Sr Director Software Engineering

RELX; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 156,700 - 290,900; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier Health Education is seeking a collaborative technology leader to oversee nursing and medical education platforms, driving fast delivery while preserving psychological safety for teams.

You will steer multi-year roadmaps, advance cloud modernization, API-first architecture, and AI-enabled capabilities, partner with product and UX, and mentor senior engineers across global teams.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing cross-functional teams.
• Experience in healthcare or education technology or regulated data environments.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development and responsible adoption.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks in a compliance-heavy environment.
• Extensive architectural judgment and strategic thinking.
• Ability to partner with Product and UX across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technology teams across Elsevier Health Education, under Health Markets, delivering scalable software solutions.
• Provide technical and organizational leadership, driving execution, modernization, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with product, architecture, data, quality, and business stakeholders to align technology investments with business priorities.
• Develop and execute multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with Elsevier Health Education’s objectives.
• Drive cloud modernization, API-first architecture, and AI-enabled product capabilities across Nursing and Medical Education platforms.
• Establish engineering standards, architecture governance, security, scalability, and operational best practices across teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including Generative AI, to improve learning experiences and accelerate product innovation.
• Build and mentor engineering managers across geographically distributed teams.
• Create a culture focused on engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and inclusion.
• Drive workforce planning, succession planning, organizational design, and leadership development.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Healthcare/edtech experience

AI-assisted development

Data governance

Architecture

Product/UX collaboration

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 asScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal,ClinicalKeyandSherpath support strategicresearch management,R&D performance,clinical decision support, medical education, andnursing education. Researchers and healthcare professionals rely on over 2,800 journals, includingThe LancetandCell; 46,000+ eBook titles; and iconic reference works, such as Gray's Anatomy.

With theElsevier Foundation and our externalInclusion & Diversity Advisory Board, we work in partnership with diverse stakeholders to advanceinclusion and diversityin science, research and healthcare in developing countries and around the world.

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $156,700 - $290,900. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.