Head of Engineering

Passionate about improving health outcomes? Interested in a role in AI as it applies to healthcare? If so, join us and make your mark at Envision Pharma Group as we continue to grow the business!

OKRA, proudly part of Envision Pharma Group, is an artificial intelligence company for healthcare. We deliver predictions, suggestions, and explanations to empower life sciences executives and operational teams in complex decision-making to drive the right drug to the right patient with humanized and understandable AI outputs. We are fostering a new generation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions implemented at top Pharma companies.

Our mission is to get the right treatment to the right patient at the right time, by building the world's most trustworthy artificial intelligence engine. The OKRA platform is live and has already generated millions of actionable insights and predictions.

AI for us is not a data science project. We deploy, monitor, and manage the analytics and we ensure that we operationalize AI products to drive health and patient outcomes. We embrace agile, iteration, and co-creation.

Being part of a collaborative team means there's no limit to what you can achieve. With us, you can be a part of a growing company you want to work for.

The opportunity

In this exciting opportunity as the Head of Engineering at OKRA.ai, you will play a pivotal role in leading our team of talented engineers to develop groundbreaking solutions. With a modern outlook, having worked for new state-of-the-art agile companies, you will be responsible for driving the technical vision, strategy, and execution to ensure the successful delivery of AI projects that align with our company's objectives. Leading our two engineering teams working on our Data and SaaS platforms, this position requires a strong combination of technical expertise, leadership skills, and a passion for innovation.

In a hybrid working setup, the successful candidate will be required to work from our Leiden office in the Netherlands, 3 days per week.

Role responsibilities

How will you make an impact at Envision Pharma Group?

As a key member of OKRA.ai's leadership team, you will be responsible for making strategic decisions on the development of our technology stack, as well as operations.

Collaborate with other Envision Pharma Group departments, such as Technology to develop shared data strategies and solutions.

Build and develop lasting and strong relationships with clients and service providers.

Provide guidance and direction to develop our operations teams.

Steer activities related to front-end, back-end, data processing, data lake and cloud infrastructure development.

Develop and drive adoption of policies and procedures and use technology to enhance products and service, both for customer satisfaction and compliance.

Implement best practices and guidelines to continually improve performance, scalability, and security, and to minimise current and future technical debt.

Do you have what we are looking for?

Skills & expertise

In-depth demonstrable experience in managing international and distributed engineering teams (as a Head of Engineering; or CTO in a technology company).

Ability to engage with leaders at the senior-most levels on strategic and operational matters.

Experience with the successful integration of a smaller team into a bigger organisation.

Successful experience with integrating disparate systems into one cohesive and scalable enterprise architecture.

Previous experience in building SaaS solutions for B2B.

Expertise in web-based solutions on one or more public cloud platforms.

Familiarity with the current big data technologies such as data warehouses, data lakes, and data processing pipelines.

Life Sciences industry experience or with a demonstrated understanding and passion for the life sciences.

Magic happens when people care deeply about what they do!

We're on a mission to use Artificial Intelligence to transform healthcare as we know it.

We're pioneers. Everyone here is passionate about their impact on our products and teams and ultimately, the world. This is how we became leaders in what we do.

If you're looking for fascinating and complex projects and can thrive on change, you've found the right place.

Join us in bringing AI to life. If you have the experience highlighted above, we would love to hear from you!

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