The Manager, Software Engineering will provide leadership, support, and strategic direction for laboratory information systems and
supporting platforms in multi-hospital environment.

*  Please note this is a Hybrid opportunity.  The position requires three days of work on site in our Chantilly, VA labroatory.  The other two days will account for work from home.

• Review of the product architectural design, requirements specifications, and test specifications
• Technical assessment of the impact of any changes to product requirements
• May require 25/30% design, coding, unit testing, and code review as needed.
• Design, configure, debug, and deploy software within the scheduled timeframe
• Provision of day-to-day technical guidance to other members of the project team
• Highlight, review and mitigate technical risks
• Resolution of technical issues in conjunction with team members
• Determine and/or approve estimates for development tasks
• Provide the project team with support and guidance on project specific processes, procedures, tools, and techniques
• Technical point of contact with Test and Documentation, responsible for delivery of required technical information
• Ensure that designs, code, and unit tests are consistent, robust, and scalable
• Delegates tasks to, organizes, mentors and motivates a team of resources
• Contribute to the continued improvement of the organization’s development procedures by looking for opportunities for improvement and implementing solutions
• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement in all areas of technology and instills the principles of this culture in a team of resources
• Follows, and assures team adherence to Quest policies and procedures framework

• Identification of technology training requirements
• Work with Director in the development and administration of the departmental budget
• Steward of process improvement initiatives
• Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s polices and applicable laws
• Responsible for interviewing potential candidates, hiring, training, oversight of daily activities and performance appraisals of his/her employees

Education: BS/BA degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or related field including MLT, MT

Required Work Experience:  

• Demonstrate how you’ve leveraged Customer Experience processes to act as an advocate for customers
• At least 5 years of experience working with Laboratory Information Systems (LIS)
• 5 to10 years of programming experience in JAVA, Angular, VB., .NET, C++, Python
• Experience in coaching, mentoring and/or training other team members
• Minimum 5 Years of people leadership experience

Leader Responsibility:

• Ability to manage a team of rescources
• Ability to communicate effectively with Senior Leadership

Knowledge:  

• Customer Experience Management
• Laboratory operations workflow
• Laboratory instrumentation
• Design Thinking
• Business/Digital Analysis
• Agile
• Healthcare or clinical lab industry knowledge beneficial

Skills:  

• Change management
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Beyond the typical communications skills, an ability to tell a story is a must have “what does the data tell us?”
• Ability to build strong and trusted relationships
• Collaborate with others for optimal results
• Ability to work independently and drive for results
• Business process mapping (BPM) skills beneficial

While we appreciate and value our staffing partners, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Quest will not be responsible for paying agency fees for any individual as to whom an agency has sent an unsolicited resume.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets