About Us:

CyncHealth is a statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) with a purpose to achieve health care transformation through community betterment and collaboration while protecting the security and privacy of medical information. Join our team to play a key role in leading a health data utility, advancing interoperability, and improving healthcare.

Position Summary:

The Director of Engineering is a senior technical leader responsible for guiding the architecture, development, and secure deployment of data platforms, clinical interoperability systems, and healthcare applications. This role combines hands-on engineering expertise with people leadership to support scalable and compliant solutions in cloud-native environments. The Director ensures delivery excellence through industry best practice coupled with agile engineering practices while closely collaborating with Project Management to align work across product and operations.

Responsibilities:

• Translate organizational strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps and technical execution plans.
• Define and track team-level OKRs aligned with strategic goals and technical milestones.
• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and technical ceremonies in collaboration with Scrum Masters and the Product and Project Managers.
• Ensure agile best practices are embedded within engineering teams, promoting rapid iteration, technical excellence, and sustainable delivery.
• Guide technical direction across cloud infrastructure, secure SDLC, DevSecOps pipelines, and scalable data systems.
• Serve as an escalation point and thought leader across architectural decisions, secure development practices, and production readiness.
• Ensure adoption of cloud-native solutions in AWS, including S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, IAM, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Lead and mentor engineers across multiple disciplines (e.g., software development, DevSecOps, cloud/data engineering).
• Hire, coach, and lead top team members. Provide regular and ongoing feedback, including performance management with direct reports.
• Foster a culture of technical ownership, integrity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee deployment pipelines, automation, and observability systems (e.g., logging, alerting, monitoring) to ensure system reliability.
• Ensure engineering practices align with security, compliance, and privacy frameworks such as HIPAA, HITRUST, and the 21st Century Cures Act.
• Maintain internal documentation and ensure audit-readiness of infrastructure, processes, and code repositories.
• Lead development and hardening of clinical data pipelines including ingestion, transformation, and delivery.
• Oversee adherence to healthcare standards such as FHIR, HL7 v2, SMART on FHIR, and patient identity matching algorithms.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure effective and secure data exchange.
• Assist with managing 3^rd party contracts and/or agreements.
• Partner with the Project Managers and Product Managers to ensure engineering delivery aligns with roadmap priorities and contract obligations.
• Support state, payer, and vendor relationships by representing technical direction and ensuring quality deliverables.
• Serve as a technical SME for internal teams and state engagements as needed.
• Manage resources and business objectives in compliance with charter, policies, and standards.
• Model CyncHealth’s values and Code of Conduct.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education, Experience & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Health Informatics, or related field (Master’s degree strongly preferred).
• 10+ years in engineering with demonstrated commitment to remaining abreast of new and emerging engineering technology and best practices.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership, with responsibility over high-performing software, data, or cloud engineering teams. Ability to lead technical teams while maintaining high engineering standards and autonomy.
• Experience delivering production systems in a healthcare or regulated data environment.
• Expertise in AWS services (e.g., Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, IAM), containerization, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Strong understanding of secure SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and testing frameworks.
• Skilled in one or more languages such as Python, Java, or Golang and fluency with SQL and modern data tooling (e.g., dbt, Airflow).
• Familiarity with healthcare data formats, APIs, identity resolution, and interoperability standards.
• Strong communicator, able to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively.
• Skilled at balancing strategic focus with operational execution in an agile and evolving environment.
• Ability to work in a fast-changing and sometimes ambiguous environment, identifying key priorities and driving new solutions.
• Strong interpersonal/relationship management skills and team building skills.
• Excellent mathematical, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to work on a computer for extended periods of time.
• Ability to stand or sit for extended periods of time.
• Hours are generally Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM. As operational deliverable deadlines emerge there will likely be extended working hours.
• Light work requiring exertion up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
• Ability to work from La Vista, NE office with reliable and predictable attendance

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, & Vision
• 20 days paid time off annually + 9 paid holidays annually.
• Long & short-term disability (fully paid by CyncHealth)
• Life Insurance (fully paid by CyncHealth)
• 401(k) with 4% matching & immediate vesting
• Parental Leave
• Pet Insurance
• Other voluntary benefits

Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. The statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for this position.

Must be authorized to work in the United States.