Vice President, Engineering – EPM

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead a global engineering team across various EPM product lines.

• Take ownership of the development, deployment, and operation of the EPM portfolio.

• Create and implement modernization strategies for legacy applications.

• Incrementally sequence modernization efforts while safeguarding production customers.

• Minimize technical debt through measurable objectives and executive reporting.

• Plan and carry out customer migrations from on-premise and single-tenant environments.

• Oversee the design and delivery of cloud-native, multi-tenant services.

• Develop shared platform capabilities such as identity management, observability, metering, tenant provisioning, and self-service environments.

• Ensure SaaS operational excellence, encompassing SLOs, error budgets, on-call management, incident response, capacity planning, cost efficiency, and disaster recovery.

• Integrate security, privacy, and compliance into architecture and delivery processes.

• Advocate for the adoption of an agentic software development lifecycle.

• Establish safeguards for AI-generated modifications, including human review, testing, evaluation, provenance, traceability, and secure data management.

• Redesign engineering workflows, roles, and skill sets for effective agentic delivery.

• Collaborate with Product teams to provide reliable customer-facing AI capabilities for finance users.

• Develop foundational AI production elements such as model and prompt management, retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring.

• Implement responsible-AI practices, focusing on explainability, auditability, tenant isolation, and human-in-the-loop controls.

• Own DORA outcomes and set quarterly improvement targets across product lines.

• Implement test automation, continuous integration, trunk-based development, feature flags, and progressive delivery strategies.

• Enhance reliability through SLOs, error budgets, and blameless post-incident reviews.

• Proactively address security by implementing automated scanning, dependency management, vulnerability management, and secure-by-default pipelines.

• Report on engineering, quality, operations, and system performance to executive management.

• Lead the recruitment, mentoring, and development of high-performing teams across diverse disciplines and geographical locations.

• Collaborate with architects, product managers, engineering managers, and developers to set technical direction.

• Drive engineering roadmaps, operational plans, and delivery commitments within an Agile/Lean framework.

• Manage departmental budgets and resources, including employees, contractors, and suppliers.

• Negotiate vendor contracts and statements of work.

• Foster a culture of ownership, psychological safety, continuous improvement, and customer orientation.

• Evolve software development practices, tools, reporting, and methodologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Previous experience as a Vice President of Engineering.

• Over 10 years of progressive engineering leadership experience.

• More than 10 years of experience in software development.

• At least 5 years of experience building and operating cloud products using Java, C#, and JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Over 7 years of experience leading multiple Agile teams and programs.

• Expert knowledge of Agile and Lean methodologies.

• More than 5 years of experience driving full DevOps and continuous delivery initiatives.

• Proven track record of enhancing DORA metrics and software quality at scale.

• At least 3 years of experience managing global engineering teams and suppliers across various products.

• Experience with teams consisting of both full-time employees and contractors.

• Experience in modernizing legacy or on-premise enterprise applications to cloud-native SaaS, including managing customer migrations.

• Hands-on leadership experience in multi-tenant SaaS architecture and production operations, including SLOs, incident management, and on-call responsibilities.

• Demonstrated experience using AI and agentic tools to significantly improve engineering productivity and quality.

• Proven ability to manage multiple product lines and fulfill release obligations.

• Experience in negotiating contracts and statements of work with vendors.

• Background checks are required for employment where permitted by country, state, or province.

🏝️ Benefits

• Base salary range of $212,000–$265,000 per year.

• Additional bonus eligibility may apply.

• Equal employment opportunity.

• Confidential handling of employment information in accordance with EEO guidelines.