Associate Director, Software Engineering

La Jolla, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 206000 - 309000

Posted on: 19 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Help us change lives

At Exact Sciences were helpingchange how the world prevents detects and guides treatment for cancer. We give patients and clinicians the clarity needed to make confident decisions when they matter most. Join our team to find a purpose-driven career an inclusive culture and robust benefits to support your life while youre working to help others.

Position Overview

At Exact Sciences our mission is to eradicate cancer through prevention early detection and guiding personalized treatment. The Associate Director of Software Engineering will drive the strategy architecture and delivery of our next-generation laboratory information systems (LIS). This role demands a proven leader who can blend deep technical and clinical lab domain expertise with a people-first leadership style fostering an empowered product-driven engineering culture. You will partner closely with Product Scientific and other IT specializations to deliver secure scalable and flexible solutions that provide measurable business and patient value.

Essential Duties

include but are not limited to the following:

Raise capabilities in the engineering team; including but not limited to developing coding testing and deployment protocols and best practices.
Maintain strong relationships and transparency with key stakeholders (Lab Sales Support Customers and Affiliates).
Partner with business and technology teams to prioritize roadmaps requirements balance business need with capacity and technology constraints.
Influence senior engineering and business leaders to drive increased capability though engineering processes and technologies.
Work with business stakeholders and engineering teams to design innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by the Company.
Supervise staff; including but not limited to organize and prioritize work write/conduct performance reviews train/develop and manage work performance.
Communicategoals clearly to employees to ensure understanding and success in achieving them.
Motivateandinspireemployees to do their best work through coaching.
Maintainmorale and support employee engagement initiatives.
Ability to apply good process management negotiating influencing and problem resolution skills.
Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
Excellent project communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to execute project delivery to client satisfaction on time on budget with quality.
Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy-to-understand business terms.
Ability to accomplish results through others particularly by establishing relationships effective controls and leading in a managed service environment.
Ability to drive continuous improvements in organizational performance and efficiency and career development for employees.
Uphold company mission and values through accountability innovation integrity quality and teamwork.
Support and comply with the companys Quality Management System policies and procedures.
Regular and reliable attendance.
Ability to lift up to 10 pounds for approximately 5% of a typical working day.
Ability to work on a mobile device tablet or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day.
Ability and means to travel between Exact Sciences locations.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or a field related to the essential duties of the job; or High School Degree/General Education Diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelors degree.
10 years of experience in Information Technology with increasing responsibility and advancing technical skills.
5 years of experience leading or directing people and/or project teams.
Strong proficiency of object-oriented service-oriented architecture micro-service architecture and programming principals.
Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in country where work will be performed on a full or part-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

Preferred Qualifications

Deep expertise in building high-throughput production clinical lab systems (LIS/LIMS) with a formal Quality Management System in mind.
Demonstrated success managing and developing large technical teams while also fostering a culture of accountability collaboration continuous improvement and technical excellence.
Hand-on experience with event-driven architectures microservices cloud engineering and DevOps at enterprise scale.
Expertise in Java Spring/Spring Boot Kafka web technologies Kubernetes RDBMS AWS etc.
Advanced proficiency in modern management platforms such as Git Jira LinearB etc.
Experience working in a regulated environment (SOX HIPAA CAP CLIA GCP FDA ISO-13485 and/or IEC-62304).
Demonstrated understanding of the Clinical Lab environment.

Salary Range:

$206000 - $309000

The annual base salary shown is for this position located in US - CA - San Diego on a full-time basis and may differ by hiring addition this position is bonus eligible.

Exact Sciences is proud to offer an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation holidays volunteering and personal time) paid leave for parents and caregivers a retirement savings plan wellness support and health benefits including medical prescription drug dental and vision coverage. Learn more about our benefits.

Our success relies on the experiences and perspectives of a diverse team and Exact Sciences fosters a culture where all employees can develop personally and professionally with a sense of respect and belonging. If you require an accommodation please contact us here.

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Help us change livesAt Exact Sciences were helpingchange how the world prevents detects and guides treatment for cancer. We give patients and clinicians the clarity needed to make confident decisions when they matter most. Join our team to find a purpose-driven career an inclusive culture and robust...