VP, Software Engineering & AI Innovation

Harris Computer; North Carolina; On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Comprehensive benefits

Vacation & personal days

Employee stock ownership

401K

Community involvement

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

MEDHOST, a division of Harris, seeks a technology executive to lead software engineering and advance the company’s technology and AI strategy across the product and platform portfolio. You will build high-performing teams and drive AI-first innovation within MEDHOST’s AI-DLC and product portfolio.

Ideal candidates bring 15+ years in technology with 8+ years in leadership, including 3–5+ years in healthcare/EHR environments, and a track record modernizing platforms and leading large engineering

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 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, develop, 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.
• Oversee planning, 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

Skills

AI strategy

Technology leadership

Software engineering

Executive leadership

EHR domain

Generative AI

LLMs

Security & compliance

Financial acumen

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Tools

Claude

OpenAI technologies

Microsoft Copilot

AWS Bedrock

Job description

MEDHOST, a division of Harris, seeks a technology executive to lead software engineering and advance the company’s technology and AI strategy across the product and platform portfolio. You will build high-performing teams and drive AI-first innovation within MEDHOST’s AI-DLC and product portfolio.

Ideal candidates bring 15+ years in technology with 8+ years in leadership, including 3–5+ years in healthcare/EHR environments, and a track record modernizing platforms and leading large engineering