Senior Platform Engineering Director — Cloud & Data Platform

Prolaio; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 215,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Excellent health coverage

401(k) plan

Paid time off & holidays

Parental leave

Life insurance

Telehealth

Job summary

Prolaio, a Chicago-based precision cardiology company, seeks a Sr. Director of Platform Engineering & Tooling to shape and scale its cloud-native data platform.

You will own core tooling, data access, and governance across clinical trials, QMS, and data science in a regulated healthcare environment. You will partner with Product, Quality, Clinical Operations and Analytics teams to embed security, privacy, and regulatory readiness into every layer of the platform while building AI-enabled

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Biomedical Informatics, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in healthcare, medtech, life sciences, digital health, or another patient-focused environment, with meaningful responsibility for data platforms, platform engineering, or cloud-native enterprise platforms.
• Minimum 7 years of experience as Sr. Director/VP Engineering or Platform Engineering.
• Strong experience with GCP and cloud-native platform engineering practices, including infrastructure automation, observability, access controls, API-first architectures, and scalable service design.
• Strong software engineering experience using Python and at least one of Java or .NET, with familiarity building internal platform features, services, or developer tooling; experience with SQL is required.
• Experience implementing data lifecycle management, governed data access, metadata or lineage-aware architectures, and platform controls that support traceability, reproducibility, auditability, and privacy requirements.
• Strong working knowledge of healthcare security, privacy, and compliance expectations, including HIPAA and regulated system practices such as 21 CFR Part 11 and GxP-aligned controls, as they apply to platform engineering and patient-data systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead Prolaio’s platform engineering strategy and roadmap to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable cloud and data platform capabilities aligned to business, clinical, and AI priorities.
• Build and evolve the core platform tooling for observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, reliability, and cloud operations across GCP environments.
• Own foundational platform capabilities for platform access, data access, identity-aware controls, service authorization, and secure environment provisioning.
• Drive platform services and automation for data lifecycle management, including ingestion, validation, publishing, retention, archival, lineage, traceability, and audit readiness.
• Partner with the Director of Data Engineering to strengthen data architecture, APIs, data pipelines, and warehouse capabilities as part of the broader enterprise data platform.
• Deliver reusable platform features and shared services that accelerate clinical research, analytics, data science, and data services teams.
• Ensure platform features are designed with security, privacy, compliance, and HIPAA-aligned controls built in from the start.
• Lead the development of AI-powered platform capabilities such as intelligent monitoring, workflow automation, metadata enrichment, and policy-aware access enablement.
• Partner across Security, Quality, Clinical Operations, Product, and Data teams to embed governance, operational controls, and regulatory readiness into the platform lifecycle.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing platform engineering team with clear ownership and execution discipline.

Skills

GCP

Cloud-native platform engineering

Python

Java or .NET

SQL

Angular or React

HIPAA compliance

Regulatory knowledge

Data platforms

Security and privacy

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Observability tooling

Cloud infrastructure tooling

Data access controls

Data lifecycle tooling

Job description

Prolaio, a Chicago-based precision cardiology company, seeks a Sr. Director of Platform Engineering & Tooling to shape and scale its cloud-native data platform.

You will own core tooling, data access, and governance across clinical trials, QMS, and data science in a regulated healthcare environment. You will partner with Product, Quality, Clinical Operations and Analytics teams to embed security, privacy, and regulatory readiness into every layer of the platform while building AI-enabled