VP, Engineering

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment now and in the future.

Key Responsibilities

• Organizational Leadership: Lead and develop a high‑performing engineering organization, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Recruit, retain, and develop exceptional engineering talent while building leadership capability through coaching, succession planning, and performance management. Build organizational capacity by balancing full‑time and contingent talent to meet evolving business priorities.
• Platform Engineering: Define and execute the engineering strategy for enterprise platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, cloud‑native solutions supporting data, AI, security, identity, and shared services. Deliver reusable platform capabilities that accelerate product delivery, improve developer productivity, and enable enterprise‑wide adoption. Ensure engineering teams deliver reliable, high‑quality software with operational excellence and measurable business outcomes.
• Engineering Excellence & Enterprise Collaboration: Partner with Platform Product Management in an engineering/product leadership dyad to define platform strategy, investment priorities, and roadmaps. Establish modern engineering practices—including DevSecOps, quality engineering, automation, observability, and AI‑enabled software engineering—and measure their adoption and effectiveness across teams. Foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and innovation while evaluating emerging technologies that create business value.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline; Master’s degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including executive leadership of large, multi‑level engineering organizations.
• Proven experience leading engineering leaders (Directors of Engineering, Engineering Managers, senior technical leaders).
• Demonstrated success building and scaling enterprise platform engineering organizations supporting multiple product teams.
• Deep expertise in cloud‑native architectures, distributed systems, and modern software engineering practices, with experience delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms and technologies such as Azure, Databricks, data integration, and modern data engineering frameworks.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering, APIs, data management, AI‑enabled platforms, identity, security, and enterprise architecture principles.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps, CI/CD, quality engineering, observability, automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
• Hands‑on leader able to build POCs and actively contribute to design, architecture, and white‑boarding sessions.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, healthcare technology, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience building enterprise platforms for Data, AI, Identity, and shared developer capabilities.
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards such as FHIR or HL7.
• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering organizations.

Individual Talent Management

• Recruit, hire, and onboard top engineering talent.
• Develop and implement training and development programs to enhance the skills and capabilities of the engineering team.
• Foster a positive and inclusive work environment that promotes delivery, solid engineering practices and champions the Vizient value.
• Supplement FTE engineers with effective contingent staffing partnerships balancing cost and performance.

Engineering Practices

• Establish proper engineering practice.
• Measure adoption and effectiveness of engineering practices across teams, standardizing where appropriate.

Technical Expertise

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team.
• Stay up‑to‑date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies.
• Ensure that the engineering team is using the most effective and efficient tools, technologies, and processes.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the engineering department.

Collaboration & Shared Coordination

• Partner with Technology Delivery, Technology Practices, Enterprise Architecture, and Solutions to staff and manage high‑performing delivery teams while balancing cost and demand.
• Work with EA and Solutions to determine the right solution design for products, applications, and services.
• Develop and operate a thorough 360‑feedback program that ensures each employee is measured equally on delivery, practices, and values.

Additional Information

This position is incentive eligible. Vizient offers a comprehensive benefits plan.