Director of Software Engineering (Mobile App Development)

Tasks

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure the evolution of medical technology platforms, developing new functionalities to reinforce our positioning as the reference prescription decision support and clinical reference system for our physician users
• Managing the technology team and the development pipeline (corrective developments, evolutive developments, new functionalities/services)
• Manage external projects end-to-end (functional definition, RFPs, vendor selection, project management, deliverable control )
• Define and implement the company s technology strategy (technology architecture, opportunities from technology evolution, new services/businesses )
• Ensure the best UX/IU with an outstanding, intuitive design
• Actively propose service enhancements or new functionalities
• Automate key internal processes (QA/unit testing, business intelligence )
• Ensure the quality of management information, extracting maximum value to support business decisions and commercial projects (business intelligence, data mining)
• Close collaboration with other company units to achieve the company objectives
• Collaborate regularly with the CEO, COO, Commercial Director, Marketing/Operations Team Leader, and participating in key company decisions.
• Manage an internal team of 3 people and 4 external developers and the development projects associated with the team.

Requirements

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, Mathematics or similar.

• 3+ years of experience leading development teams

• Management of software development teams with agile methodologies (agile/scrum management): sprint definition, task definition, prioritization and follow-up (Jira), project documentation (Confluence), deliverable follow-up, management of daily/weekly agile meetings

• Management of external outsourced development projects: specification definition/RFPs, provider identification/selection, control of external development teams with agile methodologies, calendar and deliverable follow-up

• Functional project definition: facilitation of required discussions/meetings with business owners to define new projects (new developments, evolution of existing projects, corrective actions)

• Relevant knowledge (management level) of the key technologies, to be able to lead a team of specialists in each knowledge area (5+ years of experience in IT, ideally in different areas)

• Mobile app architecture and development (iOS, Android)

• Front and back-end systems: PHP/Drupal, JavaScript, SQL, web services

• Information security and privacy

• Stability, scalability, and performance management of virtual technology platforms (AWS)

• Unit testing /QA automation

• Business Intelligence/data mining solutions

• API/third-party solution integration

• IT architecture and technology strategy

• Relevant software engineering knowledge/experience (ideally, in the development of mobile apps), to be able to lead and occasionally support development teams

• Problem solving and high detail orientation

• Strategic technology vision, identification of business opportunities stemming from technology evolution

• Entrepreneurial mindset, ability to carry out responsibilities with minimal supervision

• Dedicated, motivated, work ethic, and results driven

• Ability to work in highly Dynamic multi-functional teams

• Continuous learning mindset

• Creativity, ability to think out of the box, continuously searching for improvement opportunities