Director, Engineering

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60607, Chicago, IL, USA
In-Office
135K-237K Annually
Senior level
Analytics • Consulting
The Role
Provides senior technical and organizational leadership across engineering teams and domains. Responsibilities include developing talent, aligning technical roadmaps with enterprise strategy, partnering with product and architecture, managing technical risks, establishing engineering standards, overseeing Agile delivery, coordinating complex initiatives, and communicating outcomes to senior leadership. The role requires experience with infrastructure, platform or shared services teams and large-scale data applications, preferably in regulated industries.
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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.

Summary:

 

In this role, you will provide senior technical and organizational leadership across a domain cluster to strengthen engineering excellence, delivery capability, and consistent execution. You will develop engineering talent through coaching, performance management, and career development while translating enterprise strategy into actionable technical roadmaps. You will lead complex cross-functional initiatives, establish engineering standards and best practices, and partner with product, architecture, and business clients to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·       Provide strategic leadership, coaching, mentorship, and performance management for engineering teams.

·       Recruit, develop, and retain engineering talent while assessing team health and organizational needs.

·       Align quarterly and long-term technical roadmaps with enterprise and product strategies.

·       Partner with Product Management and Architecture to balance product priorities, technical debt, reliability, innovation, design, and dependencies.

·       Lead technical risk assessment, mitigation planning, and resolution of complex technical challenges across multiple teams.

·       Establish and promote engineering standards and best practices that support quality, security, scalability, and maintainability.

·       Oversee Agile delivery, quarterly goals, cross-team coordination, resource allocation, and execution of complex initiatives.

·       Serve as an escalation point for delivery risks, impediments, and product issues while communicating progress and outcomes to senior leadership.

·       Champion cross-domain collaboration, knowledge sharing, process improvement, and alignment with enterprise priorities.

·       Shape and execute engineering talent and organizational strategies that build long-term capabilities and support business needs.

 

Qualifications:

 

·       Relevant degree preferred.

·       7 or more years of relevant experience required.

·       Demonstrated success leading engineering teams and developing technical talent through coaching, mentorship, and performance management required.

·       Experience operating in a matrixed environment and aligning technical decisions with strategic business goals required.

·       Experience supporting or leading infrastructure, platform engineering, or shared services teams required.

·       Experience designing and deploying large-scale data applications required.

·       Experience in regulated industries such as healthcare preferred.

·       Strong knowledge of Agile delivery practices, technical roadmap development, and cross-functional engineering execution.

·       Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills with the ability to engage clients and senior leaders.

Estimated Hiring Range:

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.

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

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.

Skills Required

  • Relevant degree
  • 7 or more years of relevant experience
  • Success leading engineering teams and developing technical talent through coaching, mentorship, and performance management
  • Experience operating in a matrixed environment and aligning technical decisions with strategic business goals
  • Experience supporting or leading infrastructure, platform engineering, or shared services teams
  • Experience designing and deploying large-scale data applications
  • Experience in regulated industries such as healthcare
  • Knowledge of Agile delivery practices, technical roadmap development, and cross-functional engineering execution
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, including engagement with clients and senior leaders

Vizient Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vizient and has not been reviewed or approved by Vizient.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time off allowances are generous, with ample PTO and holidays available from day one. Separate paid volunteer days add additional protected time away.
  • Flexible Benefits Flexibility to work from anywhere for part of the year and hybrid options support work-life balance. Policies enabling remote periods complement the broader PTO structure.
  • Retirement Support Retirement benefits include a competitive 401(k) company match alongside HSA contributions on eligible plans. These elements strengthen long-term financial security within the total rewards package.

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The Company
HQ: Irving, TX
5,661 Employees
Year Founded: 1977

What We Do

Vizient, Inc., the nation’s largest health care performance improvement company, serves more than 50% of the nation’s acute care providers, which includes 97% of the nation’s academic medical centers, and more than 20% of ambulatory care providers. Vizient provides expertise, analytics and advisory services, as well as a contract portfolio that represents more than $130 billion in annual purchasing volume. Vizient is based in Dallas and has offices in 20 metropolitan areas across the United States. We have 4,000 employees with a breadth of expertise, experience and compassion, who are eager to develop and implement solutions that advance health care for the greater good.

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