Director, Software Engineering

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. As the Director of Engineering, you will lead a high-performing global team responsible for delivering scalable, high-quality solutions that enhance client and member experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Foster a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture that values diverse perspectives and continuous learning
• Provide coaching and mentorship to managers and senior engineers, strengthening leadership depth and team effectiveness
• Support organizational priorities through thoughtful talent planning, development, and retention strategies
• Partner with leadership to reinforce a culture of accountability, transparency, and engagement
• Translate enterprise and product strategy into clear engineering priorities, roadmaps, and deliverables
• Partner closely with Product and Architecture to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices and technologies to improve speed, quality, and reliability
• Ensure strong alignment across platform and service teams to deliver cohesive, integrated capabilities
• Establish and maintain engineering standards, processes, and metrics to drive consistent, high-quality delivery
• Optimize team performance through data-driven insights, continuous improvement, and effective resource allocation
• Promote cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless execution across Technology, Product, and business partners
• Support operational rigor across global teams, ensuring effective delivery across time zones

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with 5+ years leading teams
• Strong familiarity with technologies aligned to our stack (e.g., Ruby on Rails, C#, Angular, JavaScript, AWS, caching and persistence technologies)
• Proven experience leading distributed teams and delivering complex, scalable systems
• Demonstrated ability to drive execution of technical initiatives and support organizational change
• Demonstrated understanding of cloud utilization and total cost of tech ownership
• Proven track record with legacy app modernization and performance optimization
• Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred