VP, Software Engineering
Exact Sciences Corporation
- Madison, WI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide vision, leadership, and direction for the software engineering organization to drive adoption of a product centric operating model.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders across business and technology to develop technology strategy and strategic plans.
- Define best in class technology architecture roadmaps to build scalable and intuitive solutions to integrate with Provider, Patients and Payors.
- Support and facilitate innovative and experimental software development to test new ideas, within bounded cost and time frames.
- Champion best practices and modern software development methods and tools.
- Lead software engineering teams and other stakeholders to set goals for improving code quality, maintainability, security, and scalability and monitor progress against these goals.
- Implement and manage software development status reporting, metrics, and benchmarks.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure & Operations as well as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to ensure optimal DevOps and secure code practices are operationalized.
- Develop workforce strategy to meet the organization’s current and future software engineering needs through developing, hiring, and/or sourcing talent.
- Manage software engineering talent, playing a key role in resource optimization, performance management and compensation processes, role and competency definition, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
- Manage employee engagement driving a strong inclusive culture and promote a compelling employee value proposition to retain and provide rewarding career paths for the software engineering staff.
- Oversee management of relationships with consultants, vendors, and contractors and support negotiation of statements of work and business terms with suppliers.
- Supervise staff; including, but not limited to, organize and prioritize work, write/conduct performance reviews, train/develop, and manage work performance.
- Communicate goals clearly to employees to ensure understanding and success in achieving them.
- Motivate and inspire employees to do their best work through coaching.
- Maintain morale and support employee engagement initiatives.
- Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
- Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
- Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
- Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
- Bachelor’s Degree in field as outlined in the essential duties; or High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) and 4 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties; or Associate’s Degree and 2 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties.
- 15+ years of experience in Software Engineering management within a rapid-growth environment.
- 15+ years of experience directly leading technical teams with progressing levels of responsibility.
- 10+ years of experience in large, cross-functional teams influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders effectively across the organization and within complex contexts.
- Expertise in budget planning and financial management; preferably with show-back and/or chargeback models.
- Background in Lab Information Systems, Epic EMR Integration preferred.
- Strong business acumen in supporting reference lab activities and ability to understand and drive business outcomes.
- Demonstrated leadership skills and experience leading geographically distributed teams of employee and contract workforce.
- Ability to build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships at all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
- Strong organizational skills, including an ability to perform under pressure and manage multiple priorities with competing demands for resources.
- Understanding of latest software development methodologies and best practices.
- Adaptability and ability to manage rapid change in business needs, processes, or technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
- Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.