Vice President, Technology

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

📋 Description

• Spearhead the advancement of Greenbox Capital’s technology organization.

• Upgrade platforms and develop engineering capabilities to facilitate business expansion.

• Take ownership of technology strategy, architectural vision, engineering performance, and the implementation of value-adding initiatives.

• Create a technology strategy and roadmap that aligns with business objectives, growth, and scalability.

• Collaborate with the CEO and executive leadership to define technology priorities.

• Assess technology investments, organizational competencies, and competing priorities.

• Convert business challenges into technical strategies, execution plans, and measurable results.

• Set performance metrics for engineering productivity, delivery quality, reliability, and business impact.

• Oversee architecture, modernization, and scalability across cloud infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and enterprise integrations.

• Analyze architecture, identify technical risks, and steer modernization initiatives.

• Manage production cloud environments and contemporary data platforms.

• Build and nurture engineering, data, and technical leadership capabilities within a geographically distributed organization.

• Set expectations for quality, productivity, delivery, collaboration, and accountability.

• Cultivate technical leaders and make decisions regarding organizational talent.

• Enhance engineering processes, execution discipline, prioritization, and resource allocation.

• Recognize and implement feasible AI and automation opportunities.

• Facilitate the integration of AI-enabled features into production applications and operational workflows.

• Establish standards for security, reliability, quality, governance, and human oversight.

• Fortify technology security, resilience, governance, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

• Tackle security, compliance, and operational risks.

• Improve transparency regarding system performance, incidents, technical debt, and infrastructure requirements.

• Report directly to the Chief Executive Officer.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of progressive experience in technology, engineering, architecture, or related leadership roles.

• Significant responsibility for technology strategy and organizational performance.

• Proven experience leading engineering and data teams responsible for mission-critical applications, platforms, and products.

• Direct leadership over production cloud environments, modern data platforms, and intricate application architectures.

• Proficiency in evaluating architectural designs and directing technical decisions focused on scalability, reliability, security, cost, and performance.

• Successful track record in delivering technology modernization, platform transformation, or substantial architectural enhancements.

• Experience in constructing and guiding high-performing technical organizations.

• Background in developing leaders, assessing talent, and addressing organizational performance issues.

• Capability to connect technology investments with business outcomes.

• Experience in establishing technology roadmaps, delivery standards, engineering KPIs, and operational accountability.

• Background in implementing AI-enabled solutions, automation, or emerging technologies with measurable improvements.

• Experience collaborating with senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and Databricks, or comparable platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Snowflake, or other modern cloud and data services.

• Knowledge of cloud-native application architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and enterprise integrations.

• Understanding of data engineering, analytics platforms, data pipelines, and data governance.

• Experience in modernizing legacy applications, infrastructure, or enterprise technology platforms.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled business applications, machine learning, and engineering productivity tools.

• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, observability, and platform reliability.

• Knowledge in security, compliance, disaster recovery, and technology risk management.

• Experience with Salesforce or other enterprise CRM solutions.

• Proven ability to build and lead geographically distributed engineering and data teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Approximately 10% travel.