Director, Software Architecture

Summary

Join Modernizing Medicine (ModMed) as their driven Director, Software Architecture! You will lead architecture leaders, architects, and teams in making innovative and fiscally responsible technology decisions aligned with the company's strategy. This role involves overseeing the architecture organization, providing guidance and technical solutions, and collaborating across the organization to prioritize software development needs. You will be accountable for realizing business and technology strategies through architecture, ensuring the architecture organization's development and engagement with other parts of the organization. The position requires extensive expertise in defining technical solutions and a strong understanding of the software development life cycle. ModMed offers a competitive benefits package.

Requirements

• Excellent transformative leadership and people management skills including solid technical, communication and analytical skills with thorough understanding of product development and successful problem definition, decomposition, estimation and resolution
• Proficient with various software methodologies (Agile, Lean, SAFe etc.) for both on premise and SaaS based architectures
• Hands-on experience with modern DevOps, SRE techniques, automation frameworks and operational principles of a large-scale distributed SaaS application across multiple clouds
• Experience with technical design of scalable, robust systems using cloud native architecture principles
• Knowledge and expertise in providing common solutions by identifying and addressing patterns in infrastructure and applications
• Deep understanding of real-world solutions and solutions in availability, performance, security, compliance, and cost management
• Experience with Leadership of complex software development projects and teams through all phases of the software development life cycle
• Proven ability to scale applications horizontally with an engineering team
• Proven ability to provide leadership, technology guidance and mentorship to others throughout their domain
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with all levels of an organization
• Ability to work from the office 3 days a week

Responsibilities

• Oversee the software architecture function including the development and implementation of business plans, policies, and procedures
• Participate in the development of strategies and business plans for new ModMed software products
• Work across multiple product/service teams to help build a unified cloud engineering organization
• Align with cross-functional team owners to understand initiatives and implementations
• Work with product owners across the businesses to understand market needs & vision; quickly translate that vision into demonstrable software
• Deliver applications and services to validate and ensure the portfolio meets all operational standards
• Work with product owners and architects to develop multi-generation software technology plans
• Work directly with customers to understand their business and technical needs
• Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse, and commonality. Leads efforts to improve the technology, processes, and quality of new product prototypes
• Provide leadership for the migration and implementation of new ModMed product architectures. Leading the team with hands-on technical expertise to design, deploy, secure and optimize cloud services
• Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products allowing IP/assets be leveraged by various business models as appropriate through to delivery
• Communicate effectively both within the immediate team and leadership ensuring the team receives consistent messages and has a clear understanding of business direction, strategy and results
• Manage strategic business partnerships and relationships through Technical, Financial, Contractual and Relationship Management
• Build a world class software architecture team. Ensuring new and existing talent is in place to meet the changing needs of the enterprise through coaching, mentoring and leadership

Benefits

• Meals & Snacks: Enjoy complimentary office lunches & dinners on select days and healthy snacks delivered to your desk
• Insurance Coverage: Comprehensive health, accidental, and life insurance plans, including coverage for family members, all at no cost to employees
• Allowances: Annual wellness allowance to support your well-being and productivity
• Earned, casual, and sick leaves to maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Bereavement leave for difficult times and extended medical leave options
• Paid parental leaves, including maternity, paternity, adoption, surrogacy, and abortion leave
• Celebration leave to make your special day even more memorable, and company-paid holidays to recharge and unwind
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution
• 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep
• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs
• Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs
• Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed
• Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
• Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US), Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles
• Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters