About Employer Direct Healthcare
Employer Direct healthcare (EDH) is on a mission to transform access to excellent care for the moments that matter most. As the leading provider of surgical benefits for self-insured employers, we bring guided access to high-quality, affordable care for employers, their employees and the family members. We understand and have experienced the challenges of navigating specialized healthcare and we are dedicated to making a change.
EDH is the market leader for Independent Centers of Excellence (CoE). We have challenged the status quo in healthcare by bringing top quality surgeons within reach of all. Our surgeon-first model is the largest and most accessible network (3-4x larger than our peers), which has delivered an ROI 3x our peers. We serve hundreds of self-funded plan sponsors across 1000+ employers, representing over 4 million people across the U.S. We've saved our clients over $700 million since we were founded!
Ultimately, the US healthcare system at-large is flawed. Costs continue to rise while life expectancy stagnates. We are moving the needed on this problem by improving surgery outcomes - making people healthier - and lowering healthcare costs at the same time.
About You:
- You have a drive and AMBITION to tackle big problems. Big problems require big ideas and a team that supports new ideas.
- You CARE deeply for your customers. Your customers aren’t just the individuals using your product. They are the driving factor in your motivation to make a change.
- You thrive in a TEAM ENVIRONMENT. Collaboration is key in innovation and creating change.
- A DIVERSE environment is incredibly important to you. You understand and desire to be a part of a diverse team with different experiences and perspectives & you cherish the differences in each individual that you interact with.
- You are DETAIL ORIENTED, but more so, focus on the execution of your content while balancing a fast-paced environment.
- You understand that PROGRESS is critical to making change. You take the time to celebrate the small and big wins. Understanding that each improvement to a process helps move towards a greater change.
- INTEGRITY guides you in life. Focusing on the truth versus just giving people the answers they want to hear.
If this sounds like you, we would love to connect to speak further about career opportunities at Employer Direct Healthcare.
Please apply to our role & someone from our HR Team will reach out to help you navigate our interview process.
Director of Technology, System Architecture
As Director, Technology (System Architecture), you will play the vital role of embracing and leading innovation of technology ecosystem at Employer Direct Healthcare (EDH). The candidate will be an evangelical leader with developer mindset and proven expertise in scaling organizations to build the enterprise. You will also be accountable for the creation and delivery of the strategic and architectural vision and leadership in all aspects of the development of the software (Applications, Data and DevOps). You will be a SME at healthcare patient workflow, payer & provider organization workflows, and data exchanges. You are dissatisfied with status quo and think Healthcare delivery can be done better.
Location: Remote | USA | Travel Required
Responsibilities:
- Lead innovation to build high volume, scalable workflow applications and systems.
- Work with Technology leadership to build and maintain an innovation roadmap.
- Employ leading-edge technology and software development principles to construct code optimized for high volume traffic and industry-leading customer experiences.
- Define and Use core capabilities, frameworks, and technologies necessary for building and maintaining a robust enterprise architecture practice.
- Participate in review product requirements, solution design, architecture and code and provide feedback to the team.
- Lead & manage DevOps effort towards modernization of delivery pipeline.
- Monitor and communicate technology platform health metrics to executive management and participate in executive meetings.
- Coach and train technology team on new tech, best practices, and mentor and grow those around you.
- Work with other Technology departments to support various projects and initiatives.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills - able to effectively communicate complex concepts in simple ways.
- Self-directed, self-motivated, focused leader who with little direction can fill in the gaps as to what is needed, and drive expected results.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in information technology or engineering or computer science or information systems or technology management is preferred. Equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
- Extensive knowledge of building technology solutions for healthcare delivery and/or payer and/or point solutions is required.
- 5+ years of technology management experience with focus on bring latest innovations through digital platforms implementation, maintenance, development, and integrations.
- 5+ years of leading team of architects, software, data engineers, etc.
- 5+ experience in building enterprise scale application as an Individual contributor.
- 3+ experience in leading Devops teams / initiatives.
- Deep knowledge on best practices & pitfalls on building monoliths, micro-services and everything in between.
- Amazing communication and leadership skills and ability to adapt as required.
- Must have excellent verbal, written, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Short & Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- 401k with company match
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
Employer Direct Healthcare does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.