Director, Software Engineering - Developer Platforms and AI

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Shape engineering capabilities at GHX by pioneering AI-assisted development and modern cloud practices to enhance software delivery for the healthcare industry.

GHX is building a new engineering capability to transform how our teams build and deploy healthcare supply chain solutions. As Director of Developer Platform & AI Enablement, you'll lead a small, high-impact team that embeds directly with product engineering teams to drive measurable productivity gains through AI-assisted development practices and modern cloud-native infrastructure patterns. 

This is a player-coach role. You'll spend the majority of your time (70-80%) embedded with application teams, writing code, architecting solutions, and proving out patterns. You'll pioneer how GHX leverages AI throughout the software development lifecycle while simultaneously playing a key role in our evolution toward cloud-native architecture and team-owned infrastructure. 

You'll be the technical leader who shows teams "what good looks like" rather than telling them—demonstrating measurable productivity gains through hands-on execution while building reusable patterns that scale across the organization. 

What You'll Do 

AI-Assisted Development Leadership

  • Embed directly within product engineering teams to drive measurable improvements in developer productivity by integrating AI into daily workflow design, coding, testing, deployment, and operations 
  • Lead tool selection and adoption strategy for AI development platforms (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), establishing best practices for prompt engineering, context management, and workflow integration 
  • Build and maintain custom AI tooling, MCP servers, and integrations that provide teams with domain-specific context from your codebase, documentation, infrastructure, and business systems 
  • Develop and socialize reusable patterns for code generation, refactoring, test automation, incident analysis, and knowledge retrieval that teams can apply across their daily work 
  • Implement AI code review and validation practices to ensure AI-generated code meets security, quality, and HIPAA compliance standards 
  • Champion a culture of AI-augmented development that enables engineers to tackle bigger challenges, improve code quality, and reduce toil—without sacrificing maintainability or creating technical debt 
  • Create self-service documentation, learning paths, and enablement programs (workshops, office hours, communities of practice) to scale AI adoption across engineering 
  • Measure and communicate impact using both quantitative metrics (velocity, quality, time-to-deployment) and qualitative measures (developer satisfaction, cognitive load reduction, friction logging) 

Cloud-Native & IaC Enablement (30%) 

  • Lead application-level infrastructure-as-code initiatives, empowering product teams to own their cloud resources (containers, SQS, Lambda, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, etc.) 
  • Design reference architectures and terraform/CDK patterns that balance team autonomy with consistency and security 
  • Partner with the enterprise DevOps team to establish clear boundaries—they own foundational infrastructure (VPCs, security groups, IAM foundations), you enable teams to own application-layer resources 
  • Build proof-of-concepts and migration playbooks as GHX transitions from lift-and-shift EC2 environments to truly cloud-native architectures 
  • Manage engineers on cloud-native design patterns, observability, cost optimization, and operational excellence 

Technical Leadership & Collaboration (20%) 

  • Provide direction, hands-on execution to grow an engineering team 
  • Work closely with product managers, engineering leaders, and cross-functional partners to translate business needs into practical AI and infrastructure solutions 
  • Establish metrics and feedback loops to continuously improve both AI adoption and cloud-native maturity 
  • Balance innovation with pragmatism—championing new approaches while ensuring solutions scale sustainably 

What You Bring 

Required: 

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in technical leadership roles 
  • Deep hands-on experience with cloud-native architecture on AWS (containers/ECS/EKS, serverless, managed databases, event-driven patterns) 
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code background (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK) with experience enabling engineering teams to own their infrastructure 
  • Demonstrated experience integrating AI/LLM tools into software development workflows—whether through custom tooling, MCP servers, or commercial platforms (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) 
  • Track record of embedding with teams to drive technical transformation and measurable productivity improvements 
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to influence and mentor engineers across all levels 
  • Comfortable working in a player-coach capacity—rolling up sleeves while providing strategic direction 

Strongly Preferred: 

  • Experience in healthcare, regulated industries, or complex B2B environments 
  • Background in platform engineering, developer experience, or engineering enablement 
  • Familiarity with measuring developer productivity (DORA metrics, flow metrics, qualitative feedback) 
  • Experience building internal developer platforms or establishing engineering best practices at scale 
  • Understanding of security, compliance, and governance requirements in cloud environments 

Why This Role Matters 

Healthcare supply chain touches millions of lives. At GHX, the speed and quality with which we build software directly impacts healthcare providers, suppliers, and ultimately patient care. By pioneering AI-assisted development and modern cloud practices, you'll multiply the effectiveness of our engineering teams and accelerate our ability to deliver value to the healthcare industry. 

You'll have the rare opportunity to shape two critical engineering capabilities from the ground up, with executive sponsorship and the autonomy to experiment, learn, and establish patterns that will influence how GHX builds software for years to come. 

Estimated Salary: $150,000 - $214,000 plus bonus

 

The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the GHX’s salary range for this position. The base salary is one component of GHX’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, accident and life insurance, 401k matching, paid-time off, and education reimbursement, to name a few. To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://www.ghx.com/about/career

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GHX: It's the way you do business in healthcare
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.

GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe - who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.

It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Colorado, with additional offices in Europe.

Disclaimer
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC and its North American subsidiaries (collectively, “GHX”) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable law. This EEO policy applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including hiring, training and development, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, educational assistance, termination, layoffs, social and recreational programs, and retirement.GHX believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each employee to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. GHX expects and requires the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere. Improper interference with the ability of GHX’s employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

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GHX is a healthcare supply chain management company that automates processes, reduces costs, and improves visibility in healthcare supply chains.

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