Sr Director Software Engineer - Nursing Education Products

Elsevier; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier in the United States is seeking a collaborative technology leader to guide multiple teams delivering scalable software for Nursing and Medical Education. You will drive architectural decisions, cloud modernization, and AI-enabled features while ensuring safe, compliant product development.

As a senior leader, you will partner closely with product, UX, data, and business stakeholders across time zones, mentor engineering managers, and shape multi-year roadmaps that align with Elsevier

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build and lead multiple cross-functional tech teams.
• Experience in healthcare/education tech or regulated data environments.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development and responsible adoption.
• Strong data governance familiarity.
• Deep architectural judgment with strategic perspective.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technology teams delivering scalable software for Nursing and Medical Education.
• Set roadmaps, standards, architecture governance, and security practices.
• Partner with product, UX, data, and business stakeholders across time zones.
• Drive cloud modernization, API-first design, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Mentor engineering managers and foster inclusive, high-performance culture.
• Plan workforce, succession, and organizational design.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional teams

AI-enabled development

Architecture & strategy

Healthcare / Education tech

Cloud modernization

Job description

Are you a collaborative innovative leader looking to work for a mission driven global organization?

About the role; Driven technology leader entrusted with maintaining the psychological safety of both direct and indirect reports. Entrusted with the speed to delivery for multiple products within our Nursing Health Education suite of products.

About the team; This is within our strategic healthcare businesses focused on preparing nursing students, supporting nursing faculty, and helping healthcare organizations develop and retain nurses. It sits within Elsevier's broader Health division and has become an increasingly important growth area as nursing shortages and AI-enabled education reshape healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Leading multiple technology teams across Elsevier Health Education, under Health Markets responsible for the design, development, delivery, and operation of scalable software solutions supporting strategic business objectives of building innovation products for Nursing and Medical Education.
• Providing technical and organizational leadership across product and engineering domains, driving execution, operational excellence, modernization, and continuous improvement.
• Partnering closely with product, architecture, data, quality, and business stakeholders to align technology investments with business priorities while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and talent development.
• Developing and executing multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with Elsevier Health Education’s strategic objectives.
• Driving cloud modernization, platform consolidation, API-first architecture, and AI-enabled product capabilities across Nursing and Medical Education platforms.
• Establishing engineering standards, architecture governance, security, scalability, and operational best practices across multiple teams.
• Evaluating emerging technologies, including Generative AI and machine learning, to improve learning experiences and accelerate product innovation.
• Building, mentoring, and leading high-performing engineering managers and technical leaders across geographically distributed teams.
• Creating a culture focused on engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and inclusion.
• Driving workforce planning, succession planning, organizational design, and leadership development.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• Experience in healthcare / education technology or another regulated, data-sensitive domain.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development (e.g. Claude Code, Copilot) and how to adopt it responsibly across teams.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks in a compliance-heavy environment.
• Extensive technical judgment — can go deep on architecture, then zoom out to strategy.
• Experience partnering with Product and UX to deliver customer-facing outcomes across diff time zone

Elsevier employs 10,000 people worldwide, including over 2,500 technologists. We have supported the work of our research and health partners for more than 140 years. Growing from our roots in publishing, we offer knowledge and valuable analytics that help our users make breakthroughs and drive societal progress.

Digital solutions such as ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey and Sherpath support strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, medical education, and nursing education. Researchers and healthcare professionals rely on over 2,800 journals, including The Lancet and Cell; 46,000+ eBook titles; and iconic reference works, such as Gray's Anatomy. With the Elsevier Foundation and our external Inclusion & Diversity Advisory Board, we work in partnership with diverse stakeholders to advance inclusion and diversity in science, research and healthcare in developing countries and around the world.