Director, Software Development

Job Title

Director, Software Development

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Alameda, CA office in the Lingo Division. Working on Lingo, you will help build a next-generation technology that enables individuals to make decisions about how to improve energy, lose weight or enhance athletic performance. The Lingo team embodies a start-up culture and mindset with the backing of Abbott, a company with a rich history of healthcare innovation.

The Director, Software Development establishes policies and procedures that produce high-quality digital software product. Directs and oversees the software engineering function in developing, releasing, and maintaining software applications for Lingo. Creates functional strategies and specific objectives for the sub-function and develops budgets/policies/procedures to support the functional requirements. Has deep knowledge of the managed sub-function and solid knowledge of the overall departmental function. Drive a culture of developing high quality software for our consumers.

What You’ll Work On

• A track record of launching high performance, high scale consumer facing mobile and web applications

• Manage teams of software developers and technical leads at multiple seniority levels

• Own software resource strategy and planning, including strategic working relationships with external partners

• Provide effective employee performance management utilizing goals, constructive feedback and coaching for improvement

• Collaborate with product owners, architects, and business units to translate business needs into high quality implementations

• Work with project managers, product owners, and technical leads to influence scope and priorities for product development

• Strong hands on technical knowledge or mobile and cloud technologies

• Author and update internal and external policies and procedures

• Effectively manage vendors to maximize value

• Maintain an excellent understanding of the business long term goals and strategy and ensures that designs are aligned with these

• Serve as mentor and coach to technical delivery staff

• Inspire and motivate the development teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency

• Promote knowledge sharing across product-development teams

• Assume a leadership role in ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery of products through the entire application life cycle

• Ensure a culture of design excellence, maturity, quality, collaboration, planning, and responsiveness in the software development team

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant field

• Minimum (10) ten years of experience managing large-scale digital software teams

• 2+ years experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong people management skills, proven success in recruiting, creating and motivating a strong performing engineering team

• Strong understanding of mobile and cloud based development methodologies and state of the art design patterns

• Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Test- driven development

• Medical Devices industry systems experience

• Ability to work independently and supervise a diverse staff

• Experience with Agile software development

• Ability to demonstrate initiative and strong technical knowledge

• Ability to coach/mentor IT staff members to function as a highly effective team

• Expertise in mobile and cloud development technologies. Strong technical skills and demonstrated ability to manage and developer teams for large systems.

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in setting and achieving business driven strategies and managing resources to plan. Ability to quickly analyze and make decisions regarding key technical decisions impacting system performance / commercial viability.