Ensemble Health - Director - Software Engineering

Key Skills: Api, AWS, Azure, Microservices, SDLC, Product Engineering, Delivery Management, Reliability, Stakeholder Management, Communications, DevOps, CICD Engineering Strategy & Platform Leadership: - Define and execute the software engineering roadmap aligned with product and business priorities. - Own architectural direction and technical standards across services, platforms, and applications. - Drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and agent-based frameworks. - Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including cloud-native design, microservices, event-driven architectures, and API-first development. - Balance innovation with scalability, performance, security, and operational stability. Execution & Delivery Excellence: - Own end-to-end delivery for multiple software engineering teams and pods. - Establish predictable delivery models through strong planning, capacity management, and dependency tracking. - Design and scale agent-based development workflows (multi-agent orchestration for design, coding, testing, and PR preparation). - Ensure production readiness, SLAs, incident management, and continuous improvement practices. - Partner with Architecture and DevOps teams to improve CI/CD, observability, reliability, and deployment maturity. Quality, Security & Compliance: - Champion engineering quality, code standards, and design best practices across teams. - Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements relevant to healthcare technology. - Drive engineering accountability for performance, scalability, availability, and cost optimization. People Leadership & Talent Development: - Lead and scale a large, multi-team Software Engineering organization. - Manage and develop Senior Managers, Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and senior engineers. - Own hiring strategy, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, and leadership development. - Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous learning. Stakeholder Collaboration: - Partner closely with Product, Data, AI/ML, Platform, Security, and Business leaders to align priorities. - Communicate progress, risks, trade-offs, and roadmap decisions clearly to senior leadership. - Translate complex business needs into executable technical strategies. Skills Required: - 15+ years of experience in software engineering, product engineering, or platform engineering. - 6+ years leading large, multi-team engineering organizations (30+ engineers). - Proven experience managing managers and senior technical leaders. - Strong hands-on background in modern software engineering stacks (cloud platforms such as Azure/AWS, microservices, APIs, distributed systems). - Deep understanding of SDLC, DevOps, CI/CD, reliability engineering, and cloud operations. - Strong architectural mindset with the ability to influence cross-team technical decisions. - Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence without authority. Education: - Bachelor's Degree in Engineering