Team Lead — Federated Platform Development

(Barcelona based, 90-110k EUR base salary, performance incentive, stock option)

Role Summary

We are building a federated healthcare data platform enabling secure, privacy-preserving research across hospitals and medical devices in multiple regions.

We are seeking a Team Lead for Development who will own the technical delivery and execution of this platform — translating architectural direction into implemented systems and coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams.

This role sits between architecture design and operational deployment.

While a separate Architect defines reference architectures (IRIS-based and Open-Source stacks), the Team Lead ensures those designs are implemented, integrated, and delivered across real-world hospital environments.

You will work closely with:

• Architect
• Delivery Manager
• DevOps & Backend Engineers
• Data Engineers (OMOP / ETL)
• Visualization & Full-stack Developers
• Clinical & Research Teams

Mission of the Role

Your mission is to turn federated architecture into working production infrastructure.

This includes:

• Onboarding new hospitals into the federated network
• Delivering research workspaces and analytics pipelines
• Supporting platforms integrating medical device data
• Coordinating engineering execution across regions

You are responsible for how the platform gets built and shipped, not just how it is designed.

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Delivery Leadership

• Lead engineering execution of the federated healthcare platform
• Translate architecture decisions into concrete implementation plans
• Coordinate backend, DevOps, data, and frontend teams
• Ensure delivery timelines align with business and research goals

This is hands-on leadership, not pure management.

2. Federated Infrastructure Implementation

Work across both architecture scenarios:

Enterprise Stack

• IRIS for Health integration
• HL7/FHIR ingestion pipelines
• Secure anonymization workflows
• Federated research workspace deployment

Open Architecture Stack

• PostgreSQL-based analytical infrastructure
• Containerized ETL pipelines
• API-driven federated query orchestration
• Cloud-native deployments

You don’t need to invent the architecture — you must operationalize it.

3. Hospital & Device Platform Onboarding

• Coordinate technical onboarding of new healthcare partners
• Oversee deployment of secure data nodes
• Align implementation with regulatory constraints
• Support development of patient platforms receiving device data

This is critical for Traverse Health’s expansion (KSA, Mexico, Brazil, UAE).

4. Engineering Coordination & Execution

You will lead a distributed team including:

• DevOps engineers managing cloud/on-prem nodes
• Data engineers performing OMOP transformations
• Backend developers building APIs and orchestration services
• Visualization engineers building research dashboards

Your role is to:

• Define implementation milestones
• Remove technical blockers
• Maintain delivery velocity

5. Platform Governance & Technical Quality

• Ensure secure data boundaries and governance models are respected
• Maintain auditability and compliance awareness
• Drive infrastructure reproducibility and automation
• Align implementation with federated analytics principles

To avoid confusion:

❌ Not a pure architect

❌ Not a project manager

❌ Not a product owner

Required BackgroundStrong Fit Profiles

• Lead Backend Engineer transitioning into leadership
• Platform Engineering Lead
• Healthcare interoperability technical lead
• Data platform technical lead
• Distributed systems engineer with team leadership experience

Core Technical Experience

• Distributed systems or platform architecture delivery
• Cloud-native environments (GCP, Azure, Huawei or hybrid)
• Containerization & infrastructure automation
• Data pipelines and analytics platforms
• APIs and backend systems

Highly Valuable (but not mandatory)

• IRIS for Health or similar enterprise platforms
• Healthcare interoperability (FHIR / HL7)
• OMOP or clinical data models
• Federated analytics

Leadership Expectations

Given how Traverse operates globally, this person must be comfortable with:

• Remote-first teams across regions
• Rapid onboarding of new hospital nodes
• Working with evolving architecture decisions
• Balancing enterprise and open-source ecosystems

Success Criteria (First 6–12 Months)

• Deliver first production deployment aligned with architecture decision
• Standardize onboarding workflow for new hospitals
• Establish predictable engineering delivery cadence
• Reduce dependency on ad-hoc engineering coordination