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Essential Functions and Primary Duties
- Set and communicate the enterprise engineering strategy aligned to business objectives, risk posture, and regulatory expectations.
- Lead multiple directors and senior managers; establish operating rhythms, governance, and decision-making across portfolios.
- Own multi-year roadmaps for modernization (cloud adoption, platform engineering, data/AI enablement, legacy rationalization).
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Compliance to ensure delivery readiness and auditability.
- Oversee delivery of large programs across lines of business, ensuring predictable execution, quality, and measurable outcomes.
- Manage budgets, vendor strategy, sourcing, and capacity planning; optimize spend while improving throughput.
- Establish organizational standards for SDLC, DevSecOps, incident management, and operational excellence.
- Drive talent strategy including hiring, succession planning, leadership development, and culture-building.
Skills
- Executive-level leadership in enterprise software engineering, with strong financial/regulatory domain understanding (SOX, SOC, PCI, FFIEC, internal audits).
- Strong architecture fluency across distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven design, and integration patterns.
- Deep experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), platform engineering, CI/CD, observability, and resiliency engineering.
- Proven ability to lead transformations that improve security posture, availability, and delivery velocity.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication; ability to translate strategy into execution.
- Strong financial acumen: budgeting, forecasting, ROI analysis, vendor negotiation, and investment prioritization.
- Organizational design and change management expertise; builds high-performing, inclusive teams.
Achievements
- Successfully delivered enterprise modernization programs (cloud migration, platform re-architecture, or core system modernization) with measurable business impact.
- Improved reliability and operational performance through standardized incident management, SRE practices, and observability.
- Reduced time-to-market by implementing portfolio-level delivery governance, reusable platforms, and automated pipelines.
- Achieved repeatable audit and compliance outcomes across multiple portfolios through stronger controls, documentation, and security practices.
- Built and retained high-performing leadership teams; established succession plans for critical roles.
Innovation
- Champion enterprise patterns and shared platforms (identity, integration, logging/telemetry, CI/CD) to reduce duplication and increase velocity.
- Drive adoption of cloud-native and zero-trust architectures to improve security and scalability.
- Establish data and AI enablement strategies (governance, MLOps, responsible use, automation) aligned to business outcomes.
- Lead proofs-of-concept and portfolio experiments to validate new technologies and de-risk strategic bets.
Coaching & Mentorship
- Coach directors and senior managers on strategy execution, organizational health, and leadership effectiveness.
- Develop leadership pipelines through mentorship, targeted development plans, and succession planning.
- Promote a culture of accountability, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
- Sponsor communities of practice and knowledge-sharing across engineering disciplines.
Preferred Qualifications
- 15+ years in software/technology, with 7+ years leading leaders (managers/directors) and large portfolios.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise systems in regulated and highly audited environments.
- Demonstrated success leading cloud modernization and/or large-scale application transformation.
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s (MBA or MSCS) preferred.
- Strong track record of building inclusive, high-performing teams and leaders.
Minimum Qualifications
- The successful candidate will be credentialed in applicable areas of expertise (i.e. law, accounting, tax, product/services) with at least ten years of relevant experience in the field or industry.
- Must have strengths in leadership and management from a strategic perspective.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, collaborative with internal groups to reach workable solutions, able to anticipate problems, creatively assess alternatives and manage conflicts.