Associate Director, Platform Engineering - BioAgent

BeOne Medicines is a rapidly growing company focused on fighting cancer, seeking an Associate Director of Platform Engineering. This role is responsible for building and operating an enterprise-grade platform that enhances digital transformation across key business processes, leading a high-performing team to ensure robust and secure platform capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute a platform engineering strategy aligned with organizational objectives to improve delivery speed, operational efficiency, and reuse across digital products
• Translate product and business needs into a prioritized technical roadmap (platform capabilities, reliability investments, security/compliance enhancements) and deliver against it with clear milestones
• Establish platform standards, reference architectures, and best practices to enable consistent engineering outcomes across teams
• Oversee design, implementation, and lifecycle management of key platform services such as authentication and authorization, data caching, data bus/pub-sub, Logging, monitoring, and observability foundations etc
• Drive platform innovation that supports low-code business process digitalization, analytics enablement, and AI-assisted automation at scale
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of platform services, including capacity planning and operational excellence practices
• Ensure compliance with security, disaster recovery, data governance, and regulatory requirements applicable to enterprise digital solutions
• Establish service-level objectives (SLOs), operational metrics, incident management processes, and continuous improvement mechanisms for platform health
• Partner closely with product management, software engineering, data science, UX/UI, and business stakeholders to define requirements, validate platform usability, and drive adoption
• Collaborate with GTS to align platform initiatives with enterprise architecture, security standards, and broader infrastructure strategies
• Build, mentor, and retain a strong platform engineering team; foster a culture of excellence, ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning
• Support resource planning, budgeting, forecasting, and vendor/partner management to ensure efficient delivery and sustainable operations

Requirements:

• 8+ years of progressive experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise software engineering, with significant leadership experience overseeing complex initiatives
• Proven track record delivering scalable, reliable platforms that enable multiple products/teams, with strong stakeholder management across functions
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices and end-to-end product/platform lifecycle management
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience with hybrid cloud/on-prem environments
• Deep understanding of networking, security, and modern infrastructure practices (DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code)
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana/Splunk or equivalents)
• Ability to translate technical decisions into clear business value and communicate effectively with executive stakeholders
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence across engineering and business teams
• Strong problem-solving and strategic thinking; comfortable making decisions under ambiguity and operational pressure