Director of Engineering

About Vizient

When you’re the best, we’re the best.

We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves .

We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams through coaching, mentorship, performance management, and career development.
• Recruit, develop, and retain engineering talent while building succession plans and strengthening organizational capability.
• Define and execute engineering strategy, technical roadmaps, and modernization initiatives aligned to product and business objectives.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Security, Operations, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable software solutions.
• Establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, and governance processes that promote quality, maintainability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Provide executive oversight for partner-delivered and vendor-supported engineering initiatives, ensuring accountability, transparency, and delivery excellence.
• Review and challenge technical designs, architecture decisions, estimates, implementation approaches, and delivery plans.
• Lead platform modernization initiatives including cloud adoption, scalability improvements, technical debt reduction, systems integration, and architecture evolution.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including Agile delivery, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, observability, and reliability engineering.
• Own engineering readiness for production support, incident management, disaster recovery, service reliability, and operational resilience.
• Establish and monitor engineering KPIs related to delivery predictability, software quality, reliability, platform health, operational maturity, and team effectiveness.
• Lead technical risk assessment, dependency management, capacity planning, and resolution of complex engineering challenges across teams and business functions.
• Build strong partnerships with product, operations, customer support, and business stakeholders to ensure customer and operational priorities are reflected in engineering decisions.
• Promote engineering excellence through continuous improvement, innovation, automation, and knowledge-sharing practices.
• Communicate engineering strategy, delivery progress, organizational health, risks, and outcomes to executive leadership and key stakeholders.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Experience building, scaling, and leading software engineering organizations delivering enterprise SaaS and cloud-native applications required.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of software engineering experience required.
• 5 or more years of engineering leadership experience managing teams, engineering managers, or technical leaders required.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering organizations within a matrixed environment and aligning technical strategy with business objectives required.
• Experience defining and executing technical roadmaps, modernization strategies, and large-scale engineering initiatives required.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven systems, microservices, cloud-native engineering, and platform engineering practices required.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions on AWS, Azure, or other public cloud platforms required.
• Experience establishing operational excellence practices including monitoring, incident response, reliability engineering, disaster recovery, and production support required.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, coaching, organizational development, vendor management, and strategic planning skills required.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across engineering, product, architecture, operations, and executive leadership teams required.

Preferred

• Qualifications: Relevant bachelor's degree preferred; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams, offshore delivery organizations, or strategic technology partners preferred.
• Experience with enterprise integrations including APIs, messaging platforms, EDI, HL7, EMR/ERP integrations, and third-party technology ecosystems preferred.
• Experience implementing modern engineering practices including Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, automated testing, and security-by-design preferred.
• Experience leading modernization initiatives involving cloud migration, platform transformation, legacy modernization, or technical debt reduction preferred.
• Experience within healthcare, SaaS, supply chain, procurement, financial systems, or other regulated industries preferred.

Pay

• At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach.
• Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range.
• Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances.
• The current salary range for this role is $135,200.00 to $236,600.00.
• This position is also incentive eligible.

Benefits

• Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan!
• Please view our benefits here

Equal opportunity

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.