Senior Director Software Engineering

Senior Director Software Engineering Job Locations US-Remote ID 2026-19944 Category Engineering/IT Position Type Full-Time Overview We are a Healthcare Data Analytics company looking for Senior Director, Software Engineering within our Payment business. In this role you will lead, direct, and manage the cross-functional technology delivery team. You will manage all the operational aspects of the software development to ensure business and project objectives are met. You will provide technical, administrative, and people leadership for multiple, diverse, and geographically distributed teams. You will champion an AI-native approach to software delivery by integrating AI tools, automation, and intelligent engineering workflows across the software development lifecycle to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and increase engineering effectiveness. You will partner closely with product management, enterprise data management, IT, and business stakeholders to align technology delivery with business priorities while meeting healthcare compliance, security, and performance requirements. This role requires a lead-by-example leader who sets the standard for AI-native engineering and shows teams how modern software delivery can be transformed through AI, automation, and strong technical judgment. Responsibilities Leadership and Strategy: Build and lead a multi-team engineering organization with clear goals, outcome-based metrics, and a culture of continuous improvement. * AI-Driven Development: Advance AI-enabled engineering practices by integrating AI tools and automation into workflows with human oversight and clear guardrails. * Technology Alignment: Align teams to enterprise architecture, governance, and shared engineering standards to improve consistency and code quality. * Technical Execution and Oversight: Lead roadmap execution with hands-on technical and architectural oversight to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions. * Administer budgets, timelines, and performance measures to achieve short- term and long-term objectives for a particular business area. * Instruct, direct, and has oversight responsibility of managers and staff across the Engineering team, working cooperatively with other leaders. * Influence organizational structure within the area of responsibility. Fully responsible for a functional business area and aligns resources to the achievement of business area goals and objectives. * Resource Optimization: Improve delivery throughput and resource utilization through streamlined processes, automation, and AI-enabled tools without compromising quality or maintainability. Change Management and Influence: As a member of the Technology leadership team, establish and cultivate relationships with business contacts, stakeholders to understand Cotiviti's corporate, business and technology strategies, champion engineering best practices and operational excellence to meet client's needs. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner across Product, Operations, Data, Finance, Security, Program Management and Business teams to translate priorities into engineering plans that deliver measurable outcomes. Process Improvement and Innovation: Modernize development and testing practices through automation, DevOps, and AI-enabled workflows that improve quality, security, and efficiency. Talent Development: Recruit, develop, and retain strong engineering talent while building a culture of growth, accountability, and innovation. Hire, develop, coach, lead and retain top-tier talent, with a focus on building and improving a team and culture that i s able to assist in employing best in class practices to support and drive high levels of internal and external customer... For full info follow application link. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabil ties