Overview
At SCA Health, we believe health care is about people - the patients we serve, the physicians we support and the teammates who push us forward. Behind every successful facility, procedure or innovation is a team of 15,000+ professionals working together, learning from each other and living out the mission, vision and values that define our organization.
As part of Optum, SCA Health is redefining specialty care by developing more accessible, patient-centered practice solutions for a network of more than 370 ambulatory surgical centers, over 400 specialty physician practice clinics and numerous labs and surgical hospitals. Our work spans a broad spectrum of services, all designed to support physicians, health systems and employers in delivering efficient, value-based care to patients without compromising quality or autonomy.
What sets SCA Health apart isn't just what we do, it's how we do it. Each decision we make is rooted in seven core values:
Our values aren't empty words - they inform our attitudes, actions and culture. At SCA Health, your work directly impacts patients, physicians and communities. Here, you'll find opportunities to build your career alongside a team that values your expertise, invests in your success, and shares a common mission to care for patients, serve physicians and improve health care in America.
At SCA Health, we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support your health, well-being, and financial future. Our offerings include medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k plan with company match, paid time off, life and disability insurance, and more. Please visit, https://careers.sca.health/why-sca, to learn more about our benefits.
Your ideas should inspire change. If you join our team, they will.
Responsibilities
The Technical Lead drives the technical direction of our engineering team, ensuring the delivery and ongoing support of scalable, high quality, and reliable software solutions. This role blends hands on engineering, architecture, leadership, and production support ownership, guiding developers through the full lifecycle, from design and build to deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence.
This position is ideal for someone passionate about building and supporting customer‑facing applications in a highly available, production‑ready environment. The Technical Lead leverages Agile principles, DevOps practices, modern cloud‑native technologies, and AI‑enabled capabilities to improve developer productivity, system reliability, operational efficiency, and service quality. A strong problem solver who balances technical depth with business awareness and responsible AI adoption will thrive in this role.
Key Responsibilities
The Technical Lead will have a broad set of responsibilities including, but not limited to, the following:
Technical Leadership & Delivery
Cross Functional Collaboration
Collaborate with App dev, PMO, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to:
Define and maintain a technically feasible roadmap
Scope, design, and deliver solutions addressing business needs
Balance feature delivery with stability and supportability
Build strong relationships across teams, creating and maintaining trust with business Stakeholders
Communicate technical and AI‑related concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
People & Process Leadership
Qualifications
Education
Experience
2+ years of proven success as a Technical Lead in application development space
8+ years of experience with Microsoft stack technologies:
NET/ .NET Core, C#, Visual Studio, Entity Framework, SQL Server
Front end technologies:
JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS
Angular (v18), React (v16)
Cloud & DevOps:
Azure services (Functions, Service Bus, Key Vault, etc.) or equivalent
Azure DevOps
CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
Strong experience building component based, responsive web applications.
Experience supporting enterprise scale production systems, preferably in regulated industries (Healthcare preferred).
Experience with:
Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
Transactional databases and caching strategies
Test driven development, unit/integration testing
Public and internal APIs, integration frameworks
Microservices and event driven architectures
Performance tuning and troubleshooting production systems
Secure software development practices
Demonstrated ability to lead and influence without authority.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Strong balance of technical depth, operational mindset, and business priorities.
Experience with AI assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI, AI based code quality or observability tools).
Preferred / Nice to Have Qualifications
USD $135,000.00/Yr. USD $150,000.00/Yr.
Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA) partners with leading physicians, hospitals and health systems to develop and implement surgical services strategies across the country. With approximately 5,000 teammates, SCA operates more than 185 surgical facilities, including ambulatory surgery centers, surgical hospitals, and hospital surgery departments, in partnership with approximately 2,000 physicians and in affiliation with 45+ health systems.
At SCA, we put Clinical First. Our mission is to care for our patients, serve our physicians and improve healthcare in America by offering clinical systems, service line growth strategies, benchmarking processes, and efficiency programs that create measurable advantage for surgical facilities—clinically, operationally and financially.
An industry leader, SCA recently created industry-wide clinical outcomes reporting procedures, using metrics endorsed by the National Quality Forum. All SCA facilities pursue accreditation through The Joint Commission (TJC), the American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (AAASC) or the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
Our facilities focus on short-term care and primarily provide non-emergency surgical procedures in many specialties, including orthopaedics, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, pain management, and otolaryngology, among others. Our facilities provide physicians with the logistics and support staff necessary to perform these procedures.
SCA is deeply committed to our core values of clinical quality, integrity, service excellence, teamwork, accountability and continuous improvement.