia, and other regions, balancing hands-on technical work with people leadership in a fast-growing setting.

You will establish a three-year technical vision, drive governance, and partner with security and compliance to ensure auditable, scalable software across multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering, with leadership of multi-team organizations.
• Platform architecture ownership at scale with multi-tenant isolation and service decomposition.
• Domain depth in scientific or biomedical data platforms.
• Delivery inside regulatory boundaries (FedRAMP, HIPAA, ISO 13485, or GxP).
• Reliability-focused delivery engineering: SLOs, error budgets, CI/CD with policy-as-code.
• Production AI/LLM capability in a governed, auditable regime.
• Track record of setting technical vision for a platform and delivering it.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision for the Seven Bridges Platform over the next three years and translate it into architecture and roadmap.
• Own architecture decisions, design reviews, multi-tenant isolation, and complexity reduction across the service estate.
• Maintain delivery governance with infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, and auditable rollout in a regulated environment.
• Own reliability with SLOs and error budgets, cross-site on-call design, and architectural improvements from incidents.
• Ship governed AI within product scope, ensuring governance and measurement alongside Risk & Compliance.
• Build and sustain a high-performing team with the right specialist skills to realize the roadmap.

Skills

Distributed systems leadership

Platform architecture ownership

Regulatory compliance awareness

Reliability engineering

AI/ML governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

CWL/WDL/Nextflow

GA4GH standards

Job description

Vice President, Software Engineering — Seven Bridges

Location:Remote.USpreferred. India orEMEA candidates considered.

Reports to:Chief Technology Officer

Who are we?

Velsera istheprecision engine company. We build the software researchers, scientists,and clinicians use to drive precision R&D and bring analytics closer to the point of care. Seven Bridges,Pierian,andUgenTeccame together to form Velsera; weare headquartered in Boston, MA, with [current headcount] colleagues across [current country count] countries.

The Seven Bridges Platform is our research genomics platform —roughly 130containerized services, multi-cloud, running in commercial and FedRAMP Moderate environments, where scientists run CWL, WDL,andNextflowworkflows over petabyte-scale genomic data.Current priorities arefederated data management, compliance asa productcapability, andgovernedAI.

Reporting line and scope

You report to the CTO and own engineering for the Seven Bridges Platform: architecture, delivery, and production operations, includingreliability, cost, technical debt, and observability. The team is primarily in India, with a smaller group in Serbia; you lead across both sites and work daily with stakeholders in other time zones. You hold architecture authority for the platform, co-own boundary decisions with security, federal compliance,and quality leadership, and partner with a cross-businessAI Engineering team.

The role isroughly 40%hands-on technical work and 60%peopleleadership and organizational delivery. Hands-on means owning architecture decisions of record, leading design reviews, reviewingcodeand infrastructure changes, and prototyping where needed. You should be credible to your most senior engineers, with a clear view of what thisclass of platformshould become and the ability to take a team and a business there.

What will you do?

• Own the technical vision for theplatformover the next three years,and turnitinto an architecture and roadmap the team and the business believe in.

• Own architecture decisions of record, design reviews, multi-tenant isolation, and complexity reduction across the service estate.

• Keepdeliverygoverned and modern: infrastructure-as-code under CI with policy-as-code, short-lived credentials, progressive rollout, and change evidence thatholds up to audit ina federally authorized environment.

• Own reliability: SLOs and error budgets on the paths customers depend on, on-call design that works across two sites, and turningrepeat incidents into architectural change.

• Ship governed AIin the product andapplyAI to how the team builds, both under a governance policy co-owned with Risk&Compliance, and bothmeasured.

• Buildthe team: management depth you can trust with delivery, the specialist skills the roadmap needs, andmaintaininga thriving teamthrough a periodofgrowth.

Whatdoyou bring to the table?

Must have

1. 12+ years in software engineering, including several years leading multi-team organizations through managers.

1. Distributed-systemsand platform architecture ownership at scale — multi-tenant isolation, service decomposition, and the judgment to reduce complexity.

1. Domain depth in scientific or biomedical data platforms — genomics, bioinformatics, life sciences, or comparable data-intensive, workflow-driven scientific computing.

1. Delivery inside aregulatory boundarysuch asFedRAMP, HIPAA, ISO 13485,orGxP.

1. Reliability and modern delivery engineering: SLOs, error budgets, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD with policy-as-code and progressive rollout.

1. Production AI/LLM capability shipped under a compliance regime, or AI-assisted engineering you landed,governedand measured — beyond pilots.

1. A track recordof setting technical vision for a platformandcarryingan organization there.

1. Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• CWL/WDL/Nextflow, GA4GH standards (DRS/WES), FHIR or OMOP.

• Federated or cross-institutional data access at scale — bringing analysis to data held by someone else.

• Federal program delivery and artifact literacy — authorization packages,significant-changerequests,andcorrective-actionplans.

• Architecture depth in inference topology: hosting trade-offs, retrieval that inherits per-tenant authorization,evaluationharnesses,andguardrails.

• Shipping reusable product capability out of grant- or program-funded work.

Competences

Vision

The ability to step back from the daily routine, explore ideas for the future, and see the platform in a broader context and in the longer term.

• articulates where the platform must be in three years, and why

• combines scientific, regulatory,and technology trends into one coherent direction

• spotsopportunities for the platformearlyand actson them

Technical Depth

Personal command of the technology the platform is built on,enoughto shape and challenge itsbiggestdecisions.

• reads code, designs,and test results first-hand rather than relying on summaries

• changes a team’s technical direction withevidencerather thanauthority

• is treated as a peer by senior engineers in design review

Managing

The ability to lead and develop others so they perform at their best — setting direction, providing the means, and holding the bar.

• builds a management layer capable of running delivery without them, then holds it accountable

• makes hiring and performance decisions promptly and explains them plainly

• builds confidence and momentumand creates a thriving team environment

Focus on Quality

Settinghigh standardsand treating quality, security,and compliance as design constraints rather than gates to be cleared.

• designs for auditability, traceability,and reproducibility from the outset

• converts recurring incidents into architectural and process change

• declines shortcuts that would trade a compliance position for a delivery date

Decision Quality Under Ambiguity

The ability to maketimely, defensible decisions on incomplete information, and to revisit themwhen the evidence changes.

• commits to a sequence when the data is partial, and states what would change their mind

• separates reversible from irreversible decisions and spends attention accordingly

• records the reasoningas well asthe outcome

Ourcorevalues

People first.We createcollaborativeandsupportiveenvironments byoperatingwithrespectandflexibilityto promotemental,emotionalandphysicalhealth.Wepracticeempathybytreatingothersthewaytheywantto be treated andassuming positive intent. Weare proud of our inclusivediverseteamandhumbleourselvesto learn about and build ourconnectionwith each other.

Patientfocused.Weactwithswiftdeterminationwithoutsacrificingourexpectationsofquality.Wearedrivenby providing exceptional solutions for ourcustomersto positivelyimpactpatient lives. Considering what is at stake, wechallengeourselves to develop the best solution, not just the easy one.

Integrity.We hold ourselvesaccountableand strive fortransparent communicationto buildtrustamongst ourselves andourcustomers.Wetakeownership ofourresultsas weknowwhatwedo matters and collectivelywewillchangethehealthcareindustry.Wearethoughtfulandintentionalwitheverycustomerinteractionunderstanding the overall impact on human health.

Curious.Weaskquestionsandactivelylisteninordertolearnandcontinuouslyimprove.Weembracechangeand the opportunities it presents to make each other better. We strive to be on thecutting edgeof science and technologyinnovationby encouragingcreativity.

Impactful.Wetakeoursocialresponsibilitywiththeseriousnessitdeservesandholdourselvesto ahighstandard. We improve oursustainabilityby encouraging discussion andtaking actionas it relates to our natural,socialand economic resource footprint. Weare devoted to ourhumanitarianmission and look for new ways to make the world a better place.

VelseraisanEqualOpportunityEmployer:

Velseraisproudtobeanequalopportunityemployercommittedtoprovidingemployment opportunityregardless ofsex, race, creed, color, gender, religion,maritalstatus, domestic partner status, age, nationaloriginor ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information