Director - Software Engineering

Key Skills:

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

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