Über diese Engineering Team Lead Stelle bei Vizient
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Summary:
In this role, you will lead an engineering team responsible for designing, delivering, and operating scalable, high-quality software solutions that support critical business capabilities and customer experiences. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people leadership, ensuring strong engineering practices while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
You will partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, Security, Operations, and Delivery teams to align technical execution with business strategy, drive modernization initiatives, and ensure operational excellence. This role requires strong technical judgment, the ability to lead through ambiguity, and a passion for building resilient, secure, and scalable platforms.
The ideal candidate combines engineering leadership, software delivery expertise, and a systems-thinking mindset to guide teams through complex technical challenges while continuously improving engineering effectiveness, quality, and reliability. You will also champion the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, automation, and emerging technologies to improve delivery outcomes and engineering productivity.
Responsibilities:
- Support vendor and partner engineering teams by providing technical oversight, governance, and accountability where appropriate.
- Lead the design, architecture, development, and operation of scalable, high-performance software solutions.
- Guide engineering teams through complex technical challenges and ensure sound architectural and engineering decisions.
- Contribute to the codebase as needed, delivering efficient, maintainable, secure, and well-tested solutions.
- Establish and reinforce engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and operational readiness.
- Partner with Product Managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to understand priorities and translate them into actionable technical plans.
- Identify technical, operational, and delivery risks and proactively develop mitigation strategies.
- Lead technical planning efforts, estimation activities, and roadmap execution.
- Drive modernization initiatives including cloud adoption, platform scalability, automation, and technical debt reduction.
- Foster a healthy, collaborative, and inclusive team environment that supports engagement, accountability, and high performance.
- Promote a culture of ownership, continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence.
- Collaborate with architecture, security, cloud operations, and platform teams to ensure consistency and alignment across solutions.
- Drive operational excellence through improved monitoring, alerting, incident management, resiliency, and disaster recovery practices.
- Review and validate technical designs, implementation approaches, and architectural decisions to ensure long-term maintainability and scalability.
- Advocate for and support adoption of AI-assisted development, testing, documentation, and automation tools.
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery velocity, engineering quality, operational efficiency, and developer experience through emerging technologies and automation.
- Communicate technical strategy, project status, progress, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders and leadership.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience.
- 8 or more years of software engineering experience required.
- 3 or more years of experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineering teams required.
- Strong experience with modern software development practices including CI/CD, automated testing, DevSecOps, and application security required.
- Experience designing and delivering scalable distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and cloud-native applications required.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, JavaScript, or TypeScript required.
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP required.
- Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, messaging systems, and enterprise integrations preferred.
- Strong understanding of architectural patterns, system design, scalability, resilience, and performance optimization required.
- Demonstrated experience leading modernization initiatives, reducing technical debt, and improving platform sustainability preferred.
- Experience implementing observability, monitoring, logging, and operational support practices required.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills required.
- Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams required.
- Proven ability to communicate technical concepts and architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders required.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and develop future technical leaders preferred.
- Experience working with third-party vendors, outsourced engineering teams, or strategic delivery partners preferred.
- Familiarity with data platforms, analytics solutions, and distributed data processing technologies preferred.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools, automation platforms, machine learning workflows, or data-driven applications preferred.
- Passion for continuous improvement, innovation, and engineering excellence preferred.
- Health care supply chain experience a plus
Estimated Hiring Range:
At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $117,600.00 to $206,000.00.This position is also incentive eligible.
Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:
http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers
Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.
