Manager, Software Development
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.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and execute Collaborate with the Development, Product, and Architecture teams to:
- 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
- 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
Key Duties:
- 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
Key Competencies:
- 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
- Ability and willingness to travel to remote offices and partners, including international travel up to 4 weeks per year
Required Education, Certifications, and Experience:
- B.S. in 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 competence requirements:
- Java development
- Big data processing
- AWS Solutions Architecture
- Continuous integration, testing, and deployment
- Configuration management concepts in the AWS cloud
- Lucene stack (Elasticsearch and Apache Solr)
- Angular JS
Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS Certifications (Developer or Solutions Architect)
- Experience with Angular JS version 8
- Experience building and maintaining production systems within the AWS ecosystem
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 600 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Europe, Louisville, Colorado, just outside of Denver, with additional offices in Europe, Atlanta, Georgia and Omaha, Nebraska.
GHX provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. GHX complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
GHX expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of GHX’s employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.