Director of Application Development
The Director Application Development work across leadership and the team to manage and optimize the development and engineering practices in and fast-paced agile environment. This role is also responsible for collaborating with the respective business stakeholders, software teams, and vendors in ensuring well-defined technology roadmap, user stories and prioritized product backlogs in support of the overall business strategy while ensuring best practices for application development are being followed.
Responsibilities:
- Build and lead a highly talented, top-performing, efficient, autonomous engineering and development team
- Oversee end-to-end software engineering, including web development, mobile development, back-end API’s, database
- Review and participates in key architecture and technical design decisions
- Assist in definition of technology roadmaps, products and improvements aligned with appropriate product and business roadmaps
- Advance architecture, process, and tools through innovation, cutting edge technology and research
- Drive continuous improvement and automates tools, processes, and technology to allow for greater engineering throughput, quality, capabilities, skills and delivery
- Own outcomes of engineering, planning, execution, and delivery on complex projects
- Responsible for deliverables including, but not limited to: ALM process, release schedule, product roadmap, prioritized backlog, user stories, product documentation, estimation, release budgeting and forecasting, and status reports.
- Personnel duties including hiring talent, professional growth of direct reports, vendor management, building new teams
- Able to measure organizational progress and health through metrics and results
- Foster great business relationships by partnering with key stakeholders and cross functional leadership teams
- Bridge communications between the business and IT teams and take full ownership of the product development lifecycle in-line with Agile principles
- Support and troubleshoot production issues
- Work with IT Operations in developing a DevOps strategy for the build and deployment of software solutions
- Manage a team of engineers in defining, documenting, and developing software for our company’s platform
- Work closely with the Chief Technology Officer and department leadership teams to explore new technologies and promote an agile culture
- Provide expertise in identifying and translating system requirements into software design documentation
- Lead architecture and technical design discussions, technical design/specifications, and code reviews with key stakeholders
Experience / Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science / Information Systems or equivalent experience
- Minimum 10 years software development & architecture leadership experience
- Must have 5+ years’ experience in healthcare
- 4+ years of hands-on technical leadership including use of Agile/SCRUM practices
- PMP or CSM is a plus
- Experience successfully working with internal and outsourced / Offshore staffing models
- Business Requirements Gathering
- Application Lifecycle Management, SDLC, and Support, Traditional & Agile PM Methodologies
- Project Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Tracking, Budgeting, and Reporting
- Risk & Issue Planning (Identification, Mitigation, Resolution)
- Strong Diagnostic & Analytical Capabilities
- Excellent Written & Oral Communication Skills with all levels of management
- Ability to prepare formal management presentations, along with organizing and conducting effective meetings
- Web, Mobile, App development experience
- Considerable knowledge of data security and privacy regulations and requirements and software development best practices for compliance
- Programming Languages/Frameworks: ASP.NET, Struts, Angular, JSP, HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, Typescript, Ajax
- Practices: Site Reliability Engineering, Monitoring, Application Resiliency/Failover/Fault Tolerance, Unit Testing, DevOps, CICD, Test Automation, SOA, Microservices, Application Security
- Experience with cloud services specifically AWS
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
Interested candidates can apply using the above details.
Job Title: Director of Application Development
If Interested in Joining The Vohra Team please send your resume directly to: Meghan Thomas – Head of Talent Acquisition (mthomas@vohraphysicians.com)
Position: Director of Application Development
Location: Onsite at 3601 SW 160th Ave, Ste 250, Miramar, FL, 33027
Salary Starting at $150K / COE