Director/AVP - Information Systems - Clinical Solutions

Director/AVP - Information Systems for Clinical Solutions

Reports to: VP Technology

Position Overview: The Software Development Director is responsible for leading and coordinating software development and maintenance activities and personnel throughout the product development lifecycle. The ideal candidate has a strong passion for software technology, an ability to directly contribute to product development, and possesses previous experience delivering highly reliable, scalable enterprise class software applications.

Responsibilities

- Leadership of software development activities throughout the product development lifecycle for the IKS CARE Offerings

- Transform high-level strategic product direction into tactical product direction

- Effectively propose and manage schedules as well as resources

- Coordinate and coach development teams with a focus on collaboration, automation, and testing

- Assist in architecting and designing solutions based on strong knowledge of the technologies involved

- Contribute to development, and review of product requirements documents, and functional specifications

- Track progress, communicate risks and escalate concerns in a timely manner

- Establish software development practices and standards

- Build outcomes oriented development teams through clear expectations and objectives management, coaching, career development, and smart recruiting

- Responsible for responding to technical RFPs/ RFIs pertaining to the software being developed

- Work closely with Design & D team to design components/apps/API's etc. to automate key workflows and activities in new offerings

- Identify and build adaptors for key EHR platforms

- Drive development (build or buy) & deployment of platforms to deliver measurable improvements in quality, cost, productivity of major service lines

- Other duties as assigned

Experience, Knowledge, Skills/competencies required (what is expected to be achieved to meet organizational goals)

- 10 plus years- experience in software development and delivery of complex distributed enterprise applications with at-least 3 plus years- experience developing solutions for clinical operations.

- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on application development experience using Microsoft Technologies.

- Experience with full software development lifecycle including but not limited to waterfall, Agile and Scrum development practices

- Experience working with existing software and enhancing it using incremental design and development strategies.

- Solid US Healthcare knowledge and experience would be preferred.

- Passion for engineering excellence through unit testing, and process improvement.

- Experience in managing multiple projects/products at different stages of the lifecycle concurrently with ability to drive outcomes across.

- Experience in producing detailed project schedules, resource requirements and tracking to schedule.

- Analytical Skills with ability to truly understand the full scope and impact of the project requirements

- Knowledge and experience in projects involving interfacing of healthcare data and application (HL7, CCD, etc.) is a must.

- Experience in Requirements Gathering & Documentation, Risk & Issue Management

- Project Reporting, Ability to present to Customers & manage Customer relationships

- Proven delivery of successful enterprise products

- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment managing changing priorities

- Excellent problem solving demonstrating high level of creativity and innovation

- Excellent leadership and management skills including: expectations and objectives management, decision-making, delegation, empowerment, coaching, and delegation.

- Strong teaming skills including the ability to lead and be a team player

- Ability to communicate in concise written and verbal manners which are easily understood by a variety of audiences: technical, non-technical, and executive.