The Executive Director Software Engineering – PCW will be responsible for overseeing the Retail pharmacy platform modernization and other strategic initiatives and ensuring the successful execution of engineering programs. This role leads a cross‑functional team of software engineers, responsible for developing core capabilities and compliance, regulatory, safety, and operational insight capabilities for the retail open platform serving Grocers and Independent Pharmacies.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and maintain software ecosystem which adhere to highly regulated compliance, regulatory, and safety requirement
• Build platform which allows partner to increase revenue through cross sell and upsell
• Own data pipelines, semantic layers, and reporting products that provide operational and growth insights for pharmacy partners.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, auditability, and regulatory compliance.
• Translate VP‑level strategy into clear roadmaps, backlogs, and execution plans for the pillar.
• Recruit, develop, and retain engineering and data talent; drive best practices in SDLC, data quality, and analytics.

Responsibilities

• The ability to inspire your teammates to deliver quality software solutions
• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers in modernizing our core pharmacy platform
• Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open source products across all platforms
• Work in a startup mindset to modernize our existing tech stacks
• Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning
• Partner with architects, product owners, and software engineers to drive the implementation of new solutions and applications
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into cloud environments – AWS, GCP and Azure
• Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards
• Collaborate with engineering teams on setting technical direction and ensure alignment with our technology strategy
• Drive scale & reuse by leveraging platforms and capabilities
• Hands-on, roll up your sleeves collaborative style of working
• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across mobile and web full-stack development tools and technologies
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
• Develop proof of concepts and ensure their successful transition to production, maintaining the highest standards of security and quality
• Technology research and innovation to develop long term roadmap based on emerging trends in healthcare and digital technologies

Qualifications

• 15+ years' experience in systems analysis and application program development.
• 12 years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in people leadership.
• Proven experience building and operating cloud‑native systems (ideally on GCP) and Java‑based microservices.
• Strong background in B2B or B2B2C platforms, experience and APIs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead modernization and migration efforts in a complex environment.
• Bachelors degree required