Director, Software Development Engineering

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