
Director, Solutions – Forward Deployed Engineering
Zus Health
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own the technical delivery lifecycle following contract signature through production deployment and early adoption
- Lead and grow a team of Solutions Engineers and Forward Deployed Engineers
- Develop career paths, performance expectations, and development plans for the team to ensure excellent execution of goals
- Ensure consistent, high-quality execution across multiple concurrent enterprise implementations
- Establish best practices for onboarding, implementation, integration, and go-live readiness
- Set customers up for success across multiple different high priority use cases
- Ensure customers achieve rapid time-to-value from the Zus platform
- Personally engage on strategic or technically complex customer deployments
- Guide integrations involving FHIR, HL7, CCD, APIs, SFTP pipelines, and EHR platforms
- Troubleshoot complex interoperability and data pipeline issues
- Work directly with engineering teams to deploy and operationalize Zus products
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer technical and operational stakeholders
- Support customers in building production-grade applications and workflows on top of Zus APIs
- Help customers operationalize clinical and operational data across care delivery workflows
- Lead the development of reference architectures and deployment patterns
- Identify integration opportunities that accelerate product adoption and expansion
- Oversee technical onboarding and training programs for new customers
- Enable customer engineering and product teams to effectively build on the Zus platform
- Develop documentation, workshops, and enablement resources for technical users
- Lead the adoption of AI tools and automation frameworks across the delivery organization
- Identify opportunities to automate manual implementation work using LLMs, scripting, and developer tooling
- Develop reusable automation patterns for all parts of the Zus ecosystem
- Help customers leverage Zus data to power AI-enabled workflows and analytics applications
- Translate customer implementation patterns into platform improvement
- Participate in technical discussions to find reusable integration patterns that can be embedded directly into the Zus platform
- Communicate customer needs to the Product & Engineering teams
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in technical implementation, solutions engineering, systems integration, or professional services leadership, preferably in healthtech, SaaS, or enterprise software
- Proven experience leading customer-facing teams and scaling implementation or professional services functions
- Deep expertise in healthcare data interoperability, including FHIR, HL7, CCD, and EHR integrations
- Strong understanding of APIs, data ingestion pipelines (ETL, JSON, CSV), and modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake)
- Experience designing scalable implementation frameworks and reusable integration patterns
- Familiarity with secure environments and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, SOC 2)
- Executive presence and the ability to build trust with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong strategic thinking paired with a willingness to dive into complex technical or delivery challenges when needed
- A self-starter mindset and comfort operating in a fast-paced, evolving startup environment
- Passion for improving healthcare through better access to and use of data
- Willingness to travel up to ~25% for customer engagements, industry events, and company meetings
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field (advanced degree a plus)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team a combination of cash and equity
- Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401k with a match, unlimited PTO
- Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
solutions engineeringsystems integrationhealthcare data interoperabilityFHIRHL7CCDEHR integrationsAPIsdata ingestion pipelinesETL
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic thinkingcommunicationtrust buildingself-starter mindsetproblem-solvingteam developmentcustomer engagementadaptabilitycollaboration
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeadvanced degreeHIPAA complianceSOC 2 compliance