IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF YOUR CAREER AT ZYNX HEALTH
Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health Network, is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Development to lead software engineering execution across multiple development teams. This role directly manages Software Development Leads and is accountable for software delivery, engineering quality, release readiness, development practices, resource planning, and cross-team coordination.
This leader provides organizational leadership, standards, governance, coaching, and delivery oversight across teams. DevOps resources are embedded within individual development teams and managed by the respective Software Development Leads; this role provides the cross-team standards, governance, and oversight that keep engineering practices aligned.
This is an opportunity for a people-focused, delivery-oriented engineering leader to strengthen engineering consistency, improve development practices, mature release readiness, reduce technical debt, and support responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Software Engineering Leadership
- Lead the overall software engineering organization through Software Development Leads.
- Manage, coach, and develop Software Development Leads, setting clear priorities, ownership, delivery expectations, and accountability.
- Provide leadership across multiple software development teams, workstreams, and technology platforms.
- Support team maturity, leadership development, performance management, onboarding, retention, and succession planning.
Delivery Execution and Cross-Team Coordination
- Own software delivery execution, sprint and release readiness, quality practices, resource planning, and cross-team dependency management.
- Translate product and technology priorities into clear team plans, delivery expectations, milestones, and execution priorities.
- Identify and communicate delivery risks, blockers, dependencies, staffing needs, operational concerns, and recommended actions.
- Partner with product management, architecture, data platforms, security, compliance, QA, and business stakeholders to align delivery execution with business and technology priorities.
Engineering Standards and Development Practices
- Establish and reinforce consistent engineering standards across teams, including maintainable design, code quality, documentation, testing, code review, release readiness, and operational readiness.
- Ensure Software Development Leads apply consistent development, CI/CD, operational support, and team-level DevOps practices within their teams.
- Promote reusable patterns, responsible modernization, automation, and technical-debt reduction while balancing speed, quality, security, and reliability.
- Define and monitor engineering metrics related to delivery predictability, quality, release readiness, operational health, and team effectiveness.
Embedded DevOps and Operational Readiness
- Provide governance and oversight for embedded DevOps practices across development teams.
- Ensure team-level DevOps execution aligns with organization-wide standards for CI/CD, deployment automation, observability, incident response, and operational support.
- Partner closely with the Senior Manager, Data Platforms & Architecture and the Senior Manager, Security & Compliance on platform, infrastructure, architecture, security, compliance, and operational initiatives.
- Support continuous improvement in release processes, deployment reliability, observability, and production support practices.
AI-Assisted Engineering and Continuous Improvement
- Establish expectations for responsible use of AI-assisted coding and engineering tools.
- Ensure AI-generated code, scripts, documentation, tests, automation, and technical recommendations are reviewed for quality, security, maintainability, and appropriateness.
- Encourage practical use of AI-assisted tools to improve productivity, troubleshooting, documentation, testing, refactoring, and delivery efficiency.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, engineering accountability, and thoughtful innovation.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- 8+ years of experience in software development, software engineering leadership, application development, DevOps, platform engineering, or related technology roles.
- 3+ years of experience leading or managing software development teams, technical leads, engineering leads, or cross-functional engineering teams.
- Experience managing software delivery across multiple teams, workstreams, or product delivery areas.
- Experience leading through technical leads, team leads, or first-line engineering leaders.
- Strong people leadership, coaching, mentoring, performance management, communication, and team-development skills.
- Strong understanding of modern software development lifecycle practices, CI/CD, DevOps principles, cloud-native platforms, secure software delivery, and operational readiness.
- Ability to translate product and technology priorities into clear team plans, execution priorities, and measurable delivery outcomes.
- Experience partnering with architecture, security, compliance, QA, product management, data platforms, and business stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of relevant technologies such as Java, Groovy, Spring Boot, Svelte, SvelteKit, TypeScript, Vite, React, .NET Core, C#, MarkLogic, Redis, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, Tekton, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Keycloak, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, or related tools.
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent practical experience.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Experience in healthcare, clinical content, regulated software, compliance-driven environments, or enterprise SaaS.
- Experience leading distributed or remote software engineering teams.
- Experience improving engineering standards, release-readiness practices, CI/CD consistency, or operational support models across multiple teams.
- Experience guiding responsible adoption of AI-assisted coding or engineering productivity tools.
- Familiarity with embedded DevOps models, platform engineering partnerships, or shared engineering-practice governance.
About Zynx Health
Zynx Health, a part of Hearst Health, is a market leader in providing evidence-based clinical decision support solutions that help healthcare organizations measurably improve patient outcomes, enhance safety, and lower costs.
Thousands of hospital organizations and providers rely on Zynx Health's rigorously developed and maintained evidence-based clinical content, patented technology, and tailored services to drive clinical improvements at the point of care. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day, for every patient, every time.
Zynx Health seeks to hire and train employees who uphold and mirror our core values of Bold Innovation, Passion, Integrity, Respect, and Excellence. To learn more, visit www.zynxhealth.com.
Zynx Health offers competitive salary and extensive benefits - including medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, life insurance, and matching 401k.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected military and veteran status.
In accordance with applicable law, Zynx is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role where required. The reasonable estimate for this role in Dallas, Texas is $160,000 - $180,000. If this role is open to candidates outside of that location, the salary range would be aligned to that specific location. A final decision on the successful candidate’s starting salary will be based on a number of permissible, non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to skills and experience, training, certifications, and education.
This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending savings account; paid holidays; paid time off; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in software development, software engineering leadership, application development, DevOps, platform engineering, or related technology roles
- 3+ years of experience leading or managing software development teams, technical leads, engineering leads, or cross-functional engineering teams
- Experience managing software delivery across multiple teams, workstreams, or product delivery areas
- Experience leading through technical leads, team leads, or first-line engineering leaders
- Strong people leadership, coaching, mentoring, performance management, communication, and team-development skills
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle practices, CI/CD, DevOps principles, cloud-native platforms, secure software delivery, and operational readiness
- Ability to translate product and technology priorities into team plans, execution priorities, and measurable delivery outcomes
- Experience partnering with architecture, security, compliance, QA, product management, data platforms, and business stakeholders
- Working knowledge of relevant software development, cloud, DevOps, observability, and security technologies
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in healthcare, clinical content, regulated software, compliance-driven environments, or enterprise SaaS
- Experience leading distributed or remote software engineering teams
- Experience improving engineering standards, release-readiness practices, CI/CD consistency, or operational support models across multiple teams
- Experience guiding responsible adoption of AI-assisted coding or engineering productivity tools
- Familiarity with embedded DevOps models, platform engineering partnerships, or shared engineering-practice governance
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
Hearst Insights
What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
