Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Establish, implement, and drive the strategic technical direction of the Health Data Platform Features team by translating business goals into a coherent technical roadmap focused on scalability, reliability, and engineering excellence.
- Partner directly with cross-functional leaders to communicate tradeoffs, set engineering priorities, and report on progress.
- Ensure the engineering team is effectively assigned to development work with a focus on quality, efficiency, and operational excellence.
- Quality Engineering Leadership
- Establish and drive the quality engineering strategy for the Health Data Platform, including automated testing, performance testing, and continuous quality improvement practices.
- Implement scalable QA processes, tools, and frameworks to ensure that all releases meet reliability, security, and compliance expectations.
- Partner with engineering leads to embed quality gates, testing standards, and defect-prevention practices throughout the SDLC.
- Oversee test planning, automated test coverage goals, defect management processes, and post-release quality metrics.
- Ensure tight alignment between development and quality engineering teams to reduce defects, improve release confidence, and accelerate delivery velocity.
- Lead and maintain full accountability for the Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with internal standards and external regulatory or audit requirements.
- Own QMS governance, documentation, processes, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure high-quality, audit-ready engineering practices.
- Champion a culture of engineering rigor, code quality, and continuous improvement.
- Engineering & Execution Oversight
- Manage day-to-day engineering priorities and establish best practices that drive consistent delivery, maintain technical quality, and support organizational goals.
- Ensure accurate tracking of hours for billing purposes and monitor utilization to meet organizational expectations.
- Develop and maintain team KPIs and metrics, providing reporting to management to support decision-making and accountability.
- Build strong partnerships with cross-functional teams across HDP and the broader organization (HR, finance, sales, marketing, etc.).
- Ensure timely completion of performance reviews with clearly defined goals, competencies, and development plans.
- Mentor, coach, and support team members to foster high performance and professional growth.
- Promote a positive team culture grounded in respect, professionalism, and engineering excellence.
Requirement
- 5+ years in technical program leadership or engineering management, ideally rooted in a software engineering background.
- 5+ years leading high-performing software development and/or quality engineering teams.
- Strong SDLC expertise; background in healthcare IT or high-growth tech is preferred.
- Deep understanding of modern engineering practices, cloud technologies, DevOps principles, test automation, and scalable architecture patterns.
- Ability to guide architectural decision-making and ensure technical and quality excellence across teams.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and retain top engineering and quality talent.
- Proven success managing executive stakeholders and driving alignment across cross-functional teams.
- Exceptional communication and negotiation skills, including the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Excellent administrative and operational management skills to ensure predictable delivery and high-quality outcomes.
- Experience with HL7, FHIR, and/or Healthtech is a strong plus.
Top Skills
What We Do
Smile Digital Health (doing business as Smile CDR Inc.) specializes in delivering fast, secure, compliant data infrastructures as a service to enable and empower interconnectivity for data-intensive sectors such as healthcare. We are a solutions platform helping organizations like governments, researchers, health systems, healthcare providers, and app developers build connected health solutions and products by leveraging our core expertise in health data and HL7 FHIR.
Our flagship product, Smile CDR, is the world’s first FHIR-based clinical data repository (CDR) as a service. Smile CDR is a high performance and secure solution built on the principles of Privacy by Design. Flexibility is a hallmark of the service as it can be hosted in the cloud or on-premises depending on your needs. The design was strongly influenced by real-world experience in both the jurisdictional and organizational setting. Smile CDR provides a rich set of features and capabilities including:
-Multiple FHIR versions
-FHIR Profiles
-Full text indexing of clinical records
-Type ahead search functionality
-FHIR, HL7v2 and custom ETL for data input
-Federated identity and identity provider functionality
-International character locale support
-Terminology services
-Auditing
-Smart on FHIR support
-Rapid deployment
-Extensive administrative tooling
Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in building enterprise-class systems, our team includes experts in building integrated healthcare systems including FHIR-based solutions such as HAPI, e-prescriptions and other e-health solutions. We were motivated by the need to improve upon existing options for sharing health data within and across organizations.
Smile CDR is the maintainer of HAPI FHIR, the prevailing open source reference implementation of FHIR worldwide
