Director, Software Engineering

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. 

Position Description: 

Leads the design of scalable, secure software solutions using Java, Spring Boot, GitHub Copilot, Postgres SQL, and REST APIs. Oversees Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and containerized deployments on cloud platforms. Ensures compliance with secure coding practices and industry standards. Analyzes user needs and translates them into technical requirements and system designs. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by developing complex, multi-faceted software applications. Researches and recommends new technologies in support of the strategic direction of the business unit and participates in the research and recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions. Leads and mentors team of engineers, drives technical strategy and delivery, and makes a significant impact on technology landscape.  

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level. 

• Participates in high-level, cross-functional architecture design teams. 

• Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company  strategic designs. 

• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit. 

• Consults on deployment of major project deliverables. 

• Consults on the documentation of major technology applications. 

• Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or company architectural components. 

• Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues. 

• Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization. 

• Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives. 

• Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects. 

• Advises senior management on technical strategy. 

• Researches and recommends new technologies. 

• Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives. 

• Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development. 

• Identifies and plans for future resource needs. 

• Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit. 

Education and Experience: 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) developing applications that support healthcare recordkeeping products. 

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) developing applications that support healthcare recordkeeping products. 

Skills and Knowledge: 

Candidate must also possess: 

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing development, incident management, and production support -- maintaining highly sensitive client data involving complex batch processing and third-party electronic feed integrations -- within a health insurance and healthcare domain, using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data, JPA, REST Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Kafka, and Kafka Connect.   

• DE performing Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and Java Web application development using Java/J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring Security, SOAP, and RESTful Web Services; developing micro-services architecture using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA); and writing effective SQL stored procedures, optimizing existing structures, and fine-tuning SQL code.  

• DE developing enterprise applications in a complex distributed environment, using OOD; implementing enterprise-wide Web Services and API solutions, using SOAP and REST design principles; and creating operational procedure documents and release documents for every release.  

• DE performing data profiling, mining, specification, extraction, cleansing, and analysis for large relational databases -- Postgres; developing and building SQL code using Git-stash; conducting release management using uDeploy; maintaining automation and implementation processes using SourceTree and Jenkins; building shell scripts to automate batch processing using Control M; and generating consumer reports using PL/SQL and Postgres functions. 

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