Senior Lead Software Development Engineer

Labcorp is hiring a Senior Lead Software Development Engineer to lead the design, development, implementation, and lifecycle management of complex software solutions. The role provides technical leadership, resolves complex engineering challenges, establishes engineering practices, and collaborates across teams to deliver modernization and strategic technology initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the design, development, implementation, enhancement, and lifecycle management of complex software solutions that support business operations and strategic objectives
• Provides technical leadership and engineering guidance across multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational standards, quality expectations, and technology strategies
• Evaluates business and technical requirements and develops scalable, reliable, maintainable, and high-quality software solutions that support organizational priorities
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex software, integration, performance, and operational challenges through analysis, root cause identification, and implementation of sustainable solutions
• Establishes and promotes engineering standards, technical documentation practices, solution design principles, and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance development effectiveness
• Collaborates with engineering, architecture, product, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to support modernization efforts, strategic initiatives, and successful technology delivery

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 8 or more years of experience in software development, software engineering, application development, technology delivery, or related disciplines
• Current or previous Labcorp experience
• Experience designing, developing, implementing, and supporting complex software solutions across multiple business and technology environments
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, or engineering guidance within software development organizations
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to support strategic, operational, and technology objectives
• Experience supporting enterprise modernization, digital transformation, software platform evolution, or strategic technology initiatives
• Exposure to software architecture, technology strategy development, or enterprise solution delivery activities
• Experience contributing to engineering standards, technical governance practices, or software quality improvement initiatives
• Leads development of complex software solutions that support organizational objectives and technology priorities
• Analyzes and resolves complex software challenges through effective, scalable, and sustainable solutions
• Promotes practices that improve software reliability, maintainability, performance, and operational effectiveness
• Provides expertise, mentorship, and strategic guidance that support successful technology delivery and engineering maturity
• Communicates technical concepts, recommendations, risks, and strategic considerations effectively to technical and business audiences
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Strong foundation in software design principles
• Experience building and working with microservices
• Expertise in Python or high-level, interpreted, object-oriented programming language
• Experience building scalable systems using public cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Experience working with kubernetes, container orchestration, cache systems (e.g. Redis), message queuing systems (e.g. RMQ, SQS), workflow orchestrators (e.g. Nextflow), storage (NAS, Postgres, S3, RDS)
• Experience building agentic AI workflows and multi-agent systems to automate complex solutions
• Experience in building and enhancing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD)
• Experience working with Agile development methodologies and practices
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality maintainable code
• Proven track record of successfully managing complex technical projects spanning multiple teams
• Provides quality feedback on designs written by other engineers
• Create coherent designs with multiple systems that interact across system boundaries
• Roll out and deprecate major features or systems with minimal livesite impact
• Set clear system metrics and achieve them consistently throughout the lifetime of the system
• Designing systems and choosing the right technologies that fit within a larger architecture
• Owns the overall health and engineering quality of multiple systems
• Drive the strategy and implementation for system operations including testing, observability, and monitoring
• Master's Degree