# Head of LEAF Development

Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living. As a senior technical lead accountable for translating LEAF customer needs to requirements through architecture design, development and deployment into the hospital environment we seek a leader to mobilize multidisciplinary internal and external teams across a matrix organisation to deliver effective, high-quality solutions that meet the needs of our customers to scope and schedule. What will you be doing? - Owns the technical delivery plan and accountable for aligning the product development roadmap with strategic global marketing. - Leads the end-to-end development of LEAF digital and sensor technology product roadmap. - Regular interaction with Executive leaders across R&D, IT, Global Marketing, Regional Sales and Marketing. - Expert within the company in SW and digital organisation, providing technical and organisational leadership across software engineering, front-end and back-end development, systems engineering, V&V, test automation, data science and analytics, cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, interoperability and hospital IT integration. - Broad understanding of evolving

- **Id**: 4264901
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/smithnephew-head-of-leaf-development>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Andover, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T16:31:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T16:31:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4923
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Hybrid work, Parental leave, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Surgical Instruments & Devices, Orthopedic & Spine Implants

## Company

- **Id**: 1768800
- **Name**: Smith+Nephew
- **Domain**: smith-nephew.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/smith-nephew-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 90
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.711
- **Repost share**: 0.056
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 215000
- **Max**: 353188
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 353188

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **FHIR** — Optional: no
- **HL7** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T16:31:16Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 33 · green card filings: 11; Filings 12m: 33

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T18:33:34Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 353188
- **Is top pay**: yes

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