Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline required.
10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering leaders, with responsibility for organization level delivery and technical strategy required.
Experience as a direct line manager of senior and staff level engineers required.
Experience building a platform or internal developer capability and growing it on evidence rather than on demand required.
Experience consolidating overlapping internal tools required.
Direct experience applying AI agentic harnesses/frameworks within the software development process, with a defensible view on scaling that responsibly required.
Current ongoing expertise in modern AI engineering, including large language models and agentic systems, retrieval, evaluation and observability, and the supporting data infrastructure required.
Experience running a blended onshore and offshore organization, including a vendor relationship at scale required.
Experience delivering software in a regulated or high trust domain required.
Working knowledge of HIPAA, protected health information handling, auditability, access controls, and applicable clinical and payer requirements.
Hands-on technical depth in Engineering, Architecture, Security background vs. Business expertise only.
Technical leadership and architectural judgement at organizational scale.
Ability to build and defend team size, team shape, and platform investment.
Ability to manage vendors and offshore delivery.
Ability to articulate, drive, and ensure process standardization and adoption of best practices.