Head of Engineering - Platform & Data

Nordhealth

11h•Remote

About The Position

Nordhealth is seeking a Head of Engineering to own everything related to Platform & Data, supporting the company's growth. This role involves coaching the team, executing quickly, establishing foundational elements, and connecting technology decisions to business outcomes. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader, not just a people manager, with experience in scalable or regulated environments. They should be adept at making architectural decisions, understanding business impact, and operating with autonomy. In a 125-person healthcare company pursuing MDR compliance and rapid product expansion, this role requires balancing speed with compliance. A background combining engineering depth, delivery ownership, and people leadership is essential.

Requirements

Grown from software engineer to platform leader, through tech lead and engineering management.
Experience from either a highly scalable environment or a regulated industry, ideally both.
Shipped platform work at pace.
Managed competing priorities without losing delivery discipline.
Made architectural decisions they are still proud of years later.
Hands-on enough to earn the respect of their team from day one.
Business-aware enough to translate infrastructure decisions into commercial impact.
Mature enough to operate without close supervision.
Understand what it means to move fast and stay compliant at the same time.
Background that spans engineering depth, delivery ownership, and people leadership.

Responsibilities

Own the technical foundations that block growth or accumulate risk, including security and compliance, quality management, billing, 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 360-degree spend visibility, and mobile readiness.
Plan for a modular platform architecture and a mature data platform.
Keep legacy modernization and scalability proactively on the radar.
Build systems designed from the start to handle the pace of product growth, making architectural decisions that buy headroom rather than accumulating technical debt.
Drive platform delivery with clear milestones, transparent prioritization against product needs, and accountability for outcomes.
Ensure platform work is sequenced in close alignment with product development.
Act as a multiplier, raising the performance of everyone around them.
Set a high performance bar, give direct and timely feedback, and build a team culture where engineers grow fast and stay.
Delegate meaningfully and create the conditions for their team to do their best work.
Attract top talent through their network and reputation.
Operate as a genuine peer to existing product and tech leaders, fostering natural cross-functional collaboration.