Team Lead, Engineering - Time & Attendance

Team Lead, Engineering – Time & Attendance 
FLSA: Exempt – Professional
EEOC Job Class – EEO-1 Category 2
Department: Engineering 
Reports To: Senior Manager, Engineering 
Position Purpose
At Viventium + Apploi, we are proud to serve the people and organizations powering the healthcare workforce. 
Our connected Hire and HCM solutions help clients attract, hire, onboard, manage, pay, and support the essential 
employees who care for our communities. The Time & Attendance engineering team builds the technology that 
helps healthcare organizations accurately capture worked time, support payroll processes, and navigate complex 
workforce requirements.
The Team Lead, Engineering – Time & Attendance is a hands-on technical and people leader accountable for the 
delivery, quality, reliability, and continued evolution of Viventium’s Time & Attendance platform. This role leads a 
product area spanning hardware kiosk experiences, mobile clocking with geolocation and geofencing, managerfacing web applications, and cloud services built with React Native, React, Angular, .NET Framework, modern 
.NET, and Microsoft Azure.
This individual combines strong engineering judgment, active technical contribution, thoughtful people 
leadership, and cross-functional partnership. The Team Lead guides architecture and modernization decisions, 
develops engineers, strengthens delivery practices, and helps the team solve complex time, scheduling, payroll, 
and compliance challenges without losing sight of the people who depend on every accurate punch and paycheck.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape a high-impact healthcare workforce product, influence engineering 
practices across Viventium + Apploi, and build a team culture grounded in ownership, craftsmanship, 
collaboration, continuous learning, and meaningful recognition.
Key Objectives
• Lead the Time & Attendance engineering team in delivering secure, reliable, scalable, and high-quality 
product experiences.
• Own technical direction and execution across kiosk, mobile, web, backend, and cloud services while 
supporting thoughtful platform modernization.
• Build an accountable, collaborative, and high-performing team through clear expectations, regular 
coaching, meaningful feedback, and growth opportunities.
• Partner closely with Product, Quality Assurance, Architecture, Security, and other stakeholders to 
translate priorities into well-defined, achievable work.
• Use delivery, quality, and reliability measures to strengthen predictability, surface risk early, and 
continuously improve team performance.
• Protect production health and the accuracy of Time & Attendance data that supports payroll processing 
and workforce compliance.
• Advance an AI-enabled software development lifecycle that improves engineering effectiveness while 
maintaining appropriate quality, security, and review standards.
• Promote strong documentation, knowledge sharing, and sustainable system ownership across the team.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
Engineering Leadership and Delivery
• Lead end-to-end delivery for the Time & Attendance engineering team, from planning and technical 
design through development, testing, release, and production support.
• Establish clear priorities, remove blockers, manage dependencies, and create transparency around 
delivery commitments, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Balance near-term roadmap delivery with platform stability, maintainability, security, technical debt 
reduction, and long-term system health.
• Use team-level measures, including throughput, cycle time, escaped defects, change failure rate, and 
planned-versus-completed work, to identify constraints and guide improvement.
• Run a lightweight, disciplined delivery cadence that keeps work appropriately defined, visible, testable, 
and divided into manageable increments.
• Partner with Product and Quality Assurance to maintain a clear, prioritized backlog and align delivery 
expectations with business and client needs.
Technical Direction and Platform Modernization
• Guide technical architecture and the modernization roadmap for Time & Attendance in partnership with 
engineering and architecture leadership.
• Make and clearly communicate sound technical decisions and tradeoffs across kiosk, mobile, web, 
backend, data, integration, and cloud components.
• Review designs, code, and implementation approaches to reinforce correctness, security, reliability, 
performance, maintainability, and alignment with broader engineering standards.
• Remain actively engaged in development and the team’s most complex technical challenges while 
empowering engineers to retain ownership of their work.
• Guide the design and operation of production services on Microsoft Azure, including Infrastructure as 
Code, observability, safe release practices, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Advance pragmatic use of AI across design, coding, testing, documentation, and review while maintaining 
appropriate human judgment, security controls, and quality standards.
• Identify, prioritize, and manage technical risk, architectural constraints, and technical debt.
People Leadership and Team Development
• Lead, mentor, and support engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, timely feedback, coaching, 
performance discussions, and clear expectations.
• Create meaningful development opportunities through stretch assignments, technical ownership, pairing, 
knowledge sharing, and exposure to new technologies and business domains.
• Build an inclusive, collaborative, accountable, and positive team environment where employees can raise 
concerns, challenge ideas respectfully, and learn from outcomes.
• Recognize meaningful contributions and reinforce a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, continuous 
improvement, and shared success.
• Support workforce planning, interviewing, selection, onboarding, and retention activities for the team in 
partnership with leadership and People resources.
• Address performance, workload, or team health concerns promptly, consistently, and in alignment with 
Company practices.
Product, Domain, and Production Ownership
• Develop deep knowledge of Time & Attendance workflows, including kiosk and mobile clocking, 
geolocation and geofencing, breaks, attestations, role switching, scheduling alignment, timecard 
management, overtime, and related payroll and compliance considerations.
• Own engineering outcomes across development, test, release, and production environments for assigned 
Time & Attendance product areas.
• Partner with Product to translate client, market, operational, and compliance needs into feasible technical 
approaches and sequenced delivery plans.
• Maintain accountability for production stability and the accuracy, traceability, and reliability of workedtime data that flows into payroll and reporting processes.
• Coordinate incident response, investigation, remediation, and follow-through for production issues within 
the product area.
• Identify product, workflow, technical, or operational risks early and communicate impact, options, and 
recommendations to the appropriate stakeholders.
Cross-Functional Collaboration, Documentation, and Continuous Improvement
• Collaborate with Product, Quality Assurance, Architecture, Security, Support, Implementation, Client 
Success, Payroll, and other partners to deliver a connected Viventium + Apploi experience.
• Strengthen feedback loops across teams so requirements, constraints, dependencies, and risks surface 
early and decisions are documented clearly.
• Ensure critical system architecture, domain knowledge, operational procedures, technical decisions, and 
support information are current and accessible.
• Reduce dependency on individual team members through documentation, pairing, cross-training, and 
shared ownership.
• Continuously evaluate team processes and engineering practices, measure whether changes improve 
outcomes, and avoid unnecessary process burden.
• Stay informed about relevant engineering practices, Microsoft Azure capabilities, AI-assisted development 
methods, healthcare workforce technology, and applicable security and compliance expectations.
• All other duties, as assigned.
The essential functions listed above are representative of the primary duties required. Employees must be able 
to perform these functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. The Company 
reserves the right to modify the role as needed. Employment is at-will and may be terminated at any time with 
or without cause or notice, in accordance with applicable law.
Work Environment & Physical Requirements
• Ability to sit, stand, and/or work at a computer for extended periods.
• Ability to communicate effectively via phone, video, and written channels.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, technical decisions, projects, and deadlines in a fast-paced, evolving 
environment.
• Ability to participate in production support, incident response, or scheduled release activities outside 
standard business hours when business needs require.
• Travel may be required periodically for client meetings, team meetings, or business needs.
Reasonable accommodations will be provided in accordance with applicable law.
Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)
Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical discipline preferred, or 
equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
Minimum Qualifications
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading engineers with direct responsibility 
for one-on-one meetings, feedback, coaching, and performance discussions.
• Strong hands-on experience with C# and .NET, including .NET Framework and .NET Core or modern 
.NET.
• Hands-on experience with Angular and/or React in enterprise web application environments.
• Experience building or leading the development of mobile or native applications using React Native, 
Android, or comparable technologies.
• Experience building and operating production systems on Microsoft Azure, including Infrastructure as 
Code practices using Bicep, Terraform, or comparable tools.
• Demonstrated success delivering software through Agile or Scrum practices, CI/CD, automated testing, 
code review, and measurable delivery improvement.
• Practical experience with observability, release management, production support, incident response, rootcause analysis, and corrective-action follow-through.
• Ability to make and communicate sound technical tradeoffs, resolve disagreement constructively, and 
align technical and business stakeholders.
• Leadership style grounded in empathy, transparency, accountability, inclusion, and active coaching.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt effectively as Viventium + Apploi continues to grow and 
integrate.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with Time & Attendance, workforce management, scheduling, payroll, or HCM software.
• Experience supporting healthcare workforce use cases, including complex staffing models, overtime rules, 
agency labor, or Payroll-Based Journal reporting.
• Experience with device-based applications, kiosk mode, managed device fleets, mobile device 
management, geolocation, or geofencing capabilities.
• Experience with facial-recognition technologies, including Azure AI Face or management of face 
collections.
• Experience modernizing legacy .NET applications through incremental migration to modern .NET and 
cloud-native services.
• Experience with SQL Server, NoSQL databases, message queues, event-driven architectures, APIs, and 
external vendor integrations.
• Experience leading engineering teams through organizational growth, platform integration, 
modernization, or significant product change.
• Familiarity with responsible AI, secure software development, privacy-by-design, and healthcare or 
payroll technology environments.
Success Profile (What Good Looks Like in 12 Months)
• Demonstrates strong command of the Time & Attendance domain and systems and can make, explain, 
and defend key technical decisions.
• Builds a team environment where every engineer has clear expectations, regular coaching, meaningful 
feedback, and an understood development path.
• Establishes and uses delivery, quality, and reliability measures to improve predictability, transparency, 
and decision-making with Product and Engineering partners.
• Delivers meaningful product and technical improvements while maintaining appropriate attention to 
production health, security, and customer impact.
• Creates clear ownership across development, testing, release, and production support for assigned Time & 
Attendance product areas.
• Makes technical decisions that are documented, maintainable, aligned with engineering standards, and 
supportive of the modernization roadmap.
• Reduces avoidable operational risk through stronger observability, documentation, automated testing, 
safe releases, and proactive incident follow-through.
• Develops engineers who demonstrate increasing ownership, sound judgment, collaboration, and technical 
capability.
• Contributes positively to engineering consistency, knowledge sharing, AI-enabled development practices, 
and the broader Viventium + Apploi technology organization.
Compensation & Pay Transparency
• Base Salary Range: $160,000 - $187,500 per year.
• This range reflects the expected base salary for this position and is aligned with market data and internal 
equity considerations.
• Individual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and 
geographic location.
• This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus or other incentive compensation, in accordance with 
Company plans.
• Viventium + Apploi is committed to maintaining competitive, equitable, and transparent compensation 
practices in compliance with all applicable laws