Software Director

SUMMARY

The Global Director will lead software projects and teams and provide technical and leadership expertise. This position requires experience with 21 CFR 820 and IEC 62034 compliance with emphasis on software design, verification, and validation.  The ideal candidate will have hands on experience leading complex projects, building high performing teams, standardizing processes, effective team collaboration, and solving technical challenges.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the global software development team to be a high performing, collaborative and innovative team across projects and geographies
• Demonstrate Leadership balancing what’s important vs. what’s urgent with strong project team connection and understanding of priorities across all projects
• Mentor software engineers in the development of architecture, design, procedures, documentation
• Establish standard software development process across projects with best practices shared
• Establish Common OS & tools used across projects
• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks 
• Allow for frictionless leverage of resources / bandwidth and reuse of modules across projects 
• Hands on software development on the devices as needed
• Work across projects, understand project needs and support software engineers in delivering to project commitments

POSITION REQUIREMENTS 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, software engineering, computer science, or another relevant engineering discipline
• 15+ years relevant work experience, preferably in medical technology or other regulated industries
• Proven track record leading teams through complex problem solving
• Proven track record of managing software development process with best practices
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience in the following:
  • Embedded software development using C/C++
  • Object-oriented languages such as Java and C#
  • Understanding of Cloud based software applications
  • Agile or equivalent methodology in planning work using Sprints
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to travel globally –15% of their time