Platform Engineering Lead

Job Title: Platform Engineering Lead

Work Location: Boston, MA (Onsite)

Duration: 7 Months

Industry Experience: Health and PBM industry experience is required.

Must-Have Skills

• Engineering Delivery Leadership
• Complex Program Delivery
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Platform Engineering
• AWS
• Backend Systems
• Capacity Monitoring
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Platform Engineering
• AWS
• Backend Systems
• Capacity Monitoring
• Microservices Architecture
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Job Description

• This is a multi-year platform transformation initiative focused on building a new cloud-native Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) platform while re-implementing and migrating existing PBM capabilities and business operations in multiple waves.
• The program involves Program Management and Governance, Integrated Delivery Management, and Operating Model and Readiness through a centralized coordination structure. This structure coordinates two delivery areas: capability development and integration/re-implementation, across approximately 16 functional workstreams.
• The Platform Engineering Lead is responsible for leading the engineering of the platform, including core services, data, runtime, and shared components that product teams build upon.
• This role partners with the Platform Architect, who owns the target state and engineering standards, while the Platform Engineering Lead owns team execution and delivery timelines.
• The role is also responsible for demonstrating that the platform can support production-level volumes through load, soak, throughput, latency, and recovery testing. It serves as the single source of truth for performance standards across the delivery areas and manages capacity sizing and reservations for cross-platform testing to ensure consistent performance measurement.
• We are seeking a hands-on Platform Engineering Leader with strong cloud-native expertise and proven performance engineering experience at scale.