Merative is a leader in clinical decision support solutions, and they are seeking a Development Director to influence engineering strategy and manage multiple engineering teams. The role involves overseeing the software development lifecycle, driving cross-functional initiatives, and ensuring the delivery of scalable capabilities across the MDX product portfolio.
Responsibilities:
- Manager of multiple engineering squads and initiatives, including 3rd party contractors, with a focus on engagement, technical solutions, planning and completing initiatives within a specified timeline
- Oversee the entire software engineering lifecycle and lead critical initiatives in partnership with Product aligning with roadmap priorities and identifying opportunities for innovation
- Lead integration of AI-powered automation into engineering workflows to improve delivery velocity, reduce manual overhead, and enhance overall product quality
- Responsible for engineering delivery, project planning, resource allocation, the creation of viable technical solutions and execution plans that align to business goals
- Partner with Product Leaders to translate roadmap objectives into executable engineering plans
- Provide expert problem-solving support on issues impacting clients, production, system reliability, performance, or platform integrity
- Solve problems, debug, troubleshoot, design and implement solutions to complex technical issues
- In partnership with leadership, transform organization and coach and develop people and teams. Provide feedback, encouragement, recognition, encouraging career growth, and offering opportunities
- Enable incremental delivery and bring value to market incrementally
- Shape long-term modernization strategy in partnership with Micromedex leaders
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies to enhance MDX reliability, performance, publishing workflows, and AI-powered capabilities
- Drive adoption of modern engineering standards including observability, reliability engineering, secure-by-design, performance tuning, and cloud-native practices
- Champion incremental delivery and continuous improvement across the engineering lifecycle
- Mentor senior engineers, technical leads, and architects to elevate engineering capability and architectural thinking
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or similar experience in the industry
- 8+ years of experience with broad impact across multiple engineering domains including healthcare
- Proven expertise designing and delivering mission-critical, cloud-native systems at scale
- Deep experience with UI technologies, CI/CD, Cloud infrastructure and Solutioning, Security and DevOps strategies
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams without formal authority
- Strong architectural understanding of cloud platforms (Azure preferred), microservices, distributed systems, and container orchestration
- Hands-on experience with performance engineering, automation, and security tooling (e.g., JMeter, SonarQube, Veracode, Xray, Qualys)
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts across technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong prioritization and problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to resolve complex cross-functional issues
- Proven transformational experience for engineering organizations