VP Technology - Software Engineering

Would you like to help nursing and medical students achieve educational targets in professional growth?
 

Would you like to help clinicians and physicians make better decisions and deliver better patient care?
 

About our Team
 

Elsevier’s Nursing and Health Education offers a high growth portfolio through a set of comprehensive offerings across the student journey. We have taken our world-class medical content, digitized it, and made it actionable and accessible to students in diverse modalities including simulation and virtual technologies.
 

About the Role
 

Draw on your people and technical leadership skills delivering world-class enterprise scale software solutions from start-ups to large corporate environments. You will lead a large team (c.200 FTE) in the creation of complex software products at scale.
 

Responsibilities
 

• Recruiting, building, inspiring and retaining diverse high performing collaborative teams, and key contributors

• Providing external insights for the business and technology leadership teams to support strategic ambitions. Balancing the technology roadmap, stability, resiliency with commercial driven demands.

• Owning responsibility for full departmental budget and resource planning, as well as product development and delivery responsibility. Supporting c.$300M in revenue.

• Promoting and driving a culture of software engineering excellence. Being a highly collaborative and inclusive communicator.

• Driving effective operational change through process and organizational improvement

Requirements
 

• Demonstrate a highly technical metrics-driven skill-set

• Demonstrate refined interpersonal skills as well as deep commercial acumen

• Be a key contributor to both technical and business strategy

• Possess knowledge and practical experience in advanced analytics, particularly Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, leading edge visualization and engagement technologies

• Have experience developing and supporting innovative solutions at scale across a portfolio of solutions

• Demonstrate a proven ability to work in a highly matrixed organization

Work in a way that works for you
 

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
 

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you
 

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
 

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits

• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan

• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs

• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity

• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits

• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts

• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

About the Business
 

• A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

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