VP, Platform Engineering

VP Of Platform Engineering

The VP of Platform Engineering is responsible for leading the modernization of the Zelis Price platform over the next three years. The Price platform supports products that optimize healthcare pricing and payment accuracy to ensure fair and transparent transactions between payers and providers. This role focuses on building a modern, scalable architecture to support the growth of the Price business, enabling product innovation and operational efficiency. In the role, you will drive the transformation of the platform into a state-of-the-art solution that includes a robust API marketplace, a robust data layer, and a modern app framework to consolidate multiple portals. You will also integrate AI and data into the platform, ensuring the engineering team harnesses data-driven insights and builds AI-driven solutions that enhance the platform's capabilities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the end-to-end modernization of the Zelis Price platform, transforming it into a highly scalable, reliable, and secure solution that supports rapid growth and evolving customer needs.
• Architect and implement a modular, scalable architecture that can handle large transaction volumes, real-time processing, and high availability, ensuring 24/7/365 operational readiness.
• Develop a state-of-the-art API marketplace, enabling seamless integrations with third-party applications, partners, and customers.
• Build a modern app framework to consolidate multiple customer-facing portals, streamlining user experience and enabling faster delivery of new features and updates.
• Implement a data fabric to unify data across the organization, enabling real-time data processing, advanced analytics, and AI-driven insights.
• Design and implement an event-driven architecture to enhance the platform's responsiveness, enabling real-time event processing, automation, and notification systems.

Qualifications include:

• 15+ years of technology leadership experience, with a focus on platform modernization and engineering transformation in large-scale, mission-critical environments, preferably within the payments or financial services industry.
• Proven track record of leading complex modernization programs, including migrating legacy systems to modern architectures and cloud-based environments.
• Expertise in building scalable platforms, API marketplaces, data fabrics, and event-driven architectures, with a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and modern development practices.
• Experience incorporating AI, machine learning, and data strategies into technology platforms, with a focus on advanced analytics and automation.
• Strong background in API development, microservices architecture, and real-time transaction processing.
• Exceptional leadership skills, with a proven ability to build and scale engineering organizations to deliver large-scale technology transformations.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and risk management, particularly in payments or regulated industries.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence executive leadership and cross-functional teams.

Why this role matters:

The VP, Platform Engineering is central to leading the modernization of the Zelis Price platform, ensuring it becomes a scalable, reliable, and innovative solution capable of supporting the company's growth and evolving business needs. This role is critical in enabling product teams, supporting the business's long-term goals, and positioning the Price platform as a market leader in terms of technology, functionality, and customer experience.