Director Software Engineering DIG

at  Providence

DESCRIPTION

Providence is one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the United States.
At Providence, we use our voice to advocate for vulnerable populations and health care reforms. We pursue innovative ways to transform health care by keeping people healthy, and making our services more convenient, accessible and affordable for all. In an increasingly uncertain world, we are committed to high-quality, compassionate health care for everyone—regardless of coverage or ability to pay. We help people and communities benefit from the best health care model for the future, today.
The Digital Innovation Group (DIG) at Providence is a small but mighty product development and incubation team. We build next-gen tools that give patients convenient and easy access to health care anywhere, anytime.
DIG is both a healthcare startup and a technology/product incubator. Our team gathers market data on effective solutions in the health care space and then builds out a product line with the latest and greatest technology. When market maturity hits, DIG enables the product to spin out as its own company. It is a unique mix of venture capitalists, digital strategists, marketing acumen, product development and engineering all in one group nestled inside one of the largest health systems. We set the pace for other health care organizations around the country on how to conceive, engineer and launch effective health care solutions.
Recently funded DIG startups include DexCare andPraia Health.
Success in this role means you will have the opportunity to join future funded startups on the ground floor.
As Director, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform you are responsible for a software development team building next-gen infrastructure tools for our healthcare incubation platform. You bring extensive experience operating cloud products at scale and understand how to operate effective security and compliance practices with automation as a key focus.

This is a vital management role for the Digital Innovation Group at Providence. Key goals are:

• Lead SRE and operations teams to deliver secure, repeatable, reliable, and privacy-first cloud infrastructure and tools. You are a hands-on leader who defines product architecture and what success looks like from both a business and technology perspective.
• Develop effective relationships with your peers, internalize feedback, and get buy-in for the needs of the engineering team.
• Develop infrastructure roadmaps and work with engineering teams to plan, estimate, and deliver supporting infrastructure for their projects and product verticals.
• Own reporting tools to communicate to engineers and leadership the security posture of our cloud infrastructure, and operational health.
• Ride the crest of the tech wavefront with a voracious appetite for current technology trends.
• Manage, hire and develop a world-class engineering and operations team.
• Promote a culture of diversity and equity through hiring and developing talent and delivering the right products that support these values.

EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or other related scientific or engineering fields. A master’s degree (or PhD) is preferred.
• At least 10 years of relevant industry experience shipping world class products on cloud native infrastructure such as Kubernetes including managing operational excellence and security / compliance goals. Experience with Azure is preferred.
• At least 3 years leading 1st level software engineering managers and their teams, including setting standards for hiring, performance reviews, and budget spend.
• Experience building IaC platforms designed to scale with multiple different application stacks in several customer environments using tools such as Terraform.
• Proven experience with Systems, Network and Application security best practices, threat models, defensive security best practices, writing code to test systems and applications by employing techniques such as Penetration Testing and Chaos Engineering.
• Demonstrated success with incubating new product ideas from conception to scaling with multiple customers. This includes defining and managing success outcomes for the engineering team, including operational excellence, security and compliance, as well as supporting the goals of Product, UX, and business partners.Collaboration within a global environment
• -in-country and international teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with success in effectively communicating at all levels of an organization.
• Organizational development skills. Positive mind set with the proven ability to build a strong organization with a positive culture.

This is a vital management role for the Digital Innovation Group at Providence. Key goals are:

• Lead SRE and operations teams to deliver secure, repeatable, reliable, and privacy-first cloud infrastructure and tools. You are a hands-on leader who defines product architecture and what success looks like from both a business and technology perspective.
• Develop effective relationships with your peers, internalize feedback, and get buy-in for the needs of the engineering team.
• Develop infrastructure roadmaps and work with engineering teams to plan, estimate, and deliver supporting infrastructure for their projects and product verticals.
• Own reporting tools to communicate to engineers and leadership the security posture of our cloud infrastructure, and operational health.
• Ride the crest of the tech wavefront with a voracious appetite for current technology trends.
• Manage, hire and develop a world-class engineering and operations team.
• Promote a culture of diversity and equity through hiring and developing talent and delivering the right products that support these values