Director, Data Platform & Engineering

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Company Overview:<br><br></strong><a href="https://www.blinkhealth.com/">Blink Health </a>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. <br><br><a href="https://www.blinkhealth.com/blinkrx">BlinkRx </a>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. <br><br>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!</p></div><h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.<br><br>We are open to hiring this position in: <br>New York (Preferred)<br>Pittsburgh<br>San Francisco<br>Seattle</p> <h2><strong>What You Will Do</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Platform & Technical Leadership</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own the operations and administration of our end-to-end data platform including ingestion, storage, and data/insight serving layers<br><br></li> <li>Own architecture and implementation of platform modernization including streaming systems, lakehouse design, and data-serving APIs, ensuring scalability, correctness, and operability<br><br></li> <li>Unify real-time and historical data with strong data quality and correctness guarantees<br><br></li> <li>Define and enforce standardized data contracts, event schemas to feed curated, trusted datasets for downstream applications, reporting and AI/ML, aligned with business needs. <br><br></li> <li>Set standards for performance, cost efficiency, reliability, and observability across Spark, SQL, and streaming workloads<br><br></li> </ul> <h3><strong>People & Organizational Leadership</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Lead, mentor, and grow teams of Data Engineers and Data Platform Engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development<br><br></li> <li>Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement<br><br></li> <li>Develop clear team charters, ownership boundaries, and operating models that scale with the business<br><br></li> <li>Act as a coach and technical sounding board for senior and staff-level data and platform engineers, enabling high-impact decision-making<br><br></li> <li>Partner with Data leadership to plan capacity, staffing, and roadmaps aligned to company priorities<br><br></li> </ul> <h3><strong>Cross-Functional Partnership</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Partner closely with leaders in Data, Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Network and Growth to align platform investments with business outcomes<br><br></li> <li>Translate business needs into platform capabilities and sequencing, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health<br><br></li> <li>Communicate platform strategy, tradeoffs, and progress clearly to executive and technical stakeholders<br><br></li> <li>Serve as an escalation point for complex platform issues, driving resolution and long-term fixes<br><br></li> </ul> <h2><strong>Technical Skills & Experience</strong></h2> <ul> <li>10+ years of experience building distributed data systems, with 3+ years of significant leadership experience owning scaled data platforms<br><br></li> <li>Experience defining and operationalizing data contracts, event schema standards, enterprise data…