Software Development Manager

Software Development Manager

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers' toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role

The Software Development Manager will lead a team responsible for the design, delivery, and support of platform tooling, operational automation, developer productivity solutions, and AI-enabled support capabilities across Solventum's Data Fabric ecosystem. The role manages software engineers delivering shared capabilities that support the Catalyst FHIR Repository, Data Services, FHIR Station, Open Search, Data Lakehouse, and other strategic platform initiatives.

This leader will be responsible for team leadership, product ownership, backlog management, delivery execution, operational excellence, and platform support. They will collaborate closely with engineering, product, infrastructure, security, architecture, and operations teams to improve platform reliability, scalability, supportability, and user experience.

The position will drive innovation through automation, self-service capabilities, enterprise knowledge management, and AI-enabled support solutions while ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, security requirements, and regulatory expectations. The role will support cloud-native platform capabilities operating within healthcare and government-aligned environments and will play a key role in enabling future Data Fabric growth and operational maturity.

Excellent communicator, able to eliminate jargon when necessary, yet able to dive deep into technical details when working with development staff. You take quality very seriously and work to quantify and evaluate meaningful ways of measuring and reporting on quality. An avid learner and keep up to date with new technologies and evaluate impact to the organization. You are adept at attracting talent and building high performance teams that deliver high quality solutions.

This role also supports platform capabilities operating within regulated cloud environments, including Gov Cloud and GovRAMP-aligned deployments.

Your Skills and Expertise To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher AND Seven (7)+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, software development, or technical product development experience building enterprise-scale applications
• OR
• High School Diploma/GED AND Fourteen (14) years of software engineering, platform engineering, software development, or technical product development experience building enterprise-scale applications

In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required:

• 3+ years of experience leading technical teams, software delivery programs, or engineering initiatives.
• 3+ years of experience working with cloud-native applications, APIs, distributed systems, and modern software architecture.
• 3+ years of experience operating within Agile software development methodologies.
• 3+ years of experience supporting, developing, or integrating enterprise platforms, operational tooling, or developer enablement solutions.
• 1+ year of experience with AI-enabled technologies, intelligent automation, Generative AI, AI-assisted development tools, or related technologies.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Healthcare interoperability standards and healthcare data platforms, including FHIR.
• Regulated cloud environments and compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP, Gov Cloud, GovRAMP, StateRAMP, DoD, or VA programs.
• Cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and large-scale enterprise applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Platform engineering, developer experience (DX), operational tooling, and support engineering organizations.
• Enterprise search and knowledge management technologies, including Open Search, Elasticsearch, semantic search, and information retrieval systems.
• Event-driven architectures and modern integration technologies, such as Apache Kafka.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud automation, and Dev Ops practices.
• Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI-assisted development tools, and intelligent automation platforms.
• AI-powered support solutions, virtual assistants, self-service platforms, and operational automation.
• Responsible AI, AI governance, AI…