Summary:
The Manager, Software Development is responsible for the day-to-day management of a technical development team. Working closely with Product and other Development teams, this role executes the company’s technical, architectural, and commercial product initiatives. The role will be working with both technical details as well as people management including mentoring and career guidance.
A successful candidate for our Exchange team would embrace the challenge of balancing requirements coming from multiple business partners while meeting delivery targets. The Exchange team has many partners both internal and external, and it’s imperative to establish healthy working relationships and ensuring quality while meeting delivery targets.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Development, Product, and Architecture teams
- Plan and execute the timely release process for deliverables with all stakeholders including necessary communication
- Build and evolve technical Development team, ensuring capability to support roadmap requirements
- Establish roadmaps and resourcing needs across multiple teams
- Establish Development best practices and procedures; identify and resolve problem areas
- Socialize and educate the organization on new frameworks, processes, and solutions
- Oversee the development and implementation of innovative and creative solutions
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with domains’ internal and external user base
- Meet audit, compliance, and availability standards
- Specify and scope product features and define acceptance criteria
- Assess risks and dependencies and identify mitigation strategies
- Participate in department-wide special projects, including coordination activities to resolve broad issues or challenges
- Employ Agile development methodologies for software development activities
- Manage and coordinate technical dependencies with other teams
- Coordinate incident response for the team, including coverage and technical response to issue
- Hire, train, guide, and coach team members
- Other duties as assigned
Knowledge and Skills
- Engineering background, including ability to understand technical architecture and implementation at code level
- Thorough understanding of, and support for, Agile development methodologies
- Ability to handle multiple concurrent projects
- Ability to effectively communicate across organizational levels and with a variety of stakeholders, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to think strategically
- Ability to make difficult decisions and to drive decisions into actuality
- Ability to understand and effectively explain up and downstream product, team, and organizational impacts
- Ability to constructively challenge the status quo and to iterate and improve across multiple business domains
- Ability to adapt to changing conditions and lead others through change
- Leadership and mentoring skills including the ability to lead by example, promoting a common purpose and serving as a catalyst for success
- Demonstrate emotional maturity and a positive outlook.
- Demonstrated analytical, organizational, prioritization, and time management skills
Required Experience
- Computer Science or related degree, or a combination of education and related experience.
- 3+ years of prior software development management experience
- Experience leading teams who produce high quality deliverables
- Experience working with an international development team (e.g., internal remote offices or outsourcing partners)
- Experience with Agile development processes
- Experience and ability to lead and mentor a team of software engineers building applications using Python, Angular, Java in a big data and AWS environment.
Preferred Experience
- AWS or other cloud-based experience (Developer or Solutions Architect)
- Experience with Angular JS version 8+, Java
- Experience with MongoDB, MySQL, DynamoDB
- Experience building and maintaining production systems within the AWS ecosystem (or other cloud provider)
- Experience with data architecture, data quality and ELT/ETL pipelines
Key Differentiator
- Ability and willingness to travel to remote offices and partners, including international travel up to 4 weeks per year
GHX: It's the way you do business in healthcare
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.
GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe - who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.
It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Colorado, with additional offices in Europe.
Disclaimer
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC and its North American subsidiaries (collectively, “GHX”) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable law. This EEO policy applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including hiring, training and development, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, educational assistance, termination, layoffs, social and recreational programs, and retirement.
GHX believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each employee to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. GHX expects and requires the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere. Improper interference with the ability of GHX’s employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.