VP, Software Engineering

About the position

The Vice President, Software Engineering is responsible for establishing and leading the strategy, development, and successful execution of enterprise application engineering and integration initiatives ensuring scalable, high-performance, high-quality, and secure technology solutions that align with enterprise goals and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders and product management teams to align technology strategies with business objectives.
• Drive innovative unified strategies and standards to manage the development, release, and maintenance of software applications and integration solutions in alignment with business needs.
• Proactively collaborate with business unit leadership to align and prioritize strategic engineering initiatives and projects ensuring effective resource allocations and budgeting.
• Provide oversight and management of engineering and integration standards and tools that ensure effective design, adherence to best practice, utilization of existing resources, delivery on velocity goals, execution best practices, and scalability to adapt quickly to changing business environments.
• Oversee the software development lifecycle ensuring best practice, productivity, and continuous improvement in agile methodologies and DevOps.
• Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline methodology.
• Direct, manage, and develop geographically dispersed engineering and leadership teams.
• Drive development of strategies for the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise applications and integrations ensuring scalability, security, continuous improvement, and reliability.
• Establish metrics and KPIs to track engineering performance, productivity, deployment times, unplanned activity and root cause remediation, system uptime, and integration efficiency.
• Oversee the management and optimization of system integrations, APIs, and data workflows to ensure seamless interoperability across platforms and services, faster partner onboarding time, and reliable production processing.
• Develop and implement engineering best practices, methodologies, and tools to enhance development efficiency, velocity, and product quality.
• Manage vendor and contractor relationships and expenses to cost effectively optimize application development resources and ensure quality deliverables.
• Collaborate internal and external technology partners, product solution teams, and business leaders to define technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and technology vision.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies and tools to continuously enhance application performance, scalability, reliability, and enterprise technical competitive advantage.
• Establish and enforce security, compliance, and industry best practice standards across all engineering and integration initiatives.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to optimize cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments for application deployment and integration.
• Monitor and manage multi-year budgets, projections, resource allocation, and project timelines to ensure on-time and within-budget delivery.
• Evaluate projects and initiatives for feasibility, cost estimates, and resource availability.
• Drive incident response, troubleshooting, and performance tuning to maintain high availability and reliability of applications and integrations.
• Lead executive leadership discussions related to technical insights, roadmaps, risk assessments, and emerging technology.
• Lead, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering and integration teams to drive technical excellence and innovation.
• Establish shared Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) sustainable processes for production support for tier 2 and tier 3 issues.
• Establish and execute strategies to address technical debt.
• Develop organization and technology roadmaps to optimize technology solution delivery.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
• Take ownership and full responsibility for performance of production applications.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar degree or equivalent combination of coursework and experience in directly-related field required.
• Master's degree preferred.
• 12+ years' of related software engineering experience required.
• 6+ years' in a senior management role with direct responsibility for leadership, budgets, and staffing required.
• Strong working knowledge of business and management principles involved in solution architecture, integration protocols, and database management best practices.
• Expert knowledge of architectural frameworks, methods and tools and the ability to coach, advise, and assist with appropriate strategy and design disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale application development and integration initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in cloud computing, microservices architecture, APIs, and modern software development practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks and capabilities.
• Deep understanding of data integration, middleware, and enterprise system interoperability.
• Strong leadership skills with demonstrated ability to motivate others, influence behavior, and lead by example.
• Current knowledge of software trends with the ability to gain and retain knowledge of emerging technology and applications.
• Ability to identify complex problems, use logic and reasoning to review related information, develop and evaluate options, reach conclusions, and implement solutions.
• Ability and excellent skills in budgeting and forecasting multi-team project requirements.
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills to convey information effectively to a variety of audiences.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of tools.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in the transportation/logistics industry preferred.

Benefits

• Starting rate $260,000; up to $310,000 for highly qualified candidates.
• Annual Incentive Opportunity: 30% of eligible compensation.