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Director of Engineering
Vizient, Inc. Lead multiple engineering teams through coaching, mentorship, performance management, and career development .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading engineering teams, defining technical roadmaps, and executing modernization initiatives aligned with business objectives. Proficient in establishing engineering standards and operational excellence practices to ensure scalable and reliable software solutions.
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Engineering LeadershipTechnical Roadmap ExecutionCloud-Native Application DevelopmentAgile DeliveryOperational Excellence
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringModern Software ArchitectureDistributed SystemsMicroservicesAPIsCloud MigrationTechnical Debt ReductionIncident ManagementReliability EngineeringEnterprise Integrations
Soft Skills
LeadershipCommunicationStakeholder ManagementCoachingOrganizational Development
Tools & Technologies
AWSAzureCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeDevSecOpsAutomated TestingObservability
Industry Keywords
SaaSHealthcareSupply ChainFinancial SystemsRegulated Industries
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsERPMicroservices
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead multiple engineering teams through coaching, mentorship, performance management, and career development
- Recruit, develop, and retain engineering talent while building succession plans and strengthening organizational capability
- Define and execute engineering strategy, technical roadmaps, and modernization initiatives aligned to product and business objectives
- Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Security, Operations, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable software solutions
- Establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, and governance processes supporting quality, maintainability, security, scalability, and operational excellence
- Provide executive oversight for partner-delivered and vendor-supported engineering initiatives
- Review and challenge technical designs, architecture decisions, estimates, implementation approaches, and delivery plans
- Lead platform modernization initiatives including cloud adoption, scalability improvements, technical debt reduction, systems integration, and architecture evolution
- Drive modern engineering practices including Agile delivery, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, observability, and reliability engineering
- Own engineering readiness for production support, incident management, disaster recovery, service reliability, and operational resilience
- Establish and monitor engineering KPIs related to delivery predictability, software quality, reliability, platform health, operational maturity, and team effectiveness
- Lead technical risk assessment, dependency management, capacity planning, and resolution of complex engineering challenges
- Build partnerships with product, operations, customer support, and business stakeholders
- Promote engineering excellence through continuous improvement, innovation, automation, and knowledge-sharing
- Communicate engineering strategy, delivery progress, organizational health, risks, and outcomes to executive leadership and key stakeholders
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement
Requirements
What you’ll need- Relevant bachelor's degree preferred; advanced degree preferred
- 7 or more years of software engineering experience required
- 5 or more years of engineering leadership experience managing teams, engineering managers, or technical leaders required
- Demonstrated success leading engineering organizations within a matrixed environment and aligning technical strategy with business objectives required
- Experience building, scaling, and leading software engineering organizations delivering enterprise SaaS and cloud-native applications required
- Experience defining and executing technical roadmaps, modernization strategies, and large-scale engineering initiatives required
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams, offshore delivery organizations, or strategic technology partners preferred
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven systems, microservices, cloud-native engineering, and platform engineering practices required
- Experience with enterprise integrations including APIs, messaging platforms, EDI, HL7, EMR/ERP integrations, and third-party technology ecosystems preferred
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions on AWS, Azure, or other public cloud platforms required
- Experience leading modernization initiatives involving cloud migration, platform transformation, legacy modernization, or technical debt reduction preferred
- Experience establishing operational excellence practices including monitoring, incident response, reliability engineering, disaster recovery, and production support required
- Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, coaching, organizational development, vendor management, and strategic planning skills required
- Demonstrated ability to influence across engineering, product, architecture, operations, and executive leadership teams required
- Experience implementing modern engineering practices including Agile, AI Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC), DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and automated testing preferred
- Experience implementing modern engineering practices including Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, automated testing, and security-by-design preferred
- Experience in healthcare, SaaS, supply chain, procurement, financial systems, or other regulated industries preferred
Benefits
Comp & perks- Comprehensive benefits plan
- Incentive eligibility
- Personal and professional development opportunities
- Inclusive work environment