VP, Lead Software Engineer

Job Overview

The Vice President, Lead Software Engineer is responsible for technology strategy, architecture leadership, engineering delivery, and platform modernization across Corporate Actions, Class Actions, and Securities Lending platforms. This role provides leadership across more than 20 application teams and partners closely with Product, Operations, Architecture, Security, Data, Infrastructure, Compliance, and senior leadership stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions that support enterprise priorities.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute multi-year technology roadmaps supporting Corporate Actions, Class Actions, and Securities Lending platforms.
• Lead modernization initiatives transitioning legacy systems to cloud-native, API-first, service-oriented, and event-driven architectures.
• Establish architecture and engineering standards focused on scalability, resiliency, security, observability, and operational excellence.
• Drive adoption of modern technologies including .NET, Angular, AWS, Kafka, microservices, enterprise integration patterns, and data platforms.
• Champion AI-assisted software engineering practices across the software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, documentation, automation, and production support.
• Partner with senior business leaders, product management, operations teams, architects, and external vendors to align technology investments with business objectives.
• Lead technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, vendor assessments, and modernization initiatives involving both vendor and internally developed platforms.
• Establish and oversee engineering excellence practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, quality engineering, reliability engineering, security, and observability.
• Monitor and drive engineering performance through key operational, delivery, reliability, quality, and productivity metrics.
• Provide leadership, coaching, talent development, succession planning, and organizational growth across distributed engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and client-focused delivery.

Requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including progressive leadership responsibility within enterprise technology organizations.
• Experience leading large-scale modernization, digital transformation, and enterprise technology delivery programs.
• Demonstrated expertise in cloud technologies, distributed systems, API and microservices architecture, DevSecOps practices, and modern software engineering methodologies.
• Experience leading large engineering organizations, cross-functional teams, and strategic technology initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and vendor partners.
• Experience communicating technology strategy, delivery plans, and business outcomes to executive leadership and senior stakeholders.

Core Competencies

• Technology strategy and enterprise architecture leadership.
• Organizational leadership, coaching, talent development, and succession planning.
• Executive communication, stakeholder management, and strategic influence.
• Enterprise software engineering, modernization, and platform transformation.
• AI-assisted software development and engineering productivity enablement.
• Operational excellence, risk management, and delivery governance.
• Vendor partnership management and enterprise program leadership.

Preferences

• Experience supporting Corporate Actions, Class Actions, Securities Lending, Wealth Management, Brokerage Operations, Banking, or Capital Markets platforms.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled engineering practices, generative AI solutions, or agentic development frameworks.
• Experience leading multi-million-dollar technology modernization programs and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Expertise with .NET/C#, Angular, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, event-driven architecture, and domain-driven design principles.
• Familiarity with DORA metrics, engineering performance measurement, and large-scale DevSecOps implementation.