Manager of Engineering

Who We Are
 

At VPL we modernize clinical supply chains to support healthier patients. Our technology-driven solutions and consultative customer experience empower health systems and outpatient pharmacies to build smarter, more resilient supply chains. With over 700 hospitals and a 97 percent customer retention rate, we’re trusted to deliver transparency, cost savings, and peace of mind. 

What We’re Looking For 

Our Manager of Engineering will report to the SVP of Engineering and is responsible for
leading our pharmacy product-focused engineering team. You’ll balance people leadership with hands-on technical stewardship in a .NET/Azure environment—shipping high-quality software at a pace that unlocks customer value. The position is for a player coach.  You’ll stay hands on through design reviews, PR guidance, technical decision-making, and coding. 

What You'll Do 

• Develop and mentor senior and mid-level engineers, guiding them toward autonomy and technical excellence through coaching, design feedback, and career growth planning  

• Deliver value predictably: own planning, refinement, execution, release quality, and production validation for your teams. 

• Build an inclusive, supportive, and collaborative culture where everyone does their best work 

• Foster a collaborative environment with numerous cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of product requirements, resources, delivery timing, quality, data integrity and technical architectural aspects of software products 

• Works to coordinate priorities, direction, and adeptly and tactfully manages the communication between Senior Leadership and Engineering 

• Effectively delegate responsibilities to next level team members through coaching and support providing opportunities to grow successfully 

• Lead or participate in technical aspects of software development  

• Accurately translate requirements into product and process flows and development requirements (features, user stories, acceptance criteria) 

• Lead planning meetings with engineering teams, including refinement, production validation testing, and issue management 

• Create and implement strategy roadmaps with the engineering team to ensure all phases of development remain within the scope of the project 

• Manage engineers to
  create
  cutting-edge and scalable applications 

• Interact with internal and external customers to design, develop and support software products 

What You'll Bring 

• 3+ years leading software engineers (people leadership for multiple devs and/or multiple teams). 

• Recent hands-on experience with C#/.NET and Azure services (Azure App Services, Azure SQL) sufficient to coach and review design/PRs. 

• Track record of shipping products in iterative, data-driven environments; strong backlog/roadmap management with product partners. 

• Excellent communication up/down/across; adept at translating exec priorities into team plans. 

• Experience hiring/interviewing technical talent for remote teams. 

Nice to Have 

• Experience leading teams developing cloud applications
  using modern DevOps practices. 

• Experience leading teams developing on premise software. 

• Background with healthcare, logistics, or regulated data (SOC 2, HIPAA considerations). 

• Observability (App Insights), CI/CD in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and performance/cost optimization in cloud. 

• Microservices, messaging, or data-integrity patterns at scale. 

• Experience deploying applications in containers (Docker) and orchestrating with Kubernetes. 

• Familiarity with GitOps workflows or infrastructure-as-code practices.