Director, Software Architecture - Hybrid

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Who we are:

We Are Modernizing Medicine (WAMM)! We’re a team of bright, passionate, and positive problem-solvers on a mission to place doctors and patients at the center of care through an intelligent, specialty-specific cloud platform. Our vision is a world where the software we build increases medical practice success and improves patient outcomes. Founded in 2010 by Daniel Cane and Dr. Michael Sherling, we have grown to over 3400 combined direct and contingent team members serving eleven specialties, and we are just getting started! ModMed is based in Boca Raton, FL, with office locations in Santiago, Chile, Berlin, Germany, Hyderabad, India, and a robust remote workforce with team members across the US.

ModMed is hiring a driven Director, Software Architecture responsible for directing Architecture leaders, architects, and teams to make good technology decisions that are innovative, fiscally responsible, and aligned with the overall Technology Strategy. This role will oversee an architecture organization offering guidance, strategy, and technical solutions. Utilize extensive expertise in defining technical solutions, assumptions, constraints, and a quality plan for each opportunity or body of work being proposed (features/initiatives) for a given line of business. Accountable for realizing the business and technology strategies through architecture; enabling the architecture organization to develop, educate and engage other parts of the organization in the implementation and operation of the architecture. This role will collaborate across the organization to prioritize software development needs including design, development, documenting, and testing new and existing software. The Director, Software Architecture will evaluate results within the enterprise to determine if organizational objectives are being met as well as analyze and resolve software development issues and needs in terms of the software's full life cycle.

Your Role:

Oversee the software architecture function including the development and implementation of business plans, policies, and procedures including but not limited to:

• Participating in the development of strategies and business plans for new ModMed software products
• Working across multiple product/service teams to help build a unified cloud engineering organization
• Aligning with cross-functional team owners to understand initiatives and implementations.
• Working with product owners across the businesses to understand market needs & vision; quickly translate that vision into demonstrable software.
• Delivering 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.
• Working directly with customers to understand their business and technical needs.
• Driving 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.
• Providing 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.
• Driving world-class quality in the development and support of products allowing IP/assets be leveraged by various business models as appropriate through to delivery.
• Communicating 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.
• Managing strategic business partnerships and relationships through Technical, Financial, Contractual and Relationship Management.
• Building 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.

Skills & 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

ModMed Benefits Highlight:

At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits, including:

• 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.