Director, Software Development Engineering

Join a team dedicated to supporting the crucial mission of improving health outcomes.

At Merative,  you can apply your skills – and grow new ones – with colleagues who have deep expertise in health and technology. Merative provides data, analytics and software for the health industry. Our clients include providers, health plans, employers, life sciences companies and governments around the world. With industry-leading products and focused innovation, we help customers improve decision-making and performance so that together, we drive real progress in health. Learn more at merative.com

About Us
Truven is a platform offering real-world data, healthcare analytics, and member engagement solutions to help improve health and financial outcomes. We offer a deep understanding of the healthcare industry and time-tested processes to ensure precise, accurate insights. Truven provides information, analytic tools, benchmarks, research, and services to a variety of healthcare organizations. Our mission is to enable smarter decisions, reduce inefficiencies, and improve patient outcomes across the healthcare ecosystem. Learn more at merative.com.

Role Overview

The Director of Software Development provides strategic and operational leadership across multiple engineering teams responsible for building and supporting systems that collect, transform, analyze, and report on healthcare data. This role leads Development Managers and senior engineers, drives technical direction, ensures reliable delivery, and represents the technology organization in internal and client-facing conversations. The ideal candidate combines strong engineering leadership, practical technical acumen, experience with healthcare data, and the ability to communicate clearly with executives, customers, and cross-functional partners.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership, People Management & Organizational Management

• Lead and develop multiple Development Managers and their teams, building a high-performing organization with clear expectations, accountability, and professional growth paths.• Develop leaders through coaching, mentorship, and constructive feedback to strengthen organizational capability.• Recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent across distributed teams.• Coach and grow engineers through mentorship, skill development, and clear performance expectations.• Foster an inclusive engineering culture that promotes psychological safety, open communication, and shared ownership.• Communicate expectations, priorities, and change with clarity to ensure alignment across distributed teams.• Navigate ambiguity effectively and provide steady leadership during periods of organizational or technical change.• Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Security to align priorities and drive end-to-end delivery.• Promote effective cross-team collaboration to ensure consistent execution across locations and functional boundaries.• Manage engineering labor budget for your area and projects, tracking spend month to month.• Work a flexible schedule to collaborate effectively with the global team.• Navigate vendor relationships and procurement processes as prescribed by the company.

Technical Strategy, Architecture & Execution

• Provide technical oversight for systems spanning data ingestion, transformation pipelines, analytical processing, APIs, and user-facing applications.• Partner with architects to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, high-performing, and cost-effective.• Drive modernization initiatives that improve platform reliability, development efficiency, and long-term maintainability.• Identify, plan, and execute strategies to reduce technical debt and decay, with an eyetowards aligning improvements with business value (e.g., performance improvements to increase market penetration and drive usage, SSO to