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Job descriptions aren't perfect and not all applicants will have skills that match this job description exactly. The attributes listed below represent our current thinking for the role but you might be a great candidate even if you don't fit everything we've described. We value diverse experiences and you may have important skills we haven't thought of. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply. If this role isn't quite right for you, please look at our other openings by searching #AscensionStudio at jobs.ascension.org.
What you will do:
You will be a leading change agent in the software engineering organization. As Director, Software Engineering, you are responsible for inspiring the team to deliver high quality digital products with speed and efficiency. You will drive operational excellence within the software engineering team through robust budgeting and contract management. You will hire great talent and manage a team of engineering leaders. Success in your role will ensure successful, high-quality technical delivery and implementation of assigned software products according to project timelines. You are fully accountable for creating a culture of engineering excellence and managing the growth and development of the engineers within the organization.
Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 150,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.
Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you. Equal Employment Opportunity Employer:
For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster.
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Please note that Ascension will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Ascension will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.
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Salary Description: Minimum Salary: $117,270.40+ per year
- Department: Ascension Studio
- Schedule: Full time
- Location: Fully remote with potential for quarterly travel
As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.
What You Will Do:
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Ascension Studio is transforming healthcare by delivering brand-wide experiences powered by people, design, data and technology for those we seek to serve and for those who serve. We believe the best solutions come from a deep understanding of user needs, business considerations and technical possibilities. We focus on outcomes rather than outputs, measure the impact of our solutions, and continuously improve and upgrade our solutions over time. We believe empowered teams, given clear structure, goals and lightweight processes, produce great solutions.
Job descriptions aren't perfect and not all applicants will have skills that match this job description exactly. The attributes listed below represent our current thinking for the role but you might be a great candidate even if you don't fit everything we've described. We value diverse experiences and you may have important skills we haven't thought of. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply. If this role isn't quite right for you, please look at our other openings by searching #AscensionStudio at jobs.ascension.org.
What you will do:
You will be a leading change agent in the software engineering organization. As Director, Software Engineering, you are responsible for inspiring the team to deliver high quality digital products with speed and efficiency. You will drive operational excellence within the software engineering team through robust budgeting and contract management. You will hire great talent and manage a team of engineering leaders. Success in your role will ensure successful, high-quality technical delivery and implementation of assigned software products according to project timelines. You are fully accountable for creating a culture of engineering excellence and managing the growth and development of the engineers within the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Engineering Lead
- Responsible for leading the engineering teams for multiple strategic digital products; accountable for engineering planning, delivery, quality and operations of the products within these tiles.
- Owns collaboration and alignment with Experience, Product, Architecture and Product Delivery to drive product goals, outcomes, and release timelines.
- Accountable for driving technical design decisions, product functional and non-functional quality, and delivery.
- Leads stakeholder engagement & communication of vision, strategy, plans, and delivery progress.
- Engineering Focus
- Leads by example in the design and development of high-quality, performant, scalable, maintainable code, leveraging cloud services, and shift-left practices of testing, code quality checks, observability bolted in, performance, and security; fosters a strong peer review culture within engineering teams.
- Operational Excellence
- Drives operational excellence within the engineering organization by embedding DevSecOps practices of building infrastructure as code, continuous integration through deployment automation, driving operations workflow by leveraging the observability tooling and incident management and trouble management best practices.
- Inspires a strong SRE mindset within engineering teams that are responsible for both development and support the product.
- Stewards metrics driven product health reporting.
- Software Engineering Thought Leadership
- Participates in the development of a Ascension studio wide engineering strategy, including frameworks, patterns, delivery approach, DevOps, operational excellence, standards, best practices and blueprints for delivering digital products.
- Drives improvements to the engineering maturity of your tile by improving speed, quality, and value of software products.
- Ensures the Studio stays current with technical and industry trends in digital engineering- web, mobile, server technologies; applies current methods to lead solutioning or problem solving discussions and knowledge sharing with compelling presentations, demos.
- Talent Management
- Ensures proper staffing and resource planning.
- Mentors, supports, cultivates and manages a strong team of Engineering managers, individual contributors and contractors to deliver against Ascension strategies.
- Builds, recruits and grows the Engineering team to develop top talent & ensure successful delivery.
- Budgeting and Contract Support
- Stewards tracking of budget against plan and budget refinement.
- Supports service provider and tools contract reviews.
Characteristics We Seek:
- Be curious about technology. The software engineering industry is constantly changing and evolving. At Ascension, we embrace change and are curious to learn how the latest technology can be used to improve the lives of patients and our clinicians.
- Learn and grow professionally. We strive for continuous improvement of our Ascension Studio organization and our team members do the same. This comes from the path of constant learning, in addition to reflecting on past experiences for improvement opportunities.
- Always ready for change. A rolling stone gathers no moss, and neither do we. We accept that change is always around us, and our work is no exception. We navigate change through early and often communication; engage the ambiguous; promote diversity; accept new ideas; and lean on learning agility.
- Seek feedback. Feedback is important to us. We use it as a guide for our own development, and we build our software with feedback built into the process. It is incorporated into our software development lifecycle with design, code reviews, unit tests, and continuous integration. Feedback is also integrated into our shipped solutions with application performance monitoring (APM) and usage analytics to help us learn methods to improve.
- Sound awareness of self and situations. We understand the importance of knowing our best selves, and the value gained from our teams to compensate for our shortcomings. Equally important is our ability to assess situations with a calm and clear mind, and develop next steps to proceed in the best manner possible.
- Demonstrate positivity. Our organization's focus is all about solving problems, and most of these problems are challenging. We try not to let that get in our way of thinking positively - instead it's what motivates us to reach higher.
- Work with your team. We understand that our best work comes from working together. Our teams enjoy working together, sharing knowledge, helping, mentoring, and delivering our best for the communities we serve.
- Live Ascension’s core values. The Ascension core values are the standard that we hold ourselves to and a source of pride for us. We live by them. Our core values include: service of the poor; reverence; integrity; wisdom; creativity; and dedication.
Education:
- High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's degree, or Bachelor's degree required.
- Master's degree preferred.
Work Experience:
- 5 years of experience required.
- 10 years of experience preferred.
- 2 years of leadership or management experience required.
- 5 years of leadership or management experience preferred.
- 10+ years of overall software engineering experience with 5+ years of experience in managing teams.
- Expertise in architecting, designing and developing scalable, performant and highly available consumer-facing digital applications
- Expertise in building modern digital applications using tools like search (ELK, Lucidworks Fusion, etc.), integration (GraphQL REST), microservices layer (SpringBoot), databases (Cloud SQL, MongoDB) etc.
- Experience in observability platforms like Dynatrace, DataDog, etc.
- Experience in cloud native applications using GCP, Azure and Google Healthcare API.
- Experience in leveraging experimentation solutions such as Optimizely, LaunchDarkly, etc.
- Experience in leveraging analytics solutions such as Google Analytics, Amplitude, etc.
- Experience in healthcare standards FHIR, HL7, and regulations like HIPAA, Cures Act, etc.
- Experience in OAuth 2.0.
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals in OOAD, SOLID, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
- Strong understanding of professional software engineering best practices for full SDLC including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing and operations.
- Demonstrated mastery of the full SDLC including CI/CD and modern build and deployment tools.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
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Why Join Our Team:
Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.
Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 150,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.
Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.
Ascension will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster.
Pay Non-Discrimination Notice
Please note that Ascension will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Ascension will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.
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