VP, IT Operations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey.

📋 Description

• Oversee line management for engineers, offering guidance, coaching, mentoring, and talent development.

• Champion the adoption of the Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Transformation Operating Model.

• Create and uphold software development processes, standards, and best practices.

• Identify and implement the engineering model that aligns best with Equiniti’s business context and resources.

• Promote engineering excellence and quality through the use of analysis tools, control gates, peer reviews, and enhancements in design, productivity, and quality.

• Enhance the engineering lifecycle through effective knowledge management and ongoing learning.

• Collaborate with Product to mitigate technical debt across the estate and mission.

• Maintain strong relationships with risk management, compliance, and InfoSec, ensuring that corrective actions are taken.

• Assist engineers with technical challenges and nurture a self-directed, high-performance culture.

• Develop a talent pipeline through recruitment, internal movements, succession planning, and talent reviews.

• Evaluate and promote the adoption of emerging technologies, models, and methodologies.

• Communicate the technical roadmap, product vitality, and architectural documentation; oversee platform validation.

• Regularly contribute to code as an expert or seasoned coder.

• Formulate organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for software construction and refactoring.

• Plan and spearhead software construction for strategic, large-scale, and complex development projects.

• Adapt or create methods and organizational capabilities while ensuring adherence to policies and standards.

• Investigate and resolve application issues, implement corrections and workarounds, and gather user feedback for future development.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree in technical education, engineering, computer science, or a related field.

• Over 5 years of hands-on experience with relevant technology stacks.

• More than 5 years of management experience.

• Proven experience in engineering development within a Product SaaS organization.

• Experience leading the conceptualization and development of a portfolio of products or SaaS offerings.

• Background in financial services.

• Familiarity with Agile Methodologies, particularly Scrum.

• Knowledge of efficiency improvement, configuration management, release readiness, documentation/technical writing, process/data/system engineering, analytical methods, lifecycle management, and problem-solving.

• Understanding of full-stack development, REST/WCF services, database design, responsive web design, dependency injection, data access and persistence, ORM frameworks, unit and integration testing, web accessibility and security standards, SAST/DAST tools, CMS, message queuing, application architecture, containers, microservices, source code control, CI/CD, and Blue/Green deployments.

• Proficient with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TFSVC, Git, Azure Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services.

• Experience with identity and access technologies such as ADFS, OAuth, Okta, Identity Server, and certificates.

• Familiarity with ORM tools including Entity Framework and Dapper.

• Proficient in JSON, XML, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, LINQ, Lambda, PowerShell, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server, T-SQL, unit-test tools, .NET Core, .NET Framework, C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API, MVC, WebForms, Visual Studio, and Redgate Tools.

• A postgraduate qualification in advanced computer science subjects and an MBA in Systems are preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary package.

• Opportunities for professional development and growth.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Health and wellness programs.

• Collaborative and innovative work environment.