Sr. Director, Software Engineering
About The Position
AdvancedMD is seeking a business-minded engineering leader to lead multiple scrum teams across a product line or several add-on modules. The role combines technical and business leadership, including co-owning the product line P&L, technical roadmap, and quality strategy. The Sr. Director will drive AI-native delivery and deploy AI features and agents to production with reliability, cost control, observability, and compliance. Working closely with Product, Design, DevOps, and executive stakeholders, this leader will balance delivery speed with quality and ensure disciplined AI adoption. The position also leads engineering managers and senior engineers, oversees quality engineering and automation, establishes metrics and operating standards, and reports status, risks, and outcomes to executives. AdvancedMD describes itself as a cloud healthcare software company serving medical practices, practitioners, and independent medical billing companies.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering.
- 6+ years leading managers and multi-team organizations.
- Experience owning or co-owning a P&L or product-line budget.
- Hands-on implementation of AIDLC or an AI-assisted SDLC at team scale.
- Experience with AI tooling such as Claude Code, Copilot, agent frameworks, or MCP.
- Track record deploying AI/LLM capabilities to production at scale.
- Strong quality engineering and test automation background.
- Vendor management and cost-of-revenue optimization experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Nice To Haves
- Healthcare IT, EHR, or regulated-industry experience.
- Advanced degree.
Responsibilities
- Co-own the product line P&L with Product, optimizing cost of revenue, technical debt, and architecture adherence.
- Own technical roadmap prioritization and act as product owner for technical initiatives.
- Define and report system-level and product-level success metrics.
- Lead AIDLC adoption across scrum teams, incorporating AI into planning, design, coding, review, testing, and release.
- Own AI tooling strategy, including coding assistants, agents, and MCP-based integrations.
- Govern AI use with guardrails for security, HIPAA/PHI compliance, and human-in-the-loop standards.
- Deploy AI features and agents to production and track AI unit economics, including cost to serve versus revenue.
- Own product-line quality engineering and automation strategy, including escape-defect targets, release planning, and readiness.
- Lead, mentor, and develop managers and senior engineers.
- Coordinate release planning and lead impact analysis across scrum teams.
- Develop department strategy, budgets, policies, and procedures.
- Institutionalize OKRs and a metrics-based culture.
- Run scrum-of-scrums as Single Initiative Leader for cross-team solutions.
- Own minimum operating standards for the product line.
- Manage cost-of-goods-sold vendor and partner relationships, including procurement.
- Report status, risks, and outcomes to executives on a fixed monthly cadence.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and total rewards benefits.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) with generous company match.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Hybrid and remote work opportunities.
- Career growth and development support.
- Collaborative, team-oriented culture.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
