Senior Vice President, Engineering - Platform and Data (CA)

Job Description

About the Team and About the Role:
Reporting directly to the CTO, the Senior Vice President Engineering - Platform and Data will lead an organization that comprises engineering (with integrated quality assurance) and architecture. This person will lead our established organization of engineers to advance our platform and data platform capabilities. This person will work closely with other Engineering and Product leaders and be accountable for all aspects of product implementation and delivery. The platform and data platform components are used internally to accelerate solution development and externally by our partners to deliver an ecosystem of value for our customers.


Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead the advancement and delivery of a world class service-oriented software platform and data platform. 
  • Strengthen the organization through coaching, training and recruiting. 
  • Be an advocate for strong, independent and accountable engineering teams. 
  • Deliver outstanding new functionality to our customers. 
  • Work closely with product management leadership to ensure agile delivery of new capabilities. 
  • Work closely with business unit leaders to ensure rapid advancement of new opportunities. 
  • Work closely with engineering leaders and the CTO in support of corporate strategic priorities. 
  • Ensure that customer issues are addressed and maintain direct communication with the customers. 
  • Help evolve and grow our engineering process, improving velocity and transparency. 
  • Be accountable for strategic initiatives. 
  • Demonstrate a strong commitment to exceptional engineering, with a focus on proactive action and delivering effective business solutions.
  • Participate in architecture, design and technology decisions. 

  • Your Key Strengths:
  • 10+ years leadership experience of commercial enterprise software engineers with organizations larger than 50 people. 
  • 5+ years delivering commercial software as a service solutions (SaaS). 
  • Proven success growing high caliber engineering organizations. 
  • Experience collaborating with senior leadership on strategic priorities. 
  • Established perspectives on large organization leadership, communications, and change management. 
  • Advanced knowledge of systems architecture and application architecture practices. 
  • Advanced expertise in large-scale SaaS platform and interoperability engineering, as well as in large-scale SaaS data platform engineering.   
  • Advanced knowledge of effective agile practices for large engineering organizations. 
  • Experience leading organizations with full stack, full responsibility (blended developers and QA) teams. 
  • Experience delivering highly complex enterprise solutions with demanding reliability requirements. 
  • Experience delivering solutions with very complicated interoperability and regulatory requirements. 


  • Optional: Bonus Skills:
  • Rigorous and creative problem-solving ability. 
  • High EQ, low ego. 
  • Advanced degree in computer science or related field.