Associate Director, Platform Engineering - BioAgent

BeOne continues to grow at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals. When considering candidates, we look for scientific and business professionals who are highly motivated, collaborative, and most importantly, share our passionate interest in fighting cancer.

The Associate Director, Platform Engineering is responsible for building and operating an enterprise-grade platform that accelerates digital transformation across key business processes. This role owns the core engineering capabilities that enable scalable digital products, spanning workflow automation, analytics enablement, AI-driven capabilities, and foundational infrastructure services. The Associate Director will lead a high-performing platform engineering team, partner closely with product and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the platform is robust, secure, compliant, and widely adopted.

Major 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.

Qualification

• 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.

BeOne Global Competencies:

When we exhibit our values of Patients First, Collaborative Spirit, Bold Ingenuity and Driving Excellence, through our twelve global competencies below, we help get more affordable medicines to more patients around the world.

• Fosters Teamwork

• Provides and Solicits Honest and Actionable Feedback

• Self-Awareness

• Acts Inclusively

• Demonstrates Initiative

• Entrepreneurial Mindset

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