Senior Manager, Software Development

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. Dev Ops 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.

• 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, work streams, and technology platforms.
• Support team maturity, leadership development, performance management, onboarding, retention, and succession planning.

• 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.

• 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 Dev Ops 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.

• Provide governance and oversight for embedded Dev Ops practices across development teams.
• Ensure team-level Dev Ops 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.

• 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,…