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Senior Director Program Management

Simplify Recruiting · United States · 1 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineeringFull-time

Domain: US Health Plan / Payer Technology (Currently working with Healthcare Payer Account) | Location: Remote – USA | Employment: Full-Time | Experience: 18+ years

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Director – Program Management to provide executive-level leadership across a portfolio of complex health plan technology programs. This is a senior, client-facing delivery leadership role at the intersection of technology, program execution, client engagement, and AI-first transformation. You will own end-to-end delivery governance across multiple concurrent workstreams spanning software engineering, data & integration, AWS/cloud, DevOps, and AI-enabled engineering, while serving as a key point of accountability with senior client stakeholders and internal executive leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery across large, multi-team technology programs within the US health plan/payer domain.
  • Lead Technical Program Managers and Technology Leaders across distributed onshore/offshore teams.
  • Establish program governance, integrated plans, delivery metrics, RAID management, executive dashboards, and dependency management.
  • Govern Agile, SAFe, and hybrid delivery models.
  • Manage program budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and cost-to-complete.
  • Ensure HIPAA-aware delivery, security, quality, and client governance standards.
  • Serve as a Delivery Executive for VP and C-suite client stakeholders.
  • Lead executive steering committees, QBRs, delivery reviews, and critical escalations.
  • Partner with engineering and architecture leadership across AWS, distributed systems, data engineering, integration, and DevOps.
  • Champion AI-assisted engineering, testing, documentation, operations, and program delivery.
  • Establish measurable AI adoption and productivity goals across programs.
  • Bring practical familiarity with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar AI tools.
  • Understand RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and responsible AI.
  • Establish AI governance appropriate for regulated healthcare environments, including protection of PHI and sensitive client/member data.
  • Identify AI-driven automation opportunities throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Requirements

  • 18+ years of technology program/delivery management experience.
  • 5+ years in senior delivery/program leadership managing large technology portfolios.
  • Strong US health insurance / health plan / payer experience.
  • Experience delivering large, complex software engineering programs.
  • Consulting, professional services, health tech, or managed services experience.
  • Strong understanding of AWS/cloud architecture and distributed systems.
  • Experience leading large onshore/offshore delivery organizations.
  • Strong program financial management experience.
  • Executive-level client and stakeholder management experience.
  • Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, and hybrid delivery methodologies.

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