Director, Data Platform & Engineering

About this role

Company Overview:

Blink Health is the fastest growing healthcare technology company that builds products to make prescriptions accessible and affordable to everybody. Our two primary products – BlinkRx and Quick Save – remove traditional roadblocks within the current prescription supply chain, resulting in better access to critical medications and improved health outcomes for patients.

BlinkRx is the world’s first pharma-to-patient cloud that offers a digital concierge service for patients who are prescribed branded medications. Patients benefit from transparent low prices, free home delivery, and world-class support on this first-of-its-kind centralized platform. With BlinkRx, never again will a patient show up at the pharmacy only to discover that they can’t afford their medication, their doctor needs to fill out a form for them, or the pharmacy doesn’t have the medication in stock.

We are a highly collaborative team of builders and operators who invent new ways of working in an industry that historically has resisted innovation. Join us!

The Role

We are seeking a Director of Data Platform & Engineering to lead the evolution of Blink’s real-time and batch data platform, built on AWS and Databricks. This role owns the strategy, execution, and people leadership for the data platform and engineering team, managing a team of Data Engineers and Data Platform Engineers.

As a Director, you will set the long-term vision and day-to-day management of the data platform and how data is ingested, processed, stored, and modeled, aligned with business objectives. This is a high visibility role deriving trusted metrics, reports and analytics that power decisioning systems, operational workflows and data products for internal and external stakeholders. You will balance hands-on technical judgment with organizational leadership—building high-performing teams, scaling platform capabilities, and ensuring the platform remains reliable, cost-effective, and aligned with business priorities.

This is a highly cross-functional role, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure Data, and Leadership to simplify our data ecosystem, retire legacy patterns, and establish scalable, lakehouse-first foundations for real-time analytics and decisioning.

We are open to hiring this position in:
New York (Preferred)
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Seattle

What You Will Do

Platform & Technical Leadership

• Own the operations and administration of our end-to-end data platform including ingestion, storage, and data/insight serving layers

• Own architecture and implementation of platform modernization including streaming systems, lakehouse design, and data-serving APIs, ensuring scalability, correctness, and operability

• Unify real-time and historical data with strong data quality and correctness guarantees

• Define and enforce standardized data contracts, event schemas to feed curated, trusted datasets for downstream applications, reporting and AI/ML, aligned with business needs.

• Set standards for performance, cost efficiency, reliability, and observability across Spark, SQL, and streaming workloads

People & Organizational Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow teams of Data Engineers and Data Platform Engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development

• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement

• Develop clear team charters, ownership boundaries, and operating models that scale with the business

• Act as a coach and technical sounding board for senior and staff-level data and platform engineers, enabling high-impact decision-making

• Partner with Data leadership to plan capacity, staffing, and roadmaps aligned to company priorities

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner closely with leaders in Data, Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Network and Growth to align platform investments with business outcomes

• Translate business needs into platform capabilities and sequencing, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health

• Communicate platform strategy, tradeoffs, and progress clearly to executive and technical stakeholders

• Serve as an escalation point for complex platform issues, driving resolution and long-term fixes

Technical Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience building distributed data systems, with 3+ years of significant leadership experience owning scaled data platforms

• Experience defining and operationalizing data contracts, event schema standards, enterprise data…