Job Description

Technical Summary:

The Director of Research and Development in Medical Informatics is a significant contributor, decision maker, and strategic partner in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group organization, that will influence research and development roadmaps, architecture and systems/application implementation, testing and deployment. The Director is responsible for system design, development, deployment and maintenance across multiple platforms. The Director works closely with executives and medical informatics staff to effectively meet business/clinical needs with high-quality systems and solutions.

Job Summary:

This managing level employee is responsible for overseeing the management of multiple application portfolios, directing and overseeing technical teams, and for directing teams through all software development lifecycle phases.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Directs the operation of multiple units and/or departments by identifying customer and operational needs; analyzing resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; gaining cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; and ensuring products and/or services meet customer requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies.


• Demonstrates continuous learning and maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives; overseeing the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; motivating teams; preparing individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; staying current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; providing guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; and ensuring performance management guidelines and expectations drive business objectives and results.


• As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.


• Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.


• Ensures the provision of appropriate resources to address systems incident support and troubleshooting.


• Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions.


• Directs and oversees technical teams in the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by building and maintaining partnerships with Business Analyst and IT leadership to ensure team members understand business needs and functional specifications.


• Oversees the management of multiple application portfolios and/or provides resources in support of those portfolios by leveraging partnerships with IT teams (for example, Operations, Infrastructure, Architecture, Quality Assurance, Business Analysts), vendors, and business leaders to ensure adherence of written code to company standards.


• Oversees efforts to ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures.


• Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs.


• Provides oversight throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions to ensure successful deployment.


• Ensures appropriate guidance and mentoring is provided to other technical resources in the application development process.


• Oversees the technical management of vendors (e.g., offshore, application, service).


• Directs teams through all software development lifecycle phases by ensuring that teams understand and adhere to company methodology, policies, standards, and controls.


• Fosters and leverages partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specification.


• Oversees the development, configuration, and modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions by providing leadership in the design and coding of component-based applications.


• Oversees the management of resource requirements throughout the PLC.


• Directs and oversees the development, validation, and execution of testing scenarios to identify application errors and ensure software solutions meet functional specifications.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum six (6) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC).


• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS, Engineering, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in corporate management, project management, IT consulting, or related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

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