The Sr. Manager, Software Development, is responsible for leading a team of talented engineers in delivering high-quality, scalable, modern software solutions. Reporting to the Director of Software Development, this role requires deep technical expertise, hands-on experience with modern development practices, and a proven track record of leading teams through complex technical transformations, such as transitioning from a monolithic architecture to microservices. The ideal candidate will drive technical excellence, mentor engineers, and champion efficient CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality. This individual will be required to balance multiple responsibilities, but continue to be outcome focused and capable of completing and delivering the solutions that GHX needs to grow and meet our customer expectations around uptime and availability.
Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership:
- Provide technical guidance to a team of software engineers, ensuring robust, scalable, and maintainable code bases.
- Drive design and implementation of microservices-based architectures, leveraging best practices for distributed systems.
- Lead initiatives to refactor and modernize legacy systems, including breaking down monolithic applications into modular, microservice-based solutions.
- Stay hands-on with coding and architecture reviews to maintain high technical standards.
- Team Management:
- Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
- Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance evaluations to ensure team success.
- Collaborate with the Development, Product, and Architecture teams
- Employ Agile development methodologies for software development activities
- Manage and coordinate technical dependencies with other teams
- Coordinate incident response for the team, including coverage and technical response to issue
- Strategic Contribution:
- Partner with the Director of Software Development to define technical strategy, roadmaps, and architectural vision.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Drive adoption of emerging technologies and practices to keep the team at the forefront of industry trends.
- Assess risks and dependencies and identify mitigation strategies
- Successfully identify core responsibilities for above areas, and prioritize those activities above other busywork or tasks that don’t align.
- CI/CD and Process Optimization:
- Champion the adoption and optimization of modern CI/CD pipelines to streamline development, testing, and deployment processes.
- Implement and maintain tools and practices for automated testing, infrastructure as code, and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain system reliability and performance.
- Plan and execute the timely release process for deliverables with all stakeholders including necessary communication
Qualifications:
- Education: Computer Science or related degree, or a combination of education and related experience.
- Experience:
- Engineering background, including ability to understand technical architecture and implementation at code level
- 8+ years of prior software development management experience.
- Hands-on experience breaking down monolithic applications into microservices or modular systems
- Deep understanding of modern CI/CD pipelines, including tools like Bamboo or GitHub Actions.
- Proficiency with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, etc) and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker).
- Experience with Agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban) and leading teams in a fast-paced environment.
Technical Skills:
- Familiarity with modern frameworks )e.g. Sprint Boot, Node.js)
- Proficiency with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, etc) and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker).
- Knowledge of observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) for monitoring and performance optimization.
- Experience with Angular JS, Angular 12+, Java 11+
Soft Skills:
- History of handling multiple concurrent projects
- Ability to effectively communicate across organizational levels and with a variety of stakeholders, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong strategic thinking that prioritizes long term outcomes over emergent distractions.
- Ability to make difficult decisions and to drive decisions into actuality
- Ability to understand and effectively explain up and downstream product, team, and organizational impacts
- Ability to constructively challenge the status quo and to iterate and improve across multiple business domains
- Leadership and mentoring skills including the ability to lead by example, promoting a common purpose and serving as a catalyst for success
- Demonstrate emotional maturity and a positive outlook.
- Demonstrated analytical, organizational, prioritization, and time management skills
Key Differentiator
- Being proactive. Hungry to build teams and deliver solutions that delight the customer
- Experience with distributed systems with complicated problem sets
- Data visualization experience
- Ability and willingness to travel to remote offices and partners, including international travel up to 4 weeks per year
Estimated Salary Range: $137,000 - $183,500 plus bonus
The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the GHX’s salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base salary is one component of GHX’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, accident and life insurance, 401k matching, paid-time off, and education reimbursement, to name a few. To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://www.ghx.com/about/careers/
GHX: It's the way you do business in healthcare
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.
GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe - who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.
It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Colorado, with additional offices in Europe.
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Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC and its North American subsidiaries (collectively, “GHX”) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable law. This EEO policy applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including hiring, training and development, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, educational assistance, termination, layoffs, social and recreational programs, and retirement.GHX believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each employee to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. GHX expects and requires the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere. Improper interference with the ability of GHX’s employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.
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What We Do
GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together more than 4,100 healthcare providers, and 600 manufacturers and distributors in North America — and another 1,500 providers and 350 suppliers in Europe — who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed, timely and fact-based decisions.
It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce – not shift – the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year.
Why Work With Us
At GHX we’re a hardworking innovative team, championing new technologies that boldly advance the healthcare supply chain. Our inspiration? To enable better patient care and deliver big cost savings. The work of our diverse team of talented and dedicated professionals impacts healthcare for the better every single day.
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