Senior Vice President, Engineering – Platform and Data (CA)

PointClickCare Remote or Mississauga Full-time

PointClickCare is a leading North American healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful care collaboration and real‐time patient insights. For over 20 years, the company has been focused on realizing its vision: to help create a world in which providers and plans can confidently deliver frictionless care. Since its inception, PointClickCare has grown exponentially, with over 2,200 employees working to impact millions across North America. Recognized by Forbes as one of the top 100 private cloud companies and acknowledged by Waterstone Human Capital as Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, PointClickCare leads the way in creating cloud-based healthcare software.
 
At PointClickCare, we offer a wealth of opportunities and a vibrant culture that empowers our employees. Our dynamic environment is the perfect place to advance your career while engaging in meaningful work alongside incredible colleagues. Here, you’ll discover a space where your talents can thrive, your career can grow, and your work will have a lasting impact on healthcare across North America. We believe that work becomes profoundly fulfilling when driven by a higher purpose.
 
Join us and be part of a team that is making a real impact.
 
To learn more about us, check out Life at PointClickCare and connect with us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn.
About the Team and About the Role:
Reporting directly to the CTO, the Senior Vice President Engineering – Platform and Data will lead an organization that comprises engineering (with integrated quality assurance) and architecture. This person will lead our established organization of engineers to advance our platform and data platform capabilities. This person will work closely with other Engineering and Product leaders and be accountable for all aspects of product implementation and delivery. The platform and data platform components are used internally to accelerate solution development and externally by our partners to deliver an ecosystem of value for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the advancement and delivery of a world class service-oriented software platform and data platform. 
  • Strengthen the organization through coaching, training and recruiting. 
  • Be an advocate for strong, independent and accountable engineering teams. 
  • Deliver outstanding new functionality to our customers. 
  • Work closely with product management leadership to ensure agile delivery of new capabilities. 
  • Work closely with business unit leaders to ensure rapid advancement of new opportunities. 
  • Work closely with engineering leaders and the CTO in support of corporate strategic priorities. 
  • Ensure that customer issues are addressed and maintain direct communication with the customers. 
  • Help evolve and grow our engineering process, improving velocity and transparency. 
  • Be accountable for strategic initiatives. 
  • Demonstrate a strong commitment to exceptional engineering, with a focus on proactive action and delivering effective business solutions.
  • Participate in architecture, design and technology decisions. 

Your Key Strengths:

  • 10+ years leadership experience of commercial enterprise software engineers with organizations larger than 50 people. 
  • 5+ years delivering commercial software as a service solutions (SaaS). 
  • Proven success growing high caliber engineering organizations. 
  • Experience collaborating with senior leadership on strategic priorities. 
  • Established perspectives on large organization leadership, communications, and change management. 
  • Advanced knowledge of systems architecture and application architecture practices. 
  • Advanced expertise in large-scale SaaS platform and interoperability engineering, as well as in large-scale SaaS data platform engineering.   
  • Advanced knowledge of effective agile practices for large engineering organizations. 
  • Experience leading organizations with full stack, full responsibility (blended developers and QA) teams. 
  • Experience delivering highly complex enterprise solutions with demanding reliability requirements. 
  • Experience delivering solutions with very complicated interoperability and regulatory requirements. 

Optional: Bonus Skills:

  • Rigorous and creative problem-solving ability. 
  • High EQ, low ego. 
  • Advanced degree in computer science or related field.