VP, AI-First Software Engineering & Transformation

MEDHOST, Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Comprehensive benefits

3 weeks vacation + 5 personal days

Employee stock ownership

401K and Life insurance

Community involvement

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

MEDHOST, a healthcare IT leader, seeks a technology executive to spearhead software engineering and AI transformation across the product and platform portfolio. You will lead high-performing teams, align technology priorities with business goals, and drive AI-first innovation for enterprise workflows and customer-facing products.

The role requires extensive experience in modern software practices, AI governance, and strategic leadership within regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• 15+ years of progressive technology experience including 8+ years of progressive software engineering leadership experience and 5+ years in senior leadership roles leading large software engineering organizations.
• 3-5+ years' experience with EHR and healthcare software environments
• Demonstrated success leading modernization and software platform transformation initiatives
• Deep expertise in modern software engineering practices, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, and enterprise architecture
• Proven experience implementing AI and machine learning capabilities within enterprise products and AI-DLC workflows
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI frameworks, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), AI orchestration, and AI governance
• Experience working within highly regulated industries and navigating complex security, privacy, and compliance requirements
• Experience with Claude, OpenAI technologies, Microsoft Co-Pilot and AWS Bedrock a plus
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing technology investment portfolios and business cases
• Demonstrated ability to build and scale high-performance engineering organizations

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a high-performing software engineering organization accountable for product delivery, technology evolution, security, reliability, and operational outcomes
• Improve delivery predictability, developer productivity, software quality, resiliency, scalability, and cost effectiveness while balancing innovation, modernization, and commitments
• Partner closely with executive leadership, product management, operations, and security to translate business strategy into executable technology priorities and investment decisions
• Establish metrics and KPIs to measure strategic progress, software engineering effectiveness, AI adoption, and business impact
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to create competitive advantage through innovation
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on technology and AI-related opportunities, risks, and industry trends
• Execute the organization's AI-first transformation strategy across products, software engineering, and AI-DLC with a prioritized roadmap tied to measurable business and customer outcomes
• Execute and continue to evolve the R&D department's AI-DLC strategy incorporating industry best practices and new technology innovation to continue to increase engineering and process efficiencies through AI technology
• Drive incorporation of AI-powered experiences into customer-facing products and enterprise workflows
• Oversee planning, execution, governance, risks, dependencies, and resource allocation for strategic technology and AI initiatives across the product portfolio
• Stay current on industry advancements across models, agent orchestration, best practices and other emerging technology innovations
• Execute and evolve MEDHOST’s technology strategy and architecture roadmap aligned with corporate objectives, product priorities, and customer needs
• Lead modernization of legacy applications, cloud platforms, APIs, and AI capabilities using advances in architecture and engineering approaches
• Drive improvements in software delivery performance, quality, resiliency, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Govern technology standards and investment priorities; identifying opportunities where AI and emerging technologies can create measurable differentiation and operating leverage

Skills

Executive leadership

Software leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

AI strategy

ML capabilities

Generative AI

LLMs

AI governance

Security & compliance

Financial acumen

Enterprise architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Claude

Microsoft Copilot

AWS Bedrock

APIs

Job description

MEDHOST, a healthcare IT leader, seeks a technology executive to spearhead software engineering and AI transformation across the product and platform portfolio. You will lead high-performing teams, align technology priorities with business goals, and drive AI-first innovation for enterprise workflows and customer-facing products.

The role requires extensive experience in modern software practices, AI governance, and strategic leadership within regulated environments.