Vice President, Software Engineering

A leading enterprise software company is seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams responsible for delivering advanced data management and infrastructure software. This executive will guide modernization across long‑standing enterprise platforms and hybrid environments and build a high‑performing engineering organization capable of delivering mission‑critical solutions used by some of the world’s largest institutions. The ideal candidate brings deep experience with enterprise data systems, heritage platform technologies, and large‑scale distributed software engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Lead globally distributed engineering teams building enterprise‑grade data and infrastructure software.

Drive modernization of complex, long‑standing enterprise platforms and hybrid compute environments.

Guide major architectural decisions for high‑performance, high‑reliability data systems used in large-scale enterprises.

Foster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, quality, and accountability.

Partner with Product, Customer Success, and Sales leadership to ensure alignment across roadmap, architecture, and customer needs.

Define engineering performance standards, metrics, and goals to ensure delivery reliability and operational efficiency.

Recruit, develop, and mentor engineering leaders and senior technical talent.

Drive process improvements, automation, and scalability throughout the engineering organization.

Key Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 8–10+ years in senior engineering leadership roles.
• Deep experience delivering software for enterprise‑grade data platforms, transaction‑heavy systems, or large‑scale infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with Db2 development is a strong plus, but not required. Candidates with leadership experience across other complex database technologies, including query monitoring tools, database administration tooling, DevOps‑enabling platforms, or comparable enterprise data systems, are fully considered.
• Familiarity with heritage enterprise platforms widely used in regulated industries (financial services, insurance, government, etc.).
• Background working with mature enterprise data environments or tools with long-term industry adoption.
• Demonstrated success modernizing complex, legacy codebases and transitioning them into modern architectures.
• Experience leading high‑performing, global engineering teams.
• Strong architectural and strategic thinking, with the ability to connect engineering execution to business outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across executive stakeholders.
• Proven ability to scale engineering processes, drive automation, and increase efficiency.
• Experience implementing or scaling AI assistant tools (e.g., AI code assistants, documentation copilots, or similar) within engineering teams is a strong plus.

Annual salary range for this position is between $227,000.00 - $317,800.00 gross before taxes.

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