Avp, Technology Lead, Health Jobs in Waterloo, Ontario
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Waterloo, Ontario
About the role
Who We Are
Verily Health is a data platform and technology company purpose-built to power AI-enabled precision health solutions that accelerate research and improve care for individuals and communities. Uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology, data science, and healthcare, Verily transforms multimodal health data into insights, models, and actions that make healthcare more personalized, predictive, and precise.
Responsibilities
- Own the vision, roadmap, execution, and technical direction for a broad functional area, setting priorities for the team.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to define technical specs, oversee design, scope projects, and drive deliverables.
- Lead and review major software designs, advocate for innovative, forward-looking technical strategies, and improve development processes.
- Ensure compliance by working closely with privacy, security, and quality teams, while managing project priorities and deadlines independently.
- Mentor team members on design techniques, coding standards, and support their technical growth.
- Write code and review code from other software developers.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of software development experience with expertise in a general-purpose programming language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, C++, etc.).
- Proven leadership in guiding project teams and setting technical direction.
- Deep knowledge in a technical domain and experience designing distributed systems.
- Expertise building and maintaining a data storage layer that can handle thousands to tens-of-thousands of QPS.
- Demonstrated experience navigating and operating within a regulated industry, such as healthcare or finance.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), DevOps tools (GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Backstage).
- Strong written communication for design/architecture documentation.
- Experience working with healthcare data and have familiarity with healthcare data formats (HL7, FHIR, OMOP)
Preferred qualifications
- Extensive experience working with the FHIR standard
- Working experience with Go
- Deep knowledge of Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes.
- Experience with microservices, software delivery platforms, DevSecOps, continuous integration, and release management processes
- Passionate about good software development practices and building scalable systems
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About Verily
Verily is an Alphabet company combining a data-driven, people-first approach to bring the promise of precision health to everyone, every day. We are focused on generating and applying evidence from a wide variety of sources to change the way people manage their health and the way healthcare is delivered - shifting the paradigm from “one size fits all” medicine to one focused on a more comprehensive view of the individual that leads to a more personalized path forward. For more information, please visit verily.com.
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