Build technology that helps move healthcare forward.

Netsmart is seeking a Director, Engineering Development to lead software engineering teams focused on building scalable, reliable, and high-quality technology solutions that support our healthcare platform and the clients we serve.

About Netsmart
Netsmart is a leading healthcare technology organization dedicated to Moving Healthcare Forward, Together. For more than 55 years, Netsmart has partnered with community-based and post-acute care providers to improve outcomes for the individuals and communities they serve.

Role Overview
We are seeking a Director, Engineering Development to lead software engineering teams focused on enterprise software delivery, platform scalability, technical excellence, and strong execution. This is an onsite leadership role based in Overland Park, KS.
This role is ideal for an engineering leader who grew up through software development, technical leadership, or architecture and brings credibility with engineering teams because they understand how modern software is designed, built, shipped, and supported.
The right leader will bring a strong development foundation, the ability to guide architecture and delivery decisions, and experience working with distributed teams, including teams in India. This leader will balance technical depth with people leadership, delivery discipline, and cross-functional partnership.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Lead software engineering teams responsible for building, enhancing, and supporting enterprise healthcare technology solutions
• Drive execution across software quality, performance, security, reliability, scalability, and operational readiness
• Translate product and business priorities into engineering roadmaps, delivery plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes
• Create clarity around priorities, ownership, decision-making, dependencies, and delivery expectations
• Ensure teams are delivering high-quality software through disciplined Agile practices and structured execution
• Partner with leaders across engineering, product, architecture, and operations to remove obstacles and improve delivery flow

Technical & Architecture Leadership

• Provide technical leadership across application development, architecture, integrations, APIs, cloud-based systems, and platform modernization
• Guide architecture and engineering tradeoffs using practical, hands-on knowledge of software development
• Partner with architects and senior engineers to establish reusable patterns, technical standards, design practices, and code quality expectations
• Promote scalable, maintainable, and sustainable engineering practices across teams
• Help teams modernize platforms, reduce technical debt, and improve system performance and reliability
• Bring credibility to technical conversations through a background in engineering, architecture, or hands-on software delivery

Global Team Leadership

• Lead and collaborate with distributed engineering teams, including teams based in India
• Build strong working relationships across geographies, time zones, and cultures
• Create consistent expectations for delivery, communication, accountability, and engineering standards across global teams
• Partner effectively with offshore and onsite leaders to ensure alignment, execution, and team engagement
• Support a collaborative operating model that enables teams to move efficiently while maintaining quality and clarity

People Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead, coach, and develop high-performing engineering teams and engineering leaders
• Mentor managers, technical leads, architects, and engineers to strengthen technical capability and leadership effectiveness
• Build a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Recruit, retain, and grow technical talent aligned with Netsmart values, engineering standards, and delivery expectations
• Help teams navigate complexity, prioritize effectively, and stay focused on business and client impact

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner closely with Product Management to deliver solutions aligned to client needs, market priorities, and business outcomes
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, Operations, Architecture, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions are reliable, secure, and scalable
• Communicate technical strategy, delivery progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to senior leaders and cross-functional partners
• Build trust with stakeholders through transparency, sound judgment, and consistent execution

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of software engineering, software development, or technology leadership experience
• Proven experience leading engineering teams with increasing scope and accountability
• Strong foundation as a software engineer, technical lead, architect, or engineering leader
• Demonstrated ability to guide architecture, software design, engineering execution, and delivery strategy
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices, Agile delivery, DevOps, APIs, integrations, cloud-based architectures, and distributed systems
• Experience leading global or distributed engineering teams, including teams in India
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed organization and partner across engineering, product, architecture, security, operations, and business teams
• Strong communication, people leadership, technical judgment, execution discipline, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work onsite in Overland Park, KS

Preferred

• Healthcare technology experience
• Experience working in regulated industries
• Experience modernizing engineering practices, improving platform scalability, or establishing reusable architecture patterns
• Experience leading teams through technical transformation, platform modernization, or enterprise software delivery
• Background in software architecture, application development, or technical leadership within enterprise product environments

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means becoming a trusted engineering leader who can turn strategy into practical execution. You will help teams deliver scalable technology solutions, strengthen engineering discipline, and continue building a high-performing engineering culture.

You will be known for strong technical credibility, clear operating discipline, people leadership, and the ability to partner across the organization to deliver technology that supports clients, providers, and communities.

Why Netsmart

At Netsmart, you will build technology that truly matters. This role offers the opportunity to lead impactful engineering development work within a mission-driven organization where innovation supports clinicians, providers, organizations, and communities every day.

This is an opportunity for a proven engineering leader to join Netsmart onsite in Overland Park, KS and help lead the next chapter of software engineering excellence.

Netsmart Values in Action

Value

How This Leader Shows Up

Bold

Makes clear technical decisions, challenges assumptions, and helps teams move complex work forward.

Passionate

Cares deeply about engineering excellence, associate growth, and technology that supports healthcare impact.

Relentless

Drives accountability, delivery discipline, and continuous improvement through complexity.

Collaborative

Builds trust across engineering, product, architecture, operations, and global teams. #LI-KG1

Netsmart is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer, providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all associates. All employment decisions at Netsmart, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, promotion and transfer, are based on performance, qualifications, abilities, education and experience. Netsmart does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Netsmart desires to provide a healthy and safe workplace and, as a government contractor, Netsmart is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with applicable federal law. Pursuant to Netsmart policy, all post-offer candidates are required to successfully complete a pre-employment background check, including a drug screen, which is provided at Netsmart’s sole expense. In the event a candidate tests positive for a controlled substance, Netsmart will rescind the offer of employment unless the individual can provide proof of valid prescription to Netsmart’s third party screening provider.

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