Technical Manager (Implementations & Delivery) - Remote US

The Technical Implementation Manager is a hands-on people leader responsible for building, mentoring, and leading a team of Technical Implementation Leads and Software Developers delivering complex, customer-facing healthcare interoperability solutions. This role blends technical leadership with people management, ensuring successful project delivery while fostering the growth, performance, and engagement of a high-performing technical team.

The successful candidate will have a strong Java development background and be comfortable providing technical guidance throughout the implementation lifecycle. They will oversee implementation planning, solution design, estimation, technical execution, troubleshooting, testing, documentation, and operational readiness, while remaining actively involved in resolving complex technical challenges and supporting customer escalations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of Technical Implementation Leads and Software Developers, fostering technical excellence while delivering complex, customer-facing healthcare interoperability implementations and strategic initiatives.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership throughout the implementation lifecycle, including discovery, solution architecture, estimation, implementation planning, development, testing, deployment, operational readiness, and post-go-live support.
• Leverage deep technical expertise in Java, HL7 FHIR, HL7 v2, CDA/CCDA, REST APIs, SQL, data mapping, and enterprise integration patterns to guide solution design, implementation, troubleshooting, and technical decision-making.
• Participate in customer-facing technical discussions, escalations, root cause analysis, mitigation planning, writing executive summaries, and implementation troubleshooting activities.
• Collaborate closely with Product, QA, CloudOps, Support, Architecture, Agile Leads, and Customer Success teams to deliver scalable and supportable customer solutions.
• Develop and maintain reusable implementation assets including buildbooks, implementation playbooks, troubleshooting guides, reference architectures, and solution/problem pattern libraries.
• Identify recurring implementation challenges, operational gaps, customer pain points, and technical risks and translate them into actionable process improvements, feature requests, and bug reports.
• Drive implementation quality through technical reviews, implementation standards, testing practices, peer mentorship, and reduction of delivery defects and rework.
• Mentor, guide, and support Technical Implementation Leads and Software Developers through technical coaching, prioritization guidance, workload management, and professional development.
• Ensure implementation work is properly documented through Jira, technical documentation, testing evidence, operational handover materials, and implementation standards.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend technologies, implementation patterns, and operational improvements for new and existing customer solutions and platform capabilities.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in software development, technical implementations, healthcare interoperability, clinical informatics, or other senior-level technical delivery roles, with a proven track record of leading complex enterprise implementations.
• 3+ years of experience leading, mentoring, and managing technical teams, with demonstrated success developing high-performing Technical Leads, Software Developers, or Implementation Engineers.
• Strong hands-on technical expertise across the software implementation lifecycle, including customer discovery, solution architecture, estimation, Java development, implementation planning, technical troubleshooting, testing, deployment, and operational readiness.
• Expertise in Java, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, monitoring and observability, healthcare platform deployments, and modern cloud implementation practices.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex customer-facing implementation, integration, data ingestion, scalability, performance, infrastructure, deployment, and operational issues within enterprise software environments.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise integrations using HL7 FHIR, HL7 v2, CDA/CCDA, REST APIs, SQL, data mapping, validation frameworks, and interoperability best practices.
• Strong experience working with relational and distributed database technologies, including PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, or other enterprise database platforms.
• Deep understanding of software development and implementation lifecycle management, including solution design, estimation, APIs, source control, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, build processes, testing strategies, deployment coordination, release management, and version control.
• Strong healthcare industry experience, including payer, provider, interoperability, terminology services, CMS initiatives, or other regulated healthcare implementation programs.
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, organizational, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences while confidently leading customer discussions, executive presentations, technical workshops, and high-priority escalations.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Informatics, information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience.

Additional Information:

Smile discloses that artificial intelligence (AI) may be used in portions of the recruitment and selection process, such as resume screening or application assessment. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by qualified human decision-makers, and AI tools are used to support — not replace — fair and equitable hiring practices. 
This position is a replacement role, created to support Smile’s continued growth and commitment.