Director, Software Engineering - Platform Development

As the Platform Team Leader, you will provide leadership and direction to a team of adept architects and senior software engineers, fostering a culture of innovation while ensuring the robustness, scalability, and security of our technological solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team focused on advancing in-house software development, platform engineering, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Assess existing platform components and capabilities across the enterprise and define a phased roadmap to a modern digital platform - spanning API gateway, workflow orchestration, capability services, integration and event-driven architecture, fit-for-purpose data persistence and data warehouse integration.
• Explore and integrate AI and machine learning advancements to drive intelligent automation within our platform.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in technologies, actively seeking out opportunities to apply these insights to our platform.
• Lead by example in adopting and championing emerging technologies and development methodologies that can enhance our platform's performance, scalability, and security.
• Demonstrated practical expertise in Microsoft technologies such as .Net, MVC, web API, and React JS, coupled with hands-on experience in cloud platforms, particularly specializing in Microsoft Azure.

The Director, Software Engineering - Platform Development (DPD) will provide leadership in the areas of systems and application delivery, software design & architecture, and software development across client application deliverables and strategic initiatives. The DPD will be highly participatory and hands-on regarding the planning and implementation of Enterprise Platform Solutions and is responsible for establishing common delivery standards and measuring development practices to lead continuous improvement.

Specific Job Duties

• Leadership role in the technical design and implementation of software solutions.
• Participates in all aspects of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Collaborates with business segment software engineering teams in the design and implementation of reusable, scalable, and secure technical solutions for UBC and its clients.
• Establish standards and readiness gates for moving solutions from concept to POC, pilot and production.
• Create and improve workflows for CI/CD, unit testing, deployment, release management, documentation and operational support.
• Guide the responsible use of AI-assisted development efforts, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable and aligned to UBC standards.
• Partner with Information Security to review code quality, dependencies, library risks, data handling and secure deployment practices.
• Managing risk, escalations, and resource optimization across Agile delivery pipelines.
• Key member of the IT Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence.
• Responsible for resource management within the IT Platform Development team.

Desired Skills and Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related fields, or an equivalent combination of education & experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on software engineering and solutioning experience working in a technical environment & minimum of 5 years of people leadership experience.
• Must be detail orientated and able to take a job to successful conclusion.
• Must have excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written skills and able to perform multiple tasks.
• Ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical individuals.
• Must be flexible on work hours.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with all phases of an SDLC.
• In-depth knowledge of the software validation process in an FDA regulated environment. Specifically, knowledge of 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA and E2B requirements is essential.
• Excellent application documentation skills.
• Solid understanding of Agile software development principles.
• Structured Programming skills.
• Extensive working knowledge of the Microsoft .NET stack, including but not limited to Microsoft Visual Studio, TFS/Azure DevOps, C#, Web-Based Development Frameworks (such as ASP.NET, WebForms, MVC, Angular, Node.js) and Web Services/API development.
• Extensive working knowledge with Relational Database Management Systems, especially Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle.
• Working knowledge with team development software and automated testing tools.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Software Development Managers
• Software Architects
• Software Development Engineers