Director, Software Engineering - Employer Population Health
Position Summary:
The Director provides leadership over an organization of technology professionals responsible for the delivery of technology solutions for the Employer Population Health organization within Quest Diagnostics. This leader will be a strategic partner for the EPH leadership team responsible for identifying technology solutions that will realize business objectives. Responsible for delivering iterative value within budgetary commitments through agile development methodologies. Create and reinforce a culture of innovation focused on using technologies in unique, forward-thinking ways to serve customers and deliver value. The team may support a mixed portfolio of vendor purchased, vendor-hosted, and custom-developed applications.
The successful candidate must be based in Lenexa, Kansas.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Strategically partner with business leaders to understand the business vision, mission, goals, and objectives. Support the creation of a technology strategy in support of the business's plans.
- Responsible for the planning, development, and evolution of applications required to deliver business value while addressing technical debt and staying current with emerging technology trends, specifically in the population health market.
- Coordinate team activities and schedules with other IT teams involved in the software development cycle including architecture, design, testing, support, and program/project management.
- Develop technology roadmaps in conjunction with business and technology leadership. Ensure technology roadmap initiatives are delivered on time, on budget, and meet quality expectations.
- Build and support a culture of innovation and quality. Ensure pragmatic and disciplined use of process with a focus on continuous improvement. Provide oversight and ensure accountability in the use of agile software development methodologies and design best practices, focusing on repeatability, usability, and testability.
- Adhere to enterprise standards and practices while managing application lifecycles and roadmap initiatives.
- Manage project-level development costs to budgets.
- Direct subordinates on administrative policies & procedures, technical problems, priorities, and methods.
- Define service levels for the team and successfully manage the team to meet or exceed those service levels.
- Ensures optimal staffing for group/team.
- Contribute to the continued improvement of the organization's development procedures by looking for opportunities for improvement and implementing solutions.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- 10-15+ Years of software development experience with a focus on customer-facing solutions.
- 5+ years of people management experience in software development including offshore resources.
- Requires advanced technical knowledge in software development, vendor management, project management, project management, and other related disciplines/processes.
- Experience with delivering technology solutions in the healthcare industry preferred.
- Experience creating full-stack web solutions with high security, reliability, and availability.
- Experience delivering cloud-native solutions.
- Demonstrates strong leadership and people development skills.
- Ability to drive change and innovation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate technical issues in a non-technical manner to a diverse audience.
All requirements are subject to possible modifications to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Quest Diagnostics is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Disabled / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity.
Quest Diagnostics is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.