This is a Director of Development role for a leading healthcare benefits management and pharmacy benefits management with 30 years of experience and know-how, offering support to insurance companies, mutual funds, large employer schemes and pharmacies with highly advanced tools and services. Our client provides innovative state-of-the-art solutions and comprehensive services to manage its clients’ complex needs.
Manages the relationship between development teams and upper management, estimate project budgets, schedule project timelines, arrange for resources and also help in solving technical problems as and when needed.
Duties & Responsibilities
Proficient in handling the most complex of technical development concepts, latest software tools and technologies, strong database concepts and designing techniques
Ability to communicate effectively with development teams and clients
Understand project requirements, coordinate with resources and direct the projects in the right direction in a timely manner
Provide a software development plan that meets the future needs of our clients and markets, based on the state of the art technologies
Evolve the existing software system applications and architecture in various areas as needed
Help developers resolve both technical problems as well as human resources issues
Monitor individual employees’ performance
Provide direction and technical expertise in design, development and systems integration
Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development
Skills/Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Must have at least 10 years’ experience working through the design, development and delivering software products
Strong leadership and problem solving skills
Strong understanding of the software development life cycle
Willingness to dive into software environment and technical issues
Strong organizational skills with excellent attention to details
Background in health insurance is a plus
Well organized, excellent communication skills in English and Arabic, French is a plus
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