Senior Manager, Software Development

Hearst Health; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible spending account

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health Network, seeks a Senior Manager, Software Development to lead software engineering execution across multiple development teams. This role directly manages Software Development Leads and ensures software delivery, quality, and release readiness while aligning practices and governance across teams.

The leader will foster organizational standards, coaching, and top-tier delivery with embedded DevOps, modern tooling, and responsible AI-assisted engineering

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software development or leadership.
• 3+ years leading or managing software teams.
• Experience delivering software across multiple teams or workstreams.
• Strong understanding of modern software lifecycle practices, CI/CD, cloud-native platforms, secure delivery, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall software engineering organization through Software Development Leads.
• Coach and develop Software Development Leads with clear priorities and accountability.
• Provide cross-team leadership across multiple teams, workstreams, and platforms.
• Oversee release readiness, quality practices, resource planning, and cross-team dependencies.
• Define and monitor engineering metrics related to delivery, quality, and reliability.

Skills

Java

Groovy

Spring Boot

Svelte

SvelteKit

TypeScript

Vite

React

.NET Core

C#

MarkLogic

Redis

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Docker

GitLab CI/CD

Tekton

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Keycloak

OAuth2/OIDC

JWT

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent practical experience

Job description

IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF YOUR CAREER AT ZYNX HEALTH

Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health Network, is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Development to lead software engineering execution across multiple development teams. This role directly manages Software Development Leads and is accountable for software delivery, engineering quality, release readiness, development practices, resource planning, and cross-team coordination.

Job Description

Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health Network, is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Development to lead software engineering execution across multiple development teams. This role directly manages Software Development Leads and is accountable for software delivery, engineering quality, release readiness, development practices, resource planning, and cross-team coordination.

This leader provides organizational leadership, standards, governance, coaching, and delivery oversight across teams. DevOps resources are embedded within individual development teams and managed by the respective Software Development Leads; this role provides the cross-team standards, governance, and oversight that keep engineering practices aligned.

This is an opportunity for a people-focused, delivery-oriented engineering leader to strengthen engineering consistency, improve development practices, mature release readiness, reduce technical debt, and support responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools.

Responsibilities

Software Engineering Leadership

• Lead the overall software engineering organization through Software Development Leads.
• Manage, coach, and develop Software Development Leads, setting clear priorities, ownership, delivery expectations, and accountability.
• Provide leadership across multiple software development teams, workstreams, and technology platforms.
• Support team maturity, leadership development, performance management, onboarding, retention, and succession planning.

Delivery Execution and Cross-Team Coordination

• Own software delivery execution, sprint and release readiness, quality practices, resource planning, and cross-team dependency management.
• Translate product and technology priorities into clear team plans, delivery expectations, milestones, and execution priorities.
• Identify and communicate delivery risks, blockers, dependencies, staffing needs, operational concerns, and recommended actions.
• Partner with product management, architecture, data platforms, security, compliance, QA, and business stakeholders to align delivery execution with business and technology priorities.

Engineering Standards and Development Practices

• Establish and reinforce consistent engineering standards across teams, including maintainable design, code quality, documentation, testing, code review, release readiness, and operational readiness.
• Ensure Software Development Leads apply consistent development, CI/CD, operational support, and team-level DevOps practices within their teams.
• Promote reusable patterns, responsible modernization, automation, and technical-debt reduction while balancing speed, quality, security, and reliability.
• Define and monitor engineering metrics related to delivery predictability, quality, release readiness, operational health, and team effectiveness.

Embedded DevOps and Operational Readiness

• Provide governance and oversight for embedded DevOps practices across development teams.
• Ensure team-level DevOps execution aligns with organization-wide standards for CI/CD, deployment automation, observability, incident response, and operational support.
• Partner closely with the Senior Manager, Data Platforms & Architecture and the Senior Manager, Security & Compliance on platform, infrastructure, architecture, security, compliance, and operational initiatives.
• Support continuous improvement in release processes, deployment reliability, observability, and production support practices.

AI-Assisted Engineering and Continuous Improvement

• Establish expectations for responsible use of AI-assisted coding and engineering tools.
• Ensure AI-generated code, scripts, documentation, tests, automation, and technical recommendations are reviewed for quality, security, maintainability, and appropriateness.
• Encourage practical use of AI-assisted tools to improve productivity, troubleshooting, documentation, testing, refactoring, and delivery efficiency.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, engineering accountability, and thoughtful innovation.

Required Skills And Experience

• 8+ years of experience in software development, software engineering leadership, application development, DevOps, platform engineering, or related technology roles.
• 3+ years of experience leading or managing software development teams, technical leads, engineering leads, or cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience managing software delivery across multiple teams, workstreams, or product delivery areas.
• Experience leading through technical leads, team leads, or first-line engineering leaders.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, mentoring, performance management, communication, and team-development skills.
• Strong understanding of modern software development lifecycle practices, CI/CD, DevOps principles, cloud-native platforms, secure software delivery, and operational readiness.
• Ability to translate product and technology priorities into clear team plans, execution priorities, and measurable delivery outcomes.
• Experience partnering with architecture, security, compliance, QA, product management, data platforms, and business stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of relevant technologies such as Java, Groovy, Spring Boot, Svelte, SvelteKit, TypeScript, Vite, React, .NET Core, C#, MarkLogic, Redis, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, Tekton, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Keycloak, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, or related tools.
• Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Experience in healthcare, clinical content, regulated software, compliance-driven environments, or enterprise SaaS.
• Experience leading distributed or remote software engineering teams.
• Experience improving engineering standards, release-readiness practices, CI/CD consistency, or operational support models across multiple teams.
• Experience guiding responsible adoption of AI-assisted coding or engineering productivity tools.
• Familiarity with embedded DevOps models, platform engineering partnerships, or shared engineering-practice governance.

About Zynx Health

Zynx Health, a part of Hearst Health, is a market leader in providing evidence-based clinical decision support solutions that help healthcare organizations measurably improve patient outcomes, enhance safety, and lower costs.

Thousands of hospital organizations and providers rely on Zynx Health's rigorously developed and maintained evidence-based clinical content, patented technology, and tailored services to drive clinical improvements at the point of care. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day, for every patient, every time.

Zynx Health seeks to hire and train employees who uphold and mirror our core values of Bold Innovation, Passion, Integrity, Respect, and Excellence. To learn more, visit www.zynxhealth.com.

Zynx Health offers competitive salary and extensive benefits - including medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, life insurance, and matching 401k.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected military and veteran status.

In accordance with applicable law, Zynx is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role where required. The reasonable estimate for this role in Dallas, Texas is $160,000 - $180,000. If this role is open to candidates outside of that location, the salary range would be aligned to that specific location. A final decision on the successful candidate’s starting salary will be based on a number of permissible, non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to skills and experience, training, certifications, and education.

This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending savings account; paid holidays; paid time off; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.