Manager, Engineering (Belfast)

NantHealth; Belfast; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

NantHealth is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to join their Belfast team. This role involves leading software engineers in the development of innovative healthcare solutions while fostering a collaborative and quality-focused environment. The successful candidate will need a strong technical background and a proven ability to drive teams towards continuous improvement, ensuring high standards of product quality.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Annual bonus

Pension matched up to 6%

Income protection

26 days annual leave + 11 bank holidays

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Free onsite car parking

Subsidised on-site gym membership

Education Assistance programme

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Minimum of 3 years in a software management role.
• Experience in an Agile/Lean environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional engineering teams, providing quality leadership and mentorship.
• Ensure compliance with software development processes and internal standards.
• Identify tools and processes to increase quality and eliminate waste.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem Solving

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Cloud Environment (e.g., Azure)

Containerization frameworks (Docker, Kubernetes)

Job description

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Are you ready to link your passion with a purpose? At NantHealth, we build technology that simplifies healthcare. We manage the data and decisions that help the healthcare industry deliver better patient care.NantHealth’s products target specific pain points that inhibit healthcare from reaching its full potential. Our payer-provider collaboration solutions increase operational efficiency, unlock savings, and enhance communications. Our treatment plan validation capabilities help payers better manage costs for oncology and autoimmune conditions. We’re seeking innovative thinkers who love doing meaningful work. If you’re looking to bring your skills and expertise to a growing technology company, it’s time for you to join us!

To ensure we can provide the best in healthcare tech, we focus on building the best team. Through holding true to our core values – clarity, empathy, collaboration, integrity, a sense of community, and a pioneering approach – we are creating a vibrant culture where ideas can blossom, people can thrive, and success can flourish.

We’re seeking an experienced, self-motivated, passionate, highly productive Engineering Manager to join the NantHealth Engineering Team in Belfast. As an Engineering Manager, you will work collaboratively across multiple departments and multiple sites, being a strong quality advocate and having a proven ability to initiate innovative ideas and concepts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of all Engineers.

As an Engineering Manager you will also lead and manage software engineers responsible for the development and testing of NantHealth products and take responsibility for their career development. Strong technical skills are a requirement coupled with an innovative approach regarding maximization of quality.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Provide quality leadership to cross-functional engineering teams, mentoring, guidance to coach, support and recruitment
• Ensure the team execute in line with NantHealth’s software development processes and enables team compliance with internal standards
• Strategically identify new tools, processes, and techniques for increasing quality and eliminating waste and work closely with other leaders across departments to gain buy-in and implement them; share and spread knowledge of trends and innovations
• Provide technical leadership while instilling department standards and generally accepted architectural qualities
• Provide thought leadership with respect to the role of NantHealth’s software engineers in the lean development methodology; remove obstacles and foster continuous improvement and encourage the team to foster creative thinking
• Influence the options for 'building in' testability during design and development phases
• Ensure features achieve the desired level of functional flow and quality - including reliability, security, and performance
• Clarify how features should work to eliminate ambiguous requirements
• Foster clear and effective communication, promoting seamless collaboration, and actively steering the achievement of technical milestones
• Coordinate harmoniously with various NantHealth groups to ensure synchronized activities and shared success
• Maintain an environment of strong engineering leadership implementing best practices with a continued focus on innovation
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 8+ years software engineering experience in addition to a minimum of 3 years of software management/leadership experience
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working in an Agile/Lean environment
• Technical leader and coach with awareness of the applicability of modern technologies
• Demonstrable experience in overall architecture and software design for products and solutions
• Advanced understanding and experience working in a Lean or Agile environment, continuous integration/continuous deployment, and other Dev Ops best practices
• Demonstrable experience with web application development
• Demonstrable experience with distributed environments
• Experience with working in a Cloud Environment (e.g., Azure)
• Experience with software quality assurance tools and processes, including test automation tools/techniques/frameworks
• Strong understanding of Behavior/Test Driven development
• Containerization frameworks experience such as Docker, Kubernetes

Person Specification:

• Lead by example, and keep current with industry trends and best practices
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to assess and articulate risk when evaluating a situation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to motivate and mentor junior and senior staff
• Capacity to lead multiple projects requiring software applications development
• Ability to drive design innovation
• Technical leader and coach, aware of applicability of new technologies
• Strong attention to detail and being able to think outside of the box
• Ability to report and work accurately and according to agreed timelines

We value each of our employee’s total wellness . From robust medical and dental insurance,to physical and mental wellness discounts, including an optional annual subscription to the Headspace app and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, we understand that our company succeeds when our employees succeed as individuals.

Additional notable benefits include:

Private medical insurance – individual/family

Dental insurance – individual/family

Annual bonus – discretionary

Pension – matched up to 6%

Income protection

26 days annual leave + 11 bank holidays + option to buy/sell up to 5 days

Employee assistanceprogramme

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Free onsite car parking

Subsidised on-site gym membership

Education Assistance programme

Tech scheme – salary sacrifice

Cycle to work scheme – salary sacrifice

GP 24/7 service

Generous ‘Refer a Friend’ scheme

Social events

And much more!

NantHealth provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.