Director, Software Engineering

Availity is a leading healthcare technology company focused on transforming the future of healthcare. The Director of Software Engineering will lead a team of software and quality engineers, overseeing the software engineering function to develop, release, and maintain software applications that enhance patient care and streamline healthcare processes.

Responsibilities:

• Leading, managing, and growing multiple teams of product focused, full-stack software engineers
• Mentoring and guiding the professional and technical development of engineers on your team
• Working with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios - continuously improving software engineering practices
• Working within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies
• Leading the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
• Bringing a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, and mentoring other members of the engineering community
• Encouraging innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization
• Working across to improve the velocity of your and other teams
• Leading efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
• Working closely with product manager and related teams to define product scope and deadlines using an agile, continuous planning process, as well as a quarterly synchronization process
• Managing project deadlines, assign responsibilities, and allocate resources
• Creating and managing team KPI’s, dashboards, and metrics for success
• Cultivating a productive, strong, and happy culture within the department
• Providing updates, recommendations, and advocacy to leadership on behalf of the department
• Identifying opportunities for new projects and processes, then plan, collaborate, and successfully implement
• Acting as the backstop on technical direction as needed
• Taking responsibility for hiring new engineers as needed
• Collaborating with Product, Design, Data, Operations, and Customer-facing teams to optimize technology and efficiency in product development, operations, and infrastructure
• Developing new initiatives and continuously streamline the engineering and software development processes

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences or a related field of study
• 8-10+ years of delivering software products, preferably for the healthcare industry
• 5-8+ years of experience in managing teams and building relationships with people at a variety of organizational levels
• Experience leading teams of 20+ members
• 5+ years of delivering enterprise product software hosted in a public cloud, preferably AWS
• Ability to launch and deliver multiple projects on time
• Experience designing complex software systems
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external clients/vendors
• Experience driving and managing change
• Understanding of Java, .NET, HTML, XML, and databases
• Experience working cross-functionally and globally
• Extensive knowledge of the health care/payer/insurance industry specifically claims processing systems, provider office operations, and customer service processes in a health care company
• Prior experience delivering software products hosted in AWS
• Healthcare Technology experience
• Proven track record in creative solutioning in a fast paced, ever changing environment