Director, Software Engineering

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Software Engineering based in the United States.

This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity focused on building and guiding the teams responsible for critical internal platforms and shared services. You’ll own the people strategy, engineering standards, technical direction, and delivery quality for a domain supporting core commercial and financial workflows. The role combines deep technical credibility with organizational leadership, operating through engineering managers and technical leads rather than as an individual contributor. You’ll help shape architecture, development practices, quality standards, technology choices, and the evolution of shared platform capabilities. Working within a matrixed, pod-based environment, you’ll partner with product, architecture, security, compliance, and cross-functional engineering teams. Your leadership will help create a stable, scalable technology foundation while enabling teams to move quickly and deliver reliable solutions. This is an opportunity to influence technology strategy at scale while contributing to transformative innovation in healthcare technology.

Accountabilities: Build, lead, and develop a high-performing organization of software engineers, engineering managers, and technical leads, owning hiring, professional growth, performance management, and engineering standards.

Establish the technology direction and engineering standards for the domain, including development practices, architecture, technology selection, testing, quality, repository management, and technical debt strategy.

Own shared platform services used by multiple engineering teams, treating these capabilities as products with internal engineering organizations as key customers.

Ensure solutions are fit for purpose, reliable in production, aligned with business needs, and designed to minimize future rework and technical risk.

Partner with product, architecture, security, compliance, and other stakeholders to deliver outcomes through cross-functional pods.

Support value streams including order-to-cash and lead-to-contract, ensuring engineering capabilities contribute effectively to business-critical workflows.

Serve as a senior technical advisor and sounding board, engaging with teams on architecture, system design, technical trade-offs, and engineering decisions.

Champion software solutions, processes, and standards that continuously improve engineering quality, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

Provide clear direction and accountability while operating effectively within a matrixed organizational model.

Communicate technical strategy, priorities, project status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership and other stakeholders.

Requirements

12+ years of software engineering experience, including several years in engineering leadership and preferably experience leading through engineering managers or other leaders.

Proven experience building and managing custom applications and/or SaaS platforms in complex enterprise environments.

Strong software engineering foundation with experience writing production software and the ability to understand and evaluate code, architecture, and system design. This is a leadership role rather than a hands-on coding position.

Demonstrated experience defining and executing systems-level architectural and technology strategy for an engineering team, product area, or broader technical domain.

Working knowledge of order management, billing, revenue, financial systems, or closely related commercial technology domains.

Experience owning internally facing platforms and/or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams.

Ability to lead effectively within matrixed, pod-based, or other cross-functional delivery models while maintaining ownership of people, standards, and technical direction.

Experience working in healthcare, financial services, or another highly regulated industry is strongly preferred.

Strong judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to make difficult technical or organizational decisions and clearly communicate associated trade-offs.

Excellent organizational, planning, and communication skills, including the ability to provide clarity around complex initiatives and communicate effectively with executives.

Strong leadership presence, technical credibility, accountability, and ability to build trust with engineers, technical leaders, product partners, and business stakeholders.

Experience with revenue-enabling or lead-to-cash systems, authentication, identity, or other shared platform capabilities is a plus.

Benefits

Estimated total cash compensation: $235,000–$275,000 USD.

Competitive total rewards package designed to recognize high performance and meaningful impact.

Remote work opportunity within the United States.

Opportunity to lead technology teams working on industry-defining healthcare data and technology solutions.

Significant influence over engineering strategy, architecture, standards, and organizational development.

Opportunities to work with highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams.

Environment focused on innovation, professional growth, and high-performance engineering.

Opportunity to contribute to technology that supports secure, accessible, and actionable healthcare data.

Equal opportunity workplace committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive team.

Reasonable accommodations available throughout the employment and application process.

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