Vice President of Engineering

About the role

The Vice President of Engineering will lead the company's engineering organization, responsible for building scalable, reliable, and high-quality technology platforms that power business growth. This role operates as the "Build" leader within a Build / Operate / Govern model, with full accountability for engineering delivery, architecture execution, and service ownership.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the engineering strategy and operating model, aligned to Build / Operate / Govern principles
• Own the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, including development, testing, release, and L3/L4 support
• Establish and enforce architecture standards and technical governance, serving as the authority for solution design and technology direction
• Build and lead a product- and platform-aligned engineering organization, including application, platform, data, and DevOps teams
• Design and scale modern engineering systems, including CI/CD and release pipelines, test automation and quality engineering, observability and reliability practices, developer experience and productivity tooling
• Embed "You Build It, You Run It" accountability, ensuring engineering teams own system reliability, performance, and operability
• Partner with Head of IT Operations to ensure production readiness and service continuity, align on incident management, change management, and SLAs
• Partner with the CISO organization to embed secure-by-design development practices, align delivery with risk, audit, and compliance requirements
• Translate business and product demand into sequenced, executable roadmaps

Requirements

• Deep experience leading organizations operating under a "You Build It, You Run It" or similar service ownership model, with clear accountability for reliability and performance
• Strong background in modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD and automated release pipelines, test automation and quality engineering, infrastructure as code and cloud-native architectures, observability (monitoring, logging, tracing) and reliability engineering
• Proven ability to design and scale engineering systems, not just teams, including delivery lifecycle (build -> test -> release -> operate), developer experience and productivity tooling, platform engineering and shared services models
• Demonstrated expertise in enterprise architecture and technical governance, including defining and enforcing architecture standards, leading architecture review and decision processes, driving consistency across distributed engineering teams
• Experience partnering effectively with IT Operations and Security functions within a shared accountability model, including aligning on incident management, SLAs, and operational readiness, embedding secure-by-design practices into development
• Experience building and scaling with cloud-based platforms (Azure preferred)

Qualifications

• Experience leading large, multi-layered engineering organizations
• Proven success implementing product-based and platform-based operating models
• Deep experience in DevOps, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices
• Strong architecture background with experience owning technical direction at scale
• Experience operating in shared accountability models (e.g., engineering + operations + security)
• Ability to drive both organizational design and execution performance
• Bachelor's degree in related field or demonstrated equivalent experience in a related field required

Skills

• Experience in insurance, financial services, or regulated environments
• Track record implementing and governing a "You Build It, You Run It" or similar ownership models
• Experience reducing vendor dependency and building internal engineering capability
• Exposure to data, AI/ML, and modern cloud-native architectures