Associate Vice President, Product & Engineering

The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer-fueled organization whose mission is to cure Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis and improve the quality of life for the children and adults affected by these diseases. Our work is dramatically accelerating the research process through our varied research initiatives; we also provide extensive educational and support resources for patients and their families, medical professionals, and the public. In addition, we lead federal and state-based advocacy campaigns to support medical research funding and improve patient access to care. The Foundation’s core values of compassion, integrity, leadership, collaboration, and inclusion inspire and drive every member of our highly performing team.

Position Summary

The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation is seeking an Associate Vice President, Product & Engineering. This position may be performed anywhere in the United States and will be fully remote. The AVP will provide architectural expertise across all layers of the application. This role will lead the software development team to support short/long-term foundation objectives and to assume end-to-end technical and platform/s ownership.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project management, team members, and research team (onshore and offshore) to design, plan, and develop new platforms/products and product enhancements in an agile environment.
• Keep abreast of emerging technologies and own the technology debt backlog.
• Develop, monitor, maintain, and improve key processes crucial to the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Develop an efficient study site onboarding process by introducing healthcare interoperability methodology and deploying interface development tools and frameworks.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in healthcare software product development.
• 2 years of experience in web-based or cloud-based technologies or Software as a Service (SaaS), such as AWS, Data Lakes, and usage of terminologies including NCPDP, SNOMED-CT, and RxNorm.
• 5 years of experience in using clinical data and interoperability standards such as HL7, CCDA, and X12 standards, database management systems including SQL, Oracle, or data modeling tools, REST APIs, and Java or Python.