Director, Development

Health Stream is the leader in healthcare workforce solutions. We help organizations work better by helping their people work smarter, delivering leading learning, clinical development, credentialing, and scheduling applications on healthcare’s #1 platform.

At Health Stream, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the future of healthcare by collaborating with a team of talented professionals dedicated to innovation and excellence. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment where creativity and collaboration thrive.

This is a management and technical position. In addition to management responsibilities, a Director of Development will serve as the technical lead of the Continuing Medical Education (CME) product development group. The group manages three distinct healthcare software products:
Cloud

CME, Rievent, and eeds, which together enable healthcare organizations to manage the full lifecycle of continuing medical education.

You will be responsible for adhering to all Health Stream security policies, procedures, and assigned training.

• Provide technical leadership including consensus building and architectural decisions for software development teams
• Lead the technical design process for Health Stream applications and enhancements
• Coordinate technical projects with other technical disciplines within Health Stream IT
• Ensure software development teams adhere to Health Stream standards, processes, and best practices for software development and support efforts to define and update department policies
• Oversee the recruiting and hiring of software developers
• Mentor, support and retain junior managers and software developers
• Evaluate the performance of junior managers and software developers
• Support efforts to allocate software development personnel among projects
• Work with managers and software developers to establish and achieve career development goals for scoped reporting structure
• Ensure teams within purview consistently use AI productivity tooling to enhance delivery and quality

• Oversee and support the delivery and deployment of software releases to pre-production and production environments
• Define, organize and provide ongoing support for software applications in pre-production and production environments
• Coordinate rapid response and resolution for high-priority software application defects and operational issues
• Provide input to senior management on budgetary and organizational concerns
• Lead investigation, diagnosis, and mitigation of software application failures and defects

• Work with business stakeholders to refine and inform the requirements for software application features and enhancements
• Communicate technical design details and provide clear guidance and complexity estimates for proposed software applications, features, and enhancements
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance on key focus areas and appropriate strategies for testing software application features, enhancements, and defect fixes
• Continuously consult and collaborate with architects, software developers, QA analysts and others on technical design, practices and emerging technologies

• At least 6 years of experience in software development
• At least 4 years of experience as a development leader providing oversight of development teams
• Demonstrated success in management and growth of direct reports
• Experience working with agile development processes;
  Agile SCRUM experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science preferred; commensurate experience or advanced industry technical certification also considered
• Experience managing third‑party software vendors and contractors, and successful management of contract or offshore development resources
• In‑depth knowledge of Dev Sec Ops  and CI/CD practices
• Working experience with Salesforce platform development, database design, and complex data models;
  Salesforce certification preferred
• Experience in healthcare technology; familiarity with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7, HIPAA) preferred
• Experience…