Vice President | Operations Development

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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.

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