Director - Software Engineering

Key Skills: Api, AWS, Azure, Microservices, SDLC, Product Engineering, Delivery Management, Reliability, Stakeholder Management, Communications, DevOps, CICD

Roles and Responsibilities:

Engineering Strategy & Platform Leadership

• Define and execute the software engineering roadmap aligned with product and business priorities.
• Own architectural direction and technical standards across services, platforms, and applications.
• Drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and agent-based frameworks.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including cloud-native design, microservices, event-driven architectures, and API-first development.
• Balance innovation with scalability, performance, security, and operational stability.

Execution & Delivery Excellence

• Own end-to-end delivery for multiple software engineering teams and pods.
• Establish predictable delivery models through strong planning, capacity management, and dependency tracking.
• Design and scale agent-based development workflows (multi-agent orchestration for design, coding, testing, and PR preparation).
• Ensure production readiness, SLAs, incident management, and continuous improvement practices.
• Partner with Architecture and DevOps teams to improve CI/CD, observability, reliability, and deployment maturity.

Quality, Security & Compliance

• Champion engineering quality, code standards, and design best practices across teams.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements relevant to healthcare technology.
• Drive engineering accountability for performance, scalability, availability, and cost optimization.

People Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead and scale a large, multi-team Software Engineering organization.
• Manage and develop Senior Managers, Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and senior engineers.
• Own hiring strategy, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous learning.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner closely with Product, Data, AI/ML, Platform, Security, and Business leaders to align priorities.
• Communicate progress, risks, trade-offs, and roadmap decisions clearly to senior leadership.
• Translate complex business needs into executable technical strategies.

Skills Required:

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, product engineering, or platform engineering.
• 6+ years leading large, multi-team engineering organizations (30+ engineers).
• Proven experience managing managers and senior technical leaders.
• Strong hands-on background in modern software engineering stacks (cloud platforms such as Azure/AWS, microservices, APIs, distributed systems).
• Deep understanding of SDLC, DevOps, CI/CD, reliability engineering, and cloud operations.
• Strong architectural mindset with the ability to influence cross-team technical decisions.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence without authority.

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering