Head of Engineering - Healthcare & Life Sciences

Fractal Labs
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Healthcare (Clinical, Medical, Wellness)Skills: ["Leadership","Client-facing","Stakeholder management","Communication","Mentoring"]

Senior, client-facing engineering leader responsible for shaping and delivering large-scale Data & AI platforms for Healthcare and Life Sciences. Leads architecture, delivery, and executive engagement, building high-performing teams and ensuring security, governance, and production-grade reliability in regulated environments.

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Fractal Labs
Fractal Labs
6 months ago

Head of Engineering - Healthcare & Life Sciences

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Job Summary

Senior, client-facing engineering leader responsible for shaping and delivering large-scale Data & AI platforms for Healthcare and Life Sciences. Leads architecture, delivery, and executive engagement, building high-performing teams and ensuring security, governance, and production-grade reliability in regulated environments.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Healthcare (Clinical, Medical, Wellness)
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Shape and deliver enterprise Data & AI platforms in highly regulated environments (Healthcare and Life Sciences), spanning modern Lakehouse architectures, real-time and event-driven pipelines, and GenAI-enabled systems.
  • •Partner directly with client executives (CIO, CTO, CDO, Chief Digital/Data Officers) to define technical roadmaps, guide modernization strategy, and connect technology investments to clear business outcomes.
  • •Lead hands-on engineering execution: set standards, review and influence architecture, remove delivery bottlenecks, and raise the bar on quality, reliability, and velocity across multiple programs.
  • •Build, hire, and coach high-performing teams, creating strong engineering culture, discipline, and leadership depth across geographies.
  • •Own platform integrity in regulated environments, ensuring security, compliance, governance, and resilience are built in by design—not bolted on later.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife InsuranceDisability401kPar Parental

Key Requirements

  • •Consulting or client-services engineering leadership experience
  • •Proven experience building and scaling modern Data & AI platforms in Healthcare and Life Sciences
  • •Deep cloud-native architecture expertise across AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • •Executive-level client leadership with ability to partner with CIO/CTO/CDO stakeholders
  • •Strong engineering leadership with experience hiring, developing, and leading teams
Experience:HealthcareLife sciencesAI platforms
Skills:LeadershipClient-facingStakeholder managementCommunicationMentoring
Tech Stack:LakehouseReal-time data pipelinesGenAIMLOpsLLMOpsAWSAzureGCP

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Fractal Labs
Provides AI-driven analytics, decision intelligence, and engineering solutions to Fortune 500 companies, helping enterprises apply advanced analytics and machine learning for marketing, supply chain, finance, and customer experience transformation.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2000
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