Senior Manager R&D

Stryker is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the development and support of the SmartCare platform including cloud services web applications and mobile solutions. This leader will combine strong technical expertise with proven people leadership to deliver high-quality software drive engineering excellence and advance adoption of AI-enabled development practices within a regulated healthcare environment.

What You Will Do:

Leadership & Delivery

• Build mentor and lead a high-performing software engineering team responsible for SmartCare products and legacy clinical workflow solutions.

• Drive execution across the software development lifecycle from architecture and development through release and operational support.

• Define team strategy priorities staffing plans and delivery objectives aligned with business goals.

Product & Technical Leadership

• Partner with Product Management UX Support Customer Excellence Escalations and DevOps to deliver customer-focused solutions.

• Shape product and technology roadmaps across cloud web and mobile platforms.

• Lead technical discussions and architectural decisions that improve scalability reliability security and maintainability.

Quality & Customer Success

• Ensure reliable secure and high-quality product releases across cloud and mobile platforms.

• Drive application performance availability usability and security.

What You Will Need:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field required
• 10 years of software engineering experience with 5 years of engineering leadership and people management experience.
• Proven experience leading distributed teams delivering cloud mobile and SaaS products at scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) container technologies (Docker Kubernetes) and event-driven architectures (Kafka)
• Understanding of mobile architecture CI/CD release management app store deployment and mobile security best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on development experience with Java Kotlin Swift or similar modern programming languages.
• Experience delivering enterprise mobile applications for iOS and Android; knowledge of React Native or Flutter.
• Familiarity with emerging AI technologies including RAG prompt engineering evaluation frameworks and secure deployment of AI-enabled applications.