Director Engineering SaaS & Framework (f/m/d)
Our client is one of the leading software providers in the healthcare sector, operating internationally with several thousand employees. The company develops business-critical software solutions that help make healthcare processes more efficient, secure, and future-ready.
For a strategically important leadership role, we are looking for an experienced engineering leader who can take responsibility for a large SaaS product and platform environment in the ambulatory healthcare domain.
The role combines executive-level engineering leadership, SaaS transformation, regulatory responsibility, AI adoption, and platform strategy.
Your Impact
- You take end-to-end responsibility for a large, distributed engineering organization that develops ambulatory SaaS solutions as well as shared framework modules used across multiple healthcare software products.
- Together with executive leadership, product management, and technology stakeholders, you define and drive the strategic product and technology roadmap for a cloud-based ambulatory software portfolio.
- You ensure that regulatory requirements in the healthcare environment — including medical device regulations, audits, certifications, and compliance standards — are embedded into product development, delivery, and operations.
- You lead senior leaders and cross-functional engineering teams, continuously improving scalability, quality, delivery performance, AI maturity, and innovation speed across products and platforms.
- You represent the domain internally and externally, build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, and help position the company as a leading SaaS provider in the Health-IT market.
Your Profile
- You bring long-standing leadership experience at Director, VP, CTO, or comparable level in SaaS product development, ideally with responsibility for large, distributed engineering organizations and complex product portfolios.
- You have a strong academic background with a completed university degree, preferably in computer science, medical informatics, engineering, or a comparable technical field.
- You have deep expertise in cloud architectures, SaaS platforms, modern DevOps practices, reliability engineering, and scalable product development.
- Experience with healthcare software, regulated environments, medical device requirements, audits, or certifications is a strong advantage.
- You have a proven track record of driving AI adoption within engineering organizations — ideally with practical exposure to agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or comparable solutions, including AI agents, skills, workflows, engineering pipelines, harnesses, and context engineering at scale.
- You communicate confidently in English and German and combine strategic thinking with strong execution, entrepreneurial drive, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to guide complex organizations through transformation.
Why this role is exciting
You will shape a strategically important SaaS and platform domain in the healthcare sector.
You will lead a large, distributed engineering organization with significant impact on product quality, scalability, regulatory readiness, and innovation.
You will work at the intersection of cloud transformation, AI-enabled engineering, healthcare software, and executive technology leadership.
You will have the opportunity to influence the future of digital healthcare and help build software that makes a real difference for users, patients, and healthcare professionals.
Interested?
If this sounds like the right next step for you, we look forward to hearing from you. Please send us your CV or LinkedIn profile — we are happy to arrange a confidential first conversation.
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