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A Little About Us
Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience for all by providing a connected platform that bridges the gaps and aligns interests across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. This platform serves more than 750 payers, including the top 5 national health plans, BCBS insurers, regional health plans, TPAs and self-insured employers, and millions of healthcare providers and consumers. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts—driving real, measurable results for clients.
A Little About You
You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you've learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you've gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.
Position Overview
We are looking for a transformative engineering leader to drive the future of our Payments Technology solutions. As the Director of Product Engineering for Payments Technology, you will unite product vision, technical excellence, and customer focus to deliver world-class solutions at scale. You will collaborate with business partners and product leaders to align priorities and ensure timely, modern, and scalable delivery of enhancements across our application suite. In this role, you will also work closely with Cloud and Application Architects as well as the Head of Platform Engineering to champion our technical modernization strategy – energizing your teams around this vision and ensuring strong alignment.What You’ll Do
1. Roadmap Alignment & Delivery
Partner closely with product and business teams to shape and prioritize a clear, customer-driven roadmap that also supports modernization of our technology stack.
Establish domain-oriented teams with deep product, customer, and technical expertise who are highly skilled in building products that our customers love and work well for our business.
Champion agile practices that convert strategic vision into high-quality and iterative deliverables.
Proactively manage technical debt alongside feature delivery to ensure platform stability and scalability.
Incorporate an iterative feedback loop by analyzing product performance and customer experience to continuously evolve the roadmap.
2. Technical Vision & Architecture Leadership
Work side-by-side with architects and platform leaders to drive a forward-looking technical modernization agenda.
Promote Platform-as-a-Service mindset among cross-functional engineering and IT leaders to drive velocity and efficiency in your teams.
Inspire your teams to adopt scalable architectures, clean code practices, and a culture of continuous innovation.
Collaborate with infrastructure, operations, and security teams to embed reliability, security, and scalability into product design.
3. Engineering Growth & Customer Obsession
Build and mentor high-performing teams that prioritize customer impact and leverage modern technology to deliver it.
Lead efforts to upskill engineers, infuse customer insights into development practices, and foster a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
Drive agile maturity across engineering teams, enabling frequent releases, close team collaboration, and measurable outcomes.
Cultivate a “Quality First” mindset and embed it into the development life cycle as well as automated DevOps workflows.
Lead recruitment, training, and professional development initiatives to ensure the team is equipped with the skills needed to meet evolving business challenges.
4. Governance, Compliance, & Risk Management
Collaborate with compliance, security, and IT risk teams to ensure that products meet regulatory requirements (such as PCI-DSS, SOC2, and other relevant standards).
Implement technology governance best practices within the product engineering teams to ensure consistency in development processes, security, and code quality.
Ensure that product releases comply with organizational risk management frameworks and are built with proactive measures for security and data protection.
What You’ll Bring to Zelis
Required Qualifications
10+ years of engineering leadership experience, ideally within payments or high-transaction environments.
3+ years in a Senior Manager or Director role.
Experience leading globally distributed teams.
Proven success in aligning senior business, product, and engineering leaders around clear priorities.
Strong technical foundation in modern application development, architecture, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure.
Demonstrated ability to translate business objectives into actionable engineering outcomes.
Excellent communication, leadership, and decision-making skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
Strongly Preferred Qualifications
Experience leading the development of internal CRMs, such as Salesforce.
Experience leading an organizational structure that separates Platform Engineering modernization efforts from Product Engineering rapid application development.
Familiarity with modern UI architecture (reusable web components, design systems) and backend integration patterns (GraphQL, BFF).
Location and Workplace Flexibility
We have offices in Atlanta GA, Boston MA, Morristown NJ, Plano TX, St. Louis MO, St. Petersburg FL, and Hyderabad, India. We foster a hybrid and remote friendly culture, and all our employee's work locations are based on the needs of the position and determined by the Leadership team. In-office work and activities, if applicable, vary based on the work and team objectives in accordance with Company policies.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications for the role. We believe in the value of diverse perspectives and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive workplace for all.
Accessibility Support
We are dedicated to ensuring our application process is accessible to all candidates. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require a reasonable accommodation with any part of the application and/or interview process, please email [email protected].
Disclaimer
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities, duties, and skills from time to time.
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Zelis Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
Headquarters, 149 Newbury St , , , US, Boston, MA , United States, 02116
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