Director, Engineering

Overview

Position at WebMD

WebMD is the most recognized and trusted brand of health information and the leading provider of health information services, serving consumers, physicians, healthcare professionals, employers and health plans through our public and private online portals and WebMD the Magazine. The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD, Medscape, Medicine Net, eMedicine, RxList, theheart.org and Medscape Education. Our consumer portals and mobile health applications provide engaging, relevant and credible health and wellness information, personalized health assessment tools and access to online communities.

WebMD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion, sex, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.

• Oversees people leadership for their Engineering teams, with a focus on executing on strategy and allocating resources to maximize performance.
• Responsible for managing performance, developing talent, and creating succession plans within their team(s) for long-term team success
• Manages performance, has authority to hire and terminate employees, and makes compensation recommendations for managers, supervisors, and/or individual contributors
• Lead data preparation and transformation teams using in-depth knowledge of databases & healthcare domains
• Ability to lead complex software development projects
• Oversees and/or participates in critical cross-functional initiatives related to data management and data analysis
• Develops, designs, and maintains standards, procedures, and processes for improving the accuracy and depth of company data
• Actively contributes to team leadership level efforts to improve scale and operational excellence across their area of Engineering
• Lead engineering teams using in-depth knowledge of APIs, databases, and other engineering systems in the healthcare domain
• Possess high levels of skill in relevant engineering disciplines and technologies to make design and implementation decisions for complex software projects
• Ability to lead large and complex software development projects simultaneously
• Oversees and/or participates in critical cross-functional initiatives related to application engineering, data analysis, and integration
• Develops, designs, specifies, and maintains standards, procedures, frameworks, and processes for improving the accuracy and depth of company data
• Actively contributes to team leadership level efforts to improve scale and operational excellence across their area of Engineering
• Designs, implements, and maintains quality control standards for collection and maintenance of data and development and implementation of accuracy and performance metrics
• Collaborates with stakeholders and provides subject matter expertise on implementation, use, and compliance of data
• Evangelize best practices and engineering principles among their Engineering teams
• Prepares for and participates in audits and other process compliance activities, and performs gap analysis to identify where data engineering operations are not being optimized
• Develops and leads short and long-term plans for implementing and managing operational improvements for their teams in alignment with department goals and strategy

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 12 + years if software Development
• Ability to lead complex software development projects
• Provide direction for one or more Engineering teams simultaneously
• Provide key inputs and participation in department planning to meet company goals
• Competence with modern front-end development technologies (Angular, React, Vue, Gatsby, etc.).
• Competence with modern API development technologies (Node, Spring, Java, Graph
  
  QL, etc.)
• Proficiency with distributed processing (Lambda, Elastic Search, etc.)
• AWS experience is preferred.
• Experience in engineering solutions for large scale, highly available and mission-critical application systems.
• Experience in healthcare enterprise engineering is preferred.
• Experience designing and supporting software applications and understanding of the entire application development life cycle.
• Ability to establish engineering practices and train teams in following them.
• Experience scrubbing/masking sensitive data in non-Production database environments is a plus.
• Knowledge of application security best practices and hardening enterprise applications to secure against malicious users.
• Exposure and working knowledge of reporting, business intelligence and data wrangling tools
• Proficiency with developing web browser applications and mobile applications.
• Ability to assess and address data quality concerns
• Ability to translate data findings into actionable recommendations and process improvements
• Ability to comply with and enforce company data management policies and standards
• Ability to review workload,…