Health Platform Lead
Overview
Dis-Chem Pharmacies has an opportunity available for a Health Platform Lead, reporting into the Retail Technologies Lead, owns the end-to-end health, delivery, and operational performance of Dis-Chem’s Health platform. The role leads a cross-functional squad responsible for configuring, integrating, and operating Health capabilities that support pharmacy, clinic, and primary healthcare operations, where platform stability is critical to patient care and regulatory outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Health Informatics, or a related field
- 7+ years’ experience in application or platform management
- Proven experience leading platform squads or cross-functional delivery teams
- Experience in healthcare, pharmacy, or regulated retail environments preferred
Responsibilities
- Own execution of the Health platform roadmap within the Retail Platforms Tribe
- Shape priorities and sequencing with the Tribe Lead and Product Owners
- Ensure regulatory and healthcare-specific requirements are embedded in platform changes
- Drive standardisation of Health functionality across stores and clinics
- Lead the Health platform squad delivering configuration, enhancements, and integrations
- Ensure stable day-to-day operation of Health, including pharmacy and clinic workflows
- Own release planning, testing, and production support
- Proactively manage incidents and prevent repeat failures
- Ensure Health changes comply with enterprise architecture, integration standards, information security, and healthcare regulations
- Coordinate closely with Integration, Retail, Finance, and Compliance teams
- Manage Health vendor delivery within tribe-level governance frameworks
- Escalate architectural, data, or regulatory trade-offs as required
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