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Director, Software Engineering- Workforce Health Solutions

Quest Diagnostics
Lenexa, USA
Full-time
Director · 10+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 4 days ago
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Basic Qualifications

  • Experience: 10-15+ years of software engineering and technical leadership experience.
  • Engineering Depth: Strong background in the Microsoft (.NET) development ecosystem, modern JavaScript frameworks (React preferred), and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred).
  • People Leadership: Proven success managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams, including experience managing other people leaders (Engineering Managers).
  • Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience delivering enterprise-grade, cloud-native applications (Azure preferred).
  • Agile Transformation: Deep expertise running agile teams, optimizing sprint cadences, and managing complex software product lifecycles.
  • Communication: Exceptional written and oral communication skills to bridge technical solutions to executive business strategies.
  • 10-15+ years of software engineering and technical leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Global Delivery: Experience managing a distributed team model, successfully aligning on-site US engineers with offshore development centers in India.
  • Legacy-to-Cloud Migration: A proven track record of taking complex legacy database platforms and porting them smoothly into cloud-native architectures.
  • Change Management: Experience leading teams through technical and cultural transformations, keeping developer engagement scores high during periods of transition.
  • Domain Context: While healthcare experience is highly valued, transformational leadership and strong engineering fundamentals is more important than industry tenure.
  • Engineering Depth: Strong background in the Microsoft (.NET) development ecosystem, modern JavaScript frameworks (React preferred), and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred).
  • Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience delivering enterprise-grade, cloud-native applications (Azure preferred).

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Execution & Modernization
  • Flagship Platform Delivery: Own the execution, deployment, and ongoing feature development of our highly anticipated, modern client-facing application suite.
  • System Modernization: Drive the legacy-to-cloud migration roadmap, ensuring the systematic decommissioning of aging systems while minimizing business disruption.
  • Strategic Influence: Collaborate with Product, Business, Architecture, and Enterprise Tech teams to shape product definitions, technical requirements, and long-term organizational strategy.
  • Budget & Asset Ownership: Manage the engineering division's budget, software asset lifecycles, operational risks, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) proactively.
  • Global Team Engineering & Delivery Excellence
  • Global Team Management: Lead, mentor, and realign 3–4 agile software delivery teams consisting of approximately 30 engineers (a strategic mix of FTEs, contractors, and offshore resources in India).
  • Manager & IC Development: Actively coach and mature a newly appointed Engineering Manager and a talented group of technical ICs, guiding them through modern development standards.
  • Process Standardization: Establish, refine, and track internal engineering processes (CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, automated testing) aligned with broader Quest Enterprise standards.
  • Dependency & Vendor Coordination: Coordinate complex delivery timelines and technical dependencies across internal teams and external software vendors.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration & Change Management
  • Technical Consensus: Partner with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Support organizations to resolve architectural hurdles and enforce engineering excellence.
  • High-Tenure Engagement: Lead the cultural evolution of a highly experienced, long-tenured team, leveraging strong change-management practices to foster innovation and modern agile mindsets.
  • Business Translation: Serve as the primary technical translator, communicating complex technology constraints and timelines clearly to diverse business partners and client success managers.

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