Senior Manager, Software Development

Description

IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF YOUR CAREER AT ZYNX HEALTH

Zynx Health part of the Hearst Health Network is seeking a Senior Manager Software Development to lead software engineering execution across multiple development teams. This role directly manages Software Development Leads and is accountable for software delivery engineering quality release readiness development practices resource planning and cross-team coordination.

This leader provides organizational leadership standards governance coaching and delivery oversight across teams. DevOps resources are embedded within individual development teams and managed by the respective Software Development Leads; this role provides the cross-team standards governance and oversight that keep engineering practices aligned.

This is an opportunity for a people-focused delivery-oriented engineering leader to strengthen engineering consistency improve development practices mature release readiness reduce technical debt and support responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Software Engineering Leadership

• Lead the overall software engineering organization through Software Development Leads.
• Manage coach and develop Software Development Leads setting clear priorities ownership delivery expectations and accountability.
• Provide leadership across multiple software development teams workstreams and technology platforms.
• Support team maturity leadership development performance management onboarding retention and succession planning.

Delivery Execution and Cross-Team Coordination

• Own software delivery execution sprint and release readiness quality practices resource planning and cross-team dependency management.
• Translate product and technology priorities into clear team plans delivery expectations milestones and execution priorities.
• Identify and communicate delivery risks blockers dependencies staffing needs operational concerns and recommended actions.
• Partner with product management architecture data platforms security compliance QA and business stakeholders to align delivery execution with business and technology priorities.

Engineering Standards and Development Practices

• Establish and reinforce consistent engineering standards across teams including maintainable design code quality documentation testing code review release readiness and operational readiness.
• Ensure Software Development Leads apply consistent development CI/CD operational support and team-level DevOps practices within their teams.
• Promote reusable patterns responsible modernization automation and technical-debt reduction while balancing speed quality security and reliability.
• Define and monitor engineering metrics related to delivery predictability quality release readiness operational health and team effectiveness.

Embedded DevOps and Operational Readiness

• Provide governance and oversight for embedded DevOps practices across development teams.
• Ensure team-level DevOps execution aligns with organization-wide standards for CI/CD deployment automation observability incident response and operational support.
• Partner closely with the Senior Manager Data Platforms & Architecture and the Senior Manager Security & Compliance on platform infrastructure architecture security compliance and operational initiatives.
• Support continuous improvement in release processes deployment reliability observability and production support practices.

AI-Assisted Engineering and Continuous Improvement

• Establish expectations for responsible use of AI-assisted coding and engineering tools.
• Ensure AI-generated code scripts documentation tests automation and technical recommendations are reviewed for quality security maintainability and appropriateness.
• Encourage practical use of AI-assisted tools to improve productivity troubleshooting documentation testing refactoring and delivery efficiency.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement engineering accountability and thoughtful innovation.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 8 years of experience in software development software engineering leadership application development DevOps platform engineering or related technology roles.
• 3 years of experience leading or managing software development teams technical leads engineering leads or cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience managing software delivery across multiple teams workstreams or product delivery areas.
• Experience leading through technical leads team leads or first-line engineering leaders.
• Strong people leadership coaching mentoring performance management communication and team-development skills.
• Strong understanding of modern software development lifecycle practices CI/CD DevOps principles cloud-native platforms secure software delivery and operational readiness.
• Ability to translate product and technology priorities into clear team plans execution priorities and measurable delivery outcomes.
• Experience partnering with architecture security compliance QA product management data platforms and business stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of relevant technologies such as Java Groovy Spring Boot Svelte SvelteKit TypeScript Vite Core C# MarkLogic Redis OpenShift Kubernetes Docker GitLab CI/CD Tekton Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Keycloak OAuth2/OIDC JWT or related tools.
• Bachelors degree preferred or equivalent practical experience.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience in healthcare clinical content regulated software compliance-driven environments or enterprise SaaS.
• Experience leading distributed or remote software engineering teams.
• Experience improving engineering standards release-readiness practices CI/CD consistency or operational support models across multiple teams.
• Experience guiding responsible adoption of AI-assisted coding or engineering productivity tools.
• Familiarity with embedded DevOps models platform engineering partnerships or shared engineering-practice governance.

About Zynx Health

Zynx Health a part of Hearst Health is a market leader in providing evidence-based clinical decision support solutions that help healthcare organizations measurably improve patient outcomes enhance safety and lower costs.

Thousands of hospital organizations and providers rely on Zynx Healths rigorously developed and maintained evidence-based clinical content patented technology and tailored services to drive clinical improvements at the point of care. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day for every patient every time.

Zynx Health seeks to hire and train employees who uphold and mirror our core values of Bold Innovation Passion Integrity Respect and Excellence. To learn more visit .

Zynx Health offers competitive salary and extensive benefits - including medical dental vision short and long term disability life insurance and matching 401k.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability or protected military and veteran status.

In accordance with applicable law Zynx is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role where required. The reasonable estimate for this role in Dallas Texas is $160000 - $180000. If this role is open to candidates outside of that location the salary range would be aligned to that specific location. A final decision on the successful candidates starting salary will be based on a number of permissible non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to skills and experience training certifications and education.

This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes medical dental vision life and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending savings account; paid holidays; paid time off; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

Required Experience:

Senior Manager