Director of Digital Engineering

Position : Director / AVP Digital Engineering

Direct Hire / Full Time

Compensation : Competitive base + bonus + FTE benefits

Location : Princeton NJ-onsite when clients are in town but primarily remote

Interview / start : ASAP

MUST :

• 3+ years of recent experience with director level title, 15+ year of total experience within software engineering / digital technology
• 10+ years of life sciences / pharma experience
• Ideally someone who started as an UX / UI front end developer or full stack developer and then moved into project / program management, then to director level
• Has delivered large scale software dev projects
• Tech agnostic- must know what's possible / not possible with technology in general, and be able to look at technology functionally
• Consulting background
• People management exp, has managed a team of at least 20-25 people before (could be devs, program managers, architects)
• Bachelors required
• Experience with custom build applications
• Has worked extensively with India offshore teams
• Started technical then moved to functional business side- delivering large custom development projects
PLUS :
• Masters

DAY TO DAY :

Our pharma consulting client is seeking a strategic and experienced Sr Director / AVP – Digital Engineering to lead their digital engineering initiatives. The ideal candidate will be responsible for defining and executing the digital technology roadmap, driving innovation, and leading high-performing engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-quality digital solutions. This role will be client facing, work extensively with an offshore team to gather requirements, and focus on translating those requirements to help build material to present to the client. This role will lead a team of 6-7 personnel consisting of functional and technical consultants as well as program managers, and the number of direct reports can grow as you settle into the role. This role will focus on delivery products for our life sciences clients and large digital technology roll outs.