Director, Software Engineering

About The Opportunity 

At Medifast, our team members are relentless in our mission of driving Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a Time®. When you join Medifast, you become part of a dynamic, fast-growing community of highly motivated, like-hearted people who share a passion for promoting health and wellness. Just as OPTAVIA Coaches inspire Clients to reach their personal wellness goals, at Medifast, we inspire each other to bring our best to work each day to further our shared mission. If you want to build a rewarding career that makes lives better on a daily basis, Medifast may be the perfect place for you.

Overview Of Position

The Director of Software Engineering will own and deliver Medifast Hybrid Cloud and DevSecOps transformation strategy driving towards secure, modern, scalable, reliable platform services. You will help shape and optimize cloud workloads for scalable operations around the world. This position is responsible for supporting multiple cloud fabric and infrastructure workloads (Vmware, AWS, Oracle, Azure). You will apply your Software Engineering mindset to drive the vision for a fully automated supply chain organization. You will bring significant business acumen and proven people and engineering leadership skills as well.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and drive multi cloud, network and telecom transformation strategies and roadmaps from analysis of current state, business drivers, target state and engineering opportunities.
• Ensure multi-cloud infrastructure and network architecture is secure, modern, scalable, economical, and reliable and right sized for all locations/functions/business units.
• Manage configurations, systems integrations of SaaS services and cloud infrastructure and foster GitOps practices and culture.
• Work collaboratively across IT teams to ensure security, cloud services, software version control and binary repositories, IaC libraries are well managed, assuring that all systems and configurations are compliant with relevant policies and standards.
• Partner with the Information Security (IS) team on the implementation of preventive/corrective measures based on the threat landscape around networking and hybrid cloud workloads. Medifast has workloads across AWS, Oracle, Azure and Vmware cloud environments.
• Act as liaison to the IS team about all cloud, infrastructure, network security status, policies, and procedures. Support IS in external, internal corporate or divisional audits providing consultancy, knowledge and corrective action plans as required.
• Evaluate and provide input to leadership on new cloud, network & security technologies to enhance capabilities of our Software Engineering and IT operations.
• Designs, builds, tests, and implements new and leading-edge technologies and capabilities to meet business requirements. Prioritizes telecommunications initiatives and coordinates the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technologies. Develops and maintains key components of a rolling two-year plan.
• Manages vendor relationships (collaborating as needed with other stakeholders) to maximize value from strategic partnerships and to efficiently deliver service in non-strategic areas.
• Lead cross-functional and diverse engineering team.
• Develops annual capital and operating budgets for telecommunications and cloud infrastructure investments and operational objectives.
• Develops, tracks and controls portions of the Information Technology annual operating and capital budgets for purchasing, staffing, and operations.
• Cloud/Network/Cybersecurity Certifications is a plus.

Experience And Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, IT, or Engineering
• 5+ years of technical experience and 3+ year of people leadership Experience should include working with C, C++ or C#, Java, Python; Databases (SQL & NoSQL) WPF, WCF, SPA, Unity, Dependency Injection, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, ETL, Real Time messaging Platform like Kafka etc.
• Broad and deep technology knowledge across multiple technologies domains and platforms supporting SD WAN - Software Defined Network, Infrastructure as Code, Active Directory Services, Secrets and credentials management, Network Security, Cloud Technologies, DevSecOps practices, Data Center Technologies, Infrastructure/Platform Security, End user technologies, Disaster Recovery and High availability.
• Expertise in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS application platforms and systems (i.e AWS, Vmware, PaloAlto, Okta, Splunk, NewRelic, Sailpoint..)
• Expertise in enterprise-grade network and managing hybrid interconnected systems (SaaS+PaaS) with passion to drive towards GitOps standards.
• Proven capacity to set and meet short and long-term objectives for individuals and entire departments.
• Lead and mentor a global team of talented and motivated engineers; Hire bar raising talent as the team expands.
• Must perform well under tight deadlines and be able to adapt to changing priorities quickly and effectively.
• Outstanding verbal, written and interpersonal communication capabilities

At Medifast, Relationships Are At The Center Of What We Do! 

We thrive by elevating our connections with one another as well as with our Coaches & Clients. We believe that everyone has the potential to be OUTSTANDING. The Medifast culture is built on seven core values: integrity, courage, teaming, accountability, empowerment, partnership and diversity. These values aren’t just words on a page – they are celebrated as a core part of the company’s philosophy.

We Lead By…

Mastering Relationships: We build trust, promote collaboration and we are reliable.

Being innovative: We strive to improve things in our areas of influence; test, refine and expand within the business strategy; and reach beyond real and perceived boundaries.

Simplifying: We are committed to making things measurable, repeatable and scalable; focusing on outcomes not activities; and eliminating complexity to increase focus.

Anticipating: We predict long-term business and organizational needs; challenge assumptions; and expect and prepare for the unexpected.

About Medifast®:

Medifast (NYSE: MED) is the health and wellness company known for its habit-based and coach-guided lifestyle solution OPTAVIA®, which provides people with a simple, yet comprehensive approach to help them achieve lasting optimal health and wellbeing. OPTAVIA's lifestyle plans deliver clinically proven health benefits as well as evidence-based tools, including scientifically developed products and a framework for habit creation reinforced by independent Coaches and Community support. As a physician-founded company with a 40+ year history, Medifast is a leader in the U.S. weight management industry. Through a collaboration with the national virtual primary care provider LifeMD, OPTAVIA customers have access to board-certified affiliated clinicians and medications, such as GLP-1s, that support treatment plans for obesity and other health conditions. The company continues to innovate and build upon its scientific and clinical heritage to fulfill its mission of offering the world Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a Time®. Medifast was recognized in 2023 by Financial Times as one of The Americas' Fastest Growing Companies and in 2022 as one of America's Best Mid-Sized Companies by Forbes. For more information, visit MedifastInc.com and OPTAVIA.com and follow @Medifast on X.

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