Truveta: Director Of Engineering - Platform Services — Hyderabad, India

About Truveta

Truveta is a health-data and analytics company. It aggregates de-identified electronic health record data from a network of United States health systems into a research dataset for studying treatments, outcomes and patient care pathways, serving life-science and health researchers. The platform is owned and governed by the participating health systems, and its employer feed lists engineering, data and clinical roles supporting the work.

The position and its setting

Truveta lists Director Of Engineering - Platform Services in Hyderabad, India, under reference 6184481004. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Engineering
• Employer listing date: 7 September 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Technical and Platform Leadership
• Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Platform Services and internal engineering platforms
• Leadership: the design and implementation of scalable, secure, highly available infrastructure and backend services
• Technical guidance: architecture decisions across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, identity, security, developer tooling, and shared services
• Building: and operate platforms that support engineering, data, machine learning, annotation, and internal workflow requirements
• Leadership: the development and management of Kubernetes-based platforms and cloud-native services
• Building: and improve authentication, authorization, identity management, and access control services
• Drive the development of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, and developer self-service capabilities
• Establishment: engineering standards for system design, API development, testing, code quality, observability, and operational readiness
• Improvement: platform availability, scalability, performance, security, disaster recovery, and operational efficiency
• Delivery: hands-on technical guidance through design reviews, architecture discussions, code reviews, production-readiness reviews, and incident responses
• Balance near-term delivery commitments with long-term platform scalability, maintainability, and technical health
• Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce operational overhead, and improve engineering productivity
• Product and Delivery Leadership
• Partner with Product, Technical Program Management, Data, Machine Learning, Security, and Engineering teams to understand requirements and define priorities
• Translate business and engineering needs into clear technical strategies, milestones, and delivery plans

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience in technical leadership, engineering management, or people management
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for shared platforms, infrastructure, backend services, or developer tooling
• Experience designing and building distributed systems and production-grade backend services
• Experience: cloud infrastructure and cloud-native technologies
• Understanding: Kubernetes, container orchestration, networking, service discovery, and infrastructure operations
• Experience building engineering infrastructure, internal platforms, workflow-heavy systems, or developer productivity tools
• Experience: authentication, authorization, identity management, or security-focused backend services
• Proficiency: one or more programming: C#, Java, Go, Python, or similar
• Experience: modern API architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, and service integration patterns
• Experience: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, monitoring, logging, and operational excellence
• Familiarity: open-source technologies and the ability to evaluate and adopt open-source solutions
• Understanding: software development lifecycle practices and Agile delivery methods
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Collaborate effectively with distributed and cross-functional teams

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Experience working with healthcare, life sciences, clinical data, or other highly regulated domains
• Experience building platforms that support data engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or annotation workflows
• Experience: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or other major cloud platforms
• Experience: identity and access management technologies and protocols such as OAuth, OpenID Connect, and SAML
• Experience: service mesh, API gateways, secrets management, policy enforcement, and zero-trust security models
• Experience defining service-level objectives, reliability standards, and platform maturity models
• Experience leading teams through significant organizational or platform growth
• Experience working with globally distributed engineering organizations
• Understanding: cloud infrastructure, cost management, and optimization

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: Hyderabad, India

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Truveta

Applications follow the official employer page linked below.

Open the official Truveta posting below and match the title and reference 6184481004.

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Practical preparation: Python

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Relevant skills

• Python
• Java
• C#
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• APIs
• AI/ML
• Google Cloud
• machine learning