Vice President, Engineering, Outcomes

Duties And Responsibilities

• Guide and Develop Talent: Mentor and grow a world-class engineering organization, empowering teams to deliver customer-centric solutions with authenticity and accountability.
• Define Technical Strategy: Define and execute cloud architecture strategies leveraging modern engineering practices, distributed systems, and secure-by-design concepts.
• Deliver Innovative Solutions: Leveraging both Itron and third-party endpoints and networks, deliver solutions to our utility customers that address their business goals and meet their expectations in terms of reliability, accuracy, scale and security.
• Embed AI Innovation: Operationalize AI-assisted design, coding, testing, and optimization to enhance velocity, quality, and operational intelligence.
• Foster Collaborative Culture: Cultivate an environment of psychological safety, high trust, and agility, enabling teams to experiment, learn, and own outcomes.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Develop effective relationships with Outcomes Product Management and other internal teams, as well as across Itron Business Units, to ensure alignment and achieve measurable business results.
• Performance Excellence: Establish and monitor KPIs for reliability, customer outcomes, and engineering productivity, driving continuous improvement.
• Ensure Resilience and Security: Promote operational resilience and compliance across the platform ecosystem.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field; master’s degree preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive engineering responsibility, including managing large, distributed, technical teams.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise-grade cloud-based solutions running Microsoft Azure, AWS and other hyperscalers.
• Demonstrated success integrating AI into the software development lifecycle (e.g., AI-assisted coding, automated testing, intelligent monitoring, generative design tools).
• Technical expertise in cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, embedded firmware, system-level APIs, and large-scale data solutions.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages (.NET, Java, Python) and DevOps/CI/CD automation.
• Strengths in strategic thinking, talent development, and inspiring high performance.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to align both internal and external stakeholders and influence outcomes.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience with large-volume data ecosystems, real-time streaming, or event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with regulated or complex enterprise environments.
• Advanced technical degree or executive-level engineering management experience.