Director - Technology - US Healthcare

Technology Roadmap :

- Serves as a technical expert representative across teams, clients, and the information technology industry.

- Offers technical support across practices in offering definition and positioning.

- Suggests alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements more efficiently, and/or with greater reusability, and / or longer life.

- Forecast, plan, research and select new technology impacts throughout decision making process

- Analyze various technical solutions and recommend based on technical and financial merits

- Identify and investigate advanced technologies offering company significant technical and financial benefits

- Product Development and Delivery - Take ownership of defining technology strategy, end to end solution architecture, high level design of solutions with wide ranging technologies that include relevant healthcare technology off-the-shelf platforms/products for business functions

- Promotes and coordinates technical knowledge harvesting within the organization.

- Defines, communicates and enforces coding standards.

- Identifies reusable code required for our code library and ensures the high-quality creation of the code.

- Manages multiple technical teams within budget and project schedule.

- Tracks and identifies new opportunities to improve our methodology and training offerings.

- Assists in strategic sales efforts from a technical perspective.

- Consistently delivers high-quality services to our clients.

Possesses significant technical knowledge of:

- Complex database concepts and assists in establishing standards applied across project teams

- Various programming languages and assists in establishing standards applied across project teams

- Object Oriented concepts and assists in establishing standards applied across project teams

- Java, JEE, Spring Framework, Junit, JSON, XML, SQL, Eclipse/NetBeans, J2EE, Servlets, JSP/JSF, JAX-RS/WS, Spring MVC/Web Flow/Web Flux/Data, ReactJs/AngularJs, JavaScript, REST, SOAP, XML/XSD, PS/SQL, ElasticSearch, Oracle 11g/SQL Server

- Hands-on experience with SQL, entity modeling, and relational databases and star schema; Familiarity with Columnar databases

- Good Understanding of Big Data Technologies (HADOOP, Spark) and Cloud technologies (AWS / Azure)

- Strong experience in domain-driven design, UML, Architecture and Design Patterns

- Proficiency with SDLC methodologies including Agile, Iterative methodologies

- Strong Understanding of CMM or other Process

Communication:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Handles difficult personnel situations directly, using appropriate discretion, HR advice, and respect for the individual.

Leadership:

- Achieves excellence in all areas of business.

- Excellent Interpersonal skills

- Champions change and effectively manages the implementation of new ideas

Teamwork:

- Reinforces team approach throughout development efforts

- Supports and solicits input from team members at all levels within the organization.

Client Management :

- Represent company's software development expertise in winning of new business along with sales team

- Communicates effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative technical solutions and strategies.

- Continually defines ways to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships.

- Maintains lasting client relationships.

- Ensures that we consistently deliver superior technical solutions to clients.

Internal Operations :

- Reviews status reports of Technical Managers and Senior Technical Managers and addresses issues as appropriate.

- Enforces standard policies and procedures.

Healthcare Domain Knowledge :

- Functional understanding about US healthcare IT functionalities viz; HIPAA / HL7 / FHIR / ICD-CPT claims data / EDI etc.

- Strong knowledge about payer/health plans market

- Strong knowledge of healthcare workflows and business processes

Educational Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

- Master's degree in computer science or related field is preferred