Head of Data and AI Platforms

Northbrook, Illinois, USFull-time$203k2026-10-09 → 2026-11-10

Core

Leads the engineering organization building and operating the foundation for AI to transform healthcare, evolving the data platform into a unified Data + AI platform supporting ML, GenAI, and agentic patterns.

Role type

Senior IC engineering leader (Head of Data & AI Platforms)

Builds

Enterprise Data and AI platforms enabling ML, GenAI, and agentic workloads at scale

Domain

Healthcare + Cloud Data & AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Engineering leadership, distributed systems, cloud data platforms (Databricks, Microsoft Fabric), MLOps, production AI systems, platform-as-a-product mindset, operational excellence

Preferred skills

Leading large remote/offshore teams, building enterprise-wide Data + AI platforms from scratch, GenAI/LLM platforms, agentic architectures, Azure ecosystem (Data Factory, Synapse, Power BI)

Technologies

Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Power BI, MLOps tools

Responsibilities

Own platform roadmap and architecture, lead Data/ML/AI engineering teams, define engineering standards and production readiness, manage platform operations and incident response, drive developer experience and adoption

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

About Medline

Medline is America's largest privately held national manufacturer and distributor of health care supplies and services. Today, Medline manufactures and distributes more than 550,000 medical products, encompassing medical-surgical items and one of the largest textile lines in the industry. With 17 manufacturing facilities worldwide and over 25 joint venture manufacturing plants worldwide, along with 45 distribution centers in North America and 50 throughout the world, Medline posted $ 17 billion revenue last year. Medline is ranked #27 in Forbes 2019 list of America’s private companies.