Senior Director Of Software Engineering

Job Title- Senior Director Engineering

Experience-15+ Years

Location-Chennai

Work mode-On site

Domain: Only from Healthcare domain and who comes with Payer experience

Healthcare Engineering

Role Overview

We are looking for a Healthcare Engineering Lead who can take ownership of delivering high-impact solutions for our global healthcare clients. This role requires a strong technology backbone, sound understanding of healthcare platforms (payer, provider, clinical, pharma, life sciences), and the maturity to lead engineering teams while interfacing with customers and internal stakeholders.

This is a leadership role not just managing delivery, but influencing outcomes, simplifying execution, and ensuring predictable results.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Leadership

• Lead end-to-end delivery for healthcare engineering engagements (product development, modernization, cloud, and data initiatives).
• Build delivery plans, sprint strategies, estimation, effort/budget planning, and risk management.
• Ensure engineering and delivery excellence zero-surprise delivery approach.
• Drive adoption of best-practice engineering principles (CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation, quality gates).

Customer & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a primary point of contact for client leadership (Directors / VPs / Product Owners).
• Translate business requirements into technical outcomes with clear documentation.
• Proactively communicate progress, risks, and mitigation plans to customers.

Team Leadership

• Guide engineers across backend, frontend, integration, and QA teams.
• Drive performance coaching, continuous skill upliftment, and career development.
• Maintain team discipline, cadence, and engineering hygiene.

Healthcare Domain & Compliance Awareness

• Work closely with solutioning / architecture teams to align delivery with healthcare compliance needs (HIPAA, HL7/FHIR, interoperability).
• Understand customers business flows eligibility, claims, EHR workflows, patient/member journeys.

Required Skills

• 15+ years of total experience with at least 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on background in Java / .NET / Python along with experience in:
• Microservices, API integration
• Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• Data engineering exposure (preferred)
• Proven ability to run delivery in Agile/Scrum and manage sprint ceremonies.
• Experience working with onsiteoffshore models.
• Experience of Java, Python, AWS is must.

Good to Have

• Experience in building healthcare products or platforms.
• Familiarity with:
• FHIR / HL7 / EDI / Claims processing / RCM workflows / EMREHR integrations.
• Exposure to AI/ML use cases in healthcare data.

Cultural Expectations

Were looking for someone who:

• Communicates clearly and concisely no jargon overload, crisp status and action items.
• Is mature, assertive and takes ownership without being pushed.
• Balances customer empathy with delivery rigor Say yes, but manage expectations.
• Works well with cross-functional teams Solutioning, TA, Finance, HR.
• Is grounded, practical, and has roll-up-your-sleeves mindset.