Group Vice President, Technology

About the Role

As the VP, Head of Technology, you will be the primary architect and engineering leader for a high-growth business division at Wiley. This role is designed for a "builder-leader"—someone who remains hands-on with the latest AI-assisted development tools while possessing the veteran experience to manage global engineering teams and deliver enterprise-grade systems. You will lead the technical execution of a strategic business model focused on maximizing advertisement revenue, scaling proprietary database products, and launching a premier Research Intelligence Platform. You will bridge the gap between complex data engineering and commercial strategy, directly shaping how Wiley masters and merges massive-scale public data with high-value private assets.

Responsibilities

• Data Mastering: Design and oversee the architecture for ingesting massive-scale public datasets and seamlessly merging them with proprietary private data to create unique, defensible insights.
• Modern Engineering Leadership: Drive a high-velocity development culture by integrating cutting-edge AI-assisted coding workflows (e.g., Cursor, Claude) to accelerate the delivery of complex data pipelines.
• Enterprise Delivery: Own the end-to-end lifecycle of large-scale SaaS products, ensuring they meet rigorous enterprise standards for security, uptime, and scalability.
• Cloud & AI Strategy: Manage a robust, cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Azure) designed for heavy data processing, Medallion Architecture, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems.
• Global Team Management: Lead and mentor a hybrid engineering organization, with a specific focus on optimizing workflows, code quality, and security protocols across offshore development teams.
• Strategic Collaboration: Partner directly with the General Manager to align technical roadmaps with business milestones, ensuring the division's AI-powered vision is realized.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of building large-scale pipelines that aggregate, clean, and master disparate data sources into "Golden Records."
• Deep, hands-on familiarity with LLMs and modern developer productivity tools. Demonstrable experience using tools like Claude and Cursor to significantly increase engineering output.
• Extensive experience managing offshore or distributed teams, with the ability to maintain high velocity and architectural integrity across time zones.
• Proven ability to deliver systems that meet SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR/CCPA compliance standards, particularly when handling sensitive private partner data.
• Expert-level understanding of cloud-native data warehousing (Snowflake/Databricks), Vector Databases (Pinecone/Weaviate), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Pulumi).

Skills

• Languages & Tools: Python, SQL, Cursor, Claude/Anthropic API, LangChain/LlamaIndex, and Agentic Frameworks (e.g., CrewAI).
• Data Architecture: Spark/Flink, Airflow/Dagster, and Medallion data structures.
• Infrastructure: AWS or Azure, Docker/Kubernetes, and Zero-Trust security environments for offshore collaboration.

Benefits

• Meeting-free Friday afternoons for focused work and professional development.
• Robust employee programming to foster community, learning, and growth.
• Commitment to fair, transparent pay and comprehensive benefits package.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $218,900.00 USD to $328,566.66 USD (for roles in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, or Spain). The ultimate salary offered may vary based on geographic location, skills, and competencies.