Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.
At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.
As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.
Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.
The Role
As the Director of Engineering for Veeva Compass, you’ll lead the development team for our full product line of health data products. Products range from mature and established to Early Adopter.
You’ll lead the development team, composed of both first-line managers and direct report individual contributors, responsible for platform engineering, front-end engineering, data science developers, and QA. You’ll work with a cross-functional team of product managers, analytics, data scientists, and devops focused on high quality data products.
You’re comfortable leading a team responsible for a complex health data platform leveraging AWS, Spark, EMR, Java, and Rust, providing our life sciences customers with HIPAA compliant deidentified data, delivered the fastest in the industry. You’re excited to take on the challenge of managing and scaling billions of rows of transactional data. You have a lens for the future of bringing use case driven AI enhancements to our workflows and customers.
What You’ll Do
- Lead a high performing development team, including first line managers ranging across software engineers, architects, data engineers, front-end developers and QA
- Serve as the hands-on technical leader, diving into dev reviews, driving architectural discussions, and digging in to help continuously improve how we work
- Lead with an enterprise product approach
- Champion high standards for code and architecture using Spark and AWS
- Support production system reliability through investigation of complex issues and incorporation of findings into engineering improvements
- Be a trusted partner for senior management to determine best solutions, help drive alignment and implement decisions throughout your team
- Primarily remote with periodic coworking days in the Toronto office - a couple days per quarter
Requirements
- 5+ years leading engineering teams, including first line managers
- 10+ years of enterprise software development
- Proven experience in architecting and delivering Big Data solutions in a fully managed cloud data warehouse
- Experience in driving technical architecture decisions and owning the full development process for external-facing, scalable data products
- Experience hiring, developing, and leading high-performing engineers
Requirements
- Background in Life Sciences or Healthcare data
- Experience leading development for a prescription and medical claims health data enterprise product
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or information systems
Perks & Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
- PTO and company-paid holidays
- Retirement programs
- 1% charitable giving program
Compensation
- Base pay: $225,000 - $300,000 CAD
- The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.
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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.
Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].
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