Vice President of Software Product Engineering Full Time

Description
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

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Location: 3535 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA

Summary:

• The Vice President of Software Product Engineering leads a centralized team that delivers custom software for patients, clinicians, administrators, and researchers-spanning web development, application engineering, and data integrations. The VP will lead and modernize Penn Medicine’s software engineering ecosystem, advance cloud native delivery, increase team efficiency, and develop software that responsibly leverage AI to improve user experience and outcomes.

Responsibilities:

Enterprise Software Development Strategy:

• Define and execute a comprehensive software development strategy that supports clinical, operational, and research priorities and aligns with Penn Medicine’s strategic goals.
• Establish and enforce enterprise-wide standards for software architecture, coding, integrations, testing, delivery, and support and maintenance.
• Leverage expertise with Epic and healthcare interoperability to ensure seamless, secure integration across the ecosystem.

Leadership & Organizational Transformation

• Articulate a clear vision for how modern engineering practices improve performance, quality, and efficiency, and lead the organizational change required to realize that vision.
• Promote best practices in software development, integration, reliability, and secure delivery-raising engineering maturity and embedding applications into clinical and operational workflows.
• Make prioritization and tradeoff decisions that maximize enterprise value and enable scale.
• Articulate a strategy for “buy vs. build” decisions that considers availability of existing products, budget constraints, and competing priorities.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead and develop a centralized, high-performing software development organization, including engineering managers, software engineers, integration engineers, UX, and web developers.
• Foster a positive, inclusive, and innovative culture that attracts, develops, and retains top engineering talent.
• Establish clear service models, roles, and expectations to improve delivery effectiveness and stakeholder satisfaction.

Outcome Accountability

The Vice President of Software Product Engineering is accountable for delivering measurable outcomes, including:

• Modern engineering operating model: Standardized SDLC, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD automation, quality engineering and test automation, and consistent path to production across teams.
• Reliable, integrated applications: Secure, performant, and resilient applications that integrate with Epic and core platforms reduced incidents, faster recovery, and improved system uptime.
• Developer experience & productivity: A cohesive developer platform, common tooling, InnerSource practices, and AI enabled workflows (e.g., code copilots, test generation) that reduce cycle time and increase deployment frequency.
• Cloud ready, scalable architectures: Pragmatic adoption of cloud native patterns where appropriate, with cost-effective use of cloud services and right-sized application refactoring/migration.
• AI enhanced solutions: Responsible use of AI to improve capabilities (e.g., workflow assistance, summarization) and team efficiency, aligned with Penn Medicine’s governance and privacy requirements.
• Operational efficiency: Cost-effective engineering practices that reduce complexity, technical debt, and operating expenses while improving maintainability and time to value.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner closely with clinical, operational, research, and data/analytics leaders to understand needs, prioritize initiatives, and deliver high impact solutions. Balance responsiveness to stakeholder requirements with the discipline needed to drive standardization and scale. Collaborate with peer technology leaders (e.g., EHR/platform, security, infrastructure, data) and partner with the VP of Product Management to adopt a product management approach and manage a portfolio of software products that deliver measurable outcomes.

Industry & Domain Expertise

• Stay current on healthcare trends, Epic integration capabilities, engineering and DevSecOps advancements, AI/ML enablement, and regulatory requirements. Incorporate relevant innovations into Penn Medicine’s software strategy in a responsible, governed manner.

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree is required.
• Master’s Degree is preferred.
• 10+ years progressive leadership experience in software engineering or application development within complex, matrixed environments is required.
• 5+ years experience leading teams is required.

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life’s Work

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.