Vice President, Software Engineering, AI Transformation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +43 more states.

📋 Description

• Lead, develop, and expand a high-performing software engineering organization responsible for product delivery, technological advancement, security, reliability, and operational outcomes.

• Enhance delivery predictability, developer productivity, software quality, resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency.

• Collaborate with executive leadership, product management, operations, and security to align business strategy with technology priorities and investment decisions.

• Establish metrics and KPIs to measure strategic progress, engineering effectiveness, AI adoption, and business impact.

• Assess emerging technologies and identify opportunities for innovation.

• Provide guidance to executive leadership on technology and AI opportunities, risks, and industry trends.

• Implement MEDHOST’s AI-first transformation strategy across products, software engineering, and AI-DLC.

• Advance the R&D department’s AI-DLC strategy to enhance engineering and process efficiencies.

• Propel AI-driven experiences in customer-facing products and enterprise workflows.

• Oversee planning, execution, governance, risks, dependencies, and resource allocation for strategic technology and AI initiatives.

• Remain updated on models, agent orchestration, best practices, and emerging technologies.

• Implement and refine MEDHOST’s technology strategy and architecture roadmap.

• Lead the modernization of legacy applications, cloud platforms, APIs, and AI capabilities.

• Govern technology standards and investment priorities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Over 15 years of progressive technology experience, including more than 8 years of leadership in software engineering and at least 5 years in senior leadership roles managing large software engineering teams.

• 3-5+ years of experience in EHR and healthcare software environments.

• Proven track record in leading modernization and software platform transformation initiatives.

• In-depth expertise in modern software engineering practices, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, and enterprise architecture.

• Demonstrated experience in implementing AI and machine learning capabilities within enterprise products and AI-DLC workflows.

• Strong grasp of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI frameworks, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), AI orchestration, and AI governance.

• Experience in highly regulated industries with a strong understanding of complex security, privacy, and compliance requirements.

• Familiarity with Claude, OpenAI technologies, Microsoft Co-Pilot, and AWS Bedrock is a plus.

• Strong financial acumen with experience in managing technology investment portfolios and developing business cases.

• Proven ability to build and scale high-performance engineering organizations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Numerous opportunities for career advancement.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, short-term disability (STD), long-term disability (LTD), and flexible spending account (FSA) benefits.

• Three weeks of vacation plus five personal days for relaxation.

• Employee stock ownership and RRSP program.

• 401K and life insurance benefits.

• Opportunities to contribute to community involvement.

• Flexible work arrangements tailored to your lifestyle.