Technical Lead, Engineering (Python)

Medicine moves too slow. At Velsera, we are changing that.

Velsera was formed in 2023 through the shared vision of Seven Bridges and Pierian, with a mission to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of life-changing insights.

Velsera provides software and professional services for:

• AI-powered multimodal data harmonization and analytics for drug discovery and development
• IVD development, validation, and regulatory approval
• Clinical NGS interpretation, reporting, and adoption

With our headquarters in Boston, MA, we are growing and expanding our teams located in different countries!

What will you do?

• Manage a team of Engineering Directors & Engineering Managers (hiring, coaching, motivating). 

• Managing the budget for multiple development teams, aligning this budget with strategic business objectives. 

• Build a cost-efficient, effective engineering organization, by analyzing engineering processes, detecting operational gaps, implementing improvements. 

• Support multiple PODs in delivering high-quality software in one or more adjacent product areas. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Product and Customer Operations to ensure the successful delivery of software products. 

• Report on status of organizational metrics. 

What do you bring to the table?

• Strong people leadership skills with the ability to inspire and motivate a team of managers and engineers. At least 2 years of experience in managerial positions. 

• The ability to clearly communicate and collaborate well with both technical and non-technical partners across multiple departments. 

• Combining profound business insights, critical thinking and problem solving skills to set strategic direction. 

• The ability to analyze, define and track key metrics, the ability to act upon these metrics and implement organizational and operational changes. 

• A strong technical background in software engineering, with at least 8 years of experience in the software product development industry. 

• Experience bringing innovative, industry-leading, category-defining tech products to market. 

• Experience with Agile methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle management processes. 

• Excellent prioritization and organizational skills, a track record of actively driving processes to deliver quality outcomes. 

• Good presentation, oral, and written communication skills. 

• Experience working with executive level internal and external clients/partners, acting as a representative of the company. 

• Experience with Cloud technologies, Microservices architecture, Application Programming Interfaces (API) and databases. 

• Experience in Java, TypeScript, Node, React, NestJS and Python. 

• Experience in developing software in a regulated environment is a plus. 

• Experience working in the clinical informatics, health care and life sciences domain is a plus.