Executive Director, Software Engineering

Company: Providence Health & Services
Location: Redmond
Posted on: July 1, 2025

Job Description:

Are you a visionary software engineering leader with a knack for innovation and a passion for transforming healthcare? Do you excel at delivering top-notch solutions while navigating intricate technical challenges? If so, we have an exhilarating opportunity for you! The Role: As the Executive Director, Software Engineering, you will be at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare delivery. Your role encompasses the full spectrum of developing and ensuring the quality of solutions and services that not only bring joy to caregivers but also add strategic value to our organization. From assessing requirements and estimating costs to designing and implementing cutting-edge solutions, youll set and uphold quality benchmarks using metrics and insights to enhance caregiver experiences. Your role also involves optimizing the engineering process, managing risks and dependencies, and integrating software into broader ecosystems. What Youll Do: Innovation Leader: Take charge of software solutions, architecture strategy, design, and engineering deliverables within our supported portfolio. Technical Visionary: Lead the team in creating technical solutions that deliver expected value to partners and align with PSJHs strategic goals, ensuring iterative designs are primed for successive releases. Market Trend Expert: Stay ahead of industry shifts, advising business leaders on emerging solutions, and crafting technical solutions that excel in the marketplace. Strategic Guide: Develop conceptual models for future solutions incorporating market, technology, and business trends, advising leaders on capabilities and technologies for future visions. Cross-Service Planner: Utilize a cross-service perspective to plan and design technical solutions, defining software, tools, cloud services, processes, role assignments, dependencies, and documentation to deliver high-performance, resilient services. Quality Advocate: Foster a culture of quality within the Engineering teams, ensuring that standards align with service objectives. Testing Architect: Lead engineers in designing solutions for unit, integrated, load/perf, and security testing, achieving quality KPIs. Data Guru: Leverage profound data expertise to source, connect, and describe its impact, ensuring solutions enhance the caregiver experience. Agile Leader: Prioritize work across teams, enabling agility and quick priority shifts, fostering a dynamic and responsive environment. Lifecycle Optimizer: Transform engineering lifecycles to achieve system improvements that drive caregiver and business objectives. Collaborative Innovator: Drive innovative thinking across the division, enhancing quality, engineering solutions, and responsiveness to feedback. Team Builder: Build diverse and inclusive teams that engage effectively, focusing on hiring, talent development, and performance management. Strategic Communicator: Effectively convey business strategy and goals, align team efforts, maintain energy through changing priorities, and collaborate with peers to achieve global caregiver representation. What Youll Bring: Education: Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical fields or equivalent education/experience. (Masters preferred) Experience: 10 years of related experience, with extensive experience leading technical teams in complex, fast-paced environments (healthcare experience preferred). 5 years of recent extensive ServiceNow experience strongly preferred. Data-Driven Insight: Strong capability in leveraging data and metrics to drive decisions across the team and IS. Relationship Builder: Proven ability to establish positive relationships with colleagues, customers, and executive leadership, aligning cross-functionally. Expert Practitioner: Expertise in software engineering best practices, with hands-on experience and the ability to mentor others. Leadership Catalyst: Demonstrated ability to contribute as a key member of a high-performing executive leadership team, driving consistent change and leadership. Independent Achiever: Proven capability to perform autonomously, lead and grow technical teams, and cultivate future technical and management leaders. Master Organizer: Ability to prioritize responsibilities and manage workloads to meet deadlines and ensure successful project completion. Strategic Decision-Maker: Ability to make trade-offs between quality, time, scope, and resources, maximizing value for PSJH. Why Join Us? Transformative Impact: Be part of an organization redefining healthcare and enhancing lives. Innovation Empowerment: Experience the autonomy and support to bring your innovative ideas to life. Dynamic Collaboration: Collaborate with dedicated professionals passionate about driving change. Thriving Environment: Embrace the challenges and rewards of working in a dynamic and evolving industry. Inclusive Culture: Engage in a diverse and inclusive environment that values every perspective. Ready to Innovate Healthcare? If youre a visionary software engineer eager to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply and join our team in shaping a healthier future for all! At Providence we believe in the importance of human connection and the impact of in-person collaboration towards team cohesion and caregiver engagement. Further, we want our leaders to live in or near the communities we serve. Therefore, leaders applying for this role will be required to work a hybrid schedule, which consists of three days onsite, two days remote and live within a reasonable commuting distance to the ministry or service area they support and lead. About Providence At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable. Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. About the Team Providence Shared Services is a service line within Providence that provides a variety of functional and system support services for our family of organizations across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. We are focused on supporting our Mission by delivering a robust foundation of services and sharing of specialized expertise. Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement. Pay Range: $ 85.56 - $ 152.95 The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

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