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VP, Technical Engineering

Opensity Solutions · Chicago, IL · 3 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes "About Us" but we should not repeat job title as heading. We need sections: About the role? The instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to decide which sections have content. We have: - About Us (company description) maybe not needed as a section? Could be "About the role"? Actually "About Us" is company overview, not role. The instruction says we can use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have: - Job Description (description of role) - could be "About the role" or maybe we treat as description paragraph. - Key Responsibilities (list) -> Responsibilities section. - Qualifications Required -> Qualifications section. - Preferred Experience -> maybe Skills? Or could be part of Qualifications? But we have separate "Preferred Experience" list; could be under Skills or Qualifications? The instruction says we can use Skills heading. Probably we put preferred experience under Skills. - Compensation range -> Pay section. - Benefits -> Benefits section. - No explicit Schedule. - No explicit Skills besides preferred experience; we could put under Skills. - Also there is "Organizational & People Leadership" part of responsibilities? Already covered. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Use
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    for prose. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, etc. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we need to strip the EEO paragraph at end. Also remove "About Us" maybe? It's not a heading we need; but we could include as a short paragraph under maybe "About the role"? Actually "About Us" is company overview, not role. The instruction says we can use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, etc. It didn't forbid adding other headings, but says use

    for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should use those headings where appropriate. Could also add other headings if needed? Probably better to stick to those. Thus we need to extract: - About the role: maybe combine the "Job Description" paragraph(s) that describe the role. The posting includes a paragraph after "Job Description Opensity Solutions is seeking a Vice President of Technical Engineering to lead the technical engine of the business." etc. That's substantive. We'll put that in

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            . We must not include Schedule section because not present. We must not include any filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers. We must not include duplicated lines. We must remove EEO paragraph. We must also remove any "Opensity is committed to fostering an inclusive..." etc. That's EEO boilerplate; remove. Also remove "All eligible employees receive access to a comprehensive benefits package, including:" maybe we keep as intro to benefits list? That's part of benefits description; we can keep as

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              . That's fine. Now we need to preserve all substantive information: ensure we don't lose any details. Let's extract the About the role prose: From "Job Description Opensity Solutions is seeking a Vice President of Technical Engineering to lead the technical engine of the business. Reporting to the Executive Vice President, this is the senior-most technical leadership role in the organization — accountable for how work is scoped, how it is delivered, and how the environments we build stay secure and supportable once they are live. The role spans multiple functions: engineering delivery, pre-sales solution architecture, infrastructure and network operations, the security organization, and datacenter strategy. Carrying all of them is deliberate. It means the person who commits to a scope is the same person accountable for delivering it, and the same person who inherits the environment afterward. The VP is expected to use that position to close the gap between what is sold and what is built. This is a hands-on executive role, in a specific sense. The VP does not write the designs, the standards, or the roadmaps — that work belongs to the architects and managers who own each domain. But the VP participates in the build process, challenges them, makes direct changes to them, and is accountable for them once they ship. Accepting what the team hands over and passing it along is not the job. The plan is ultimately the VP's plan." We'll put that as a paragraph. Now Responsibilities: list under "Key Responsibilities". There are subheadings: Technical Delivery & Project Execution, Pre-Sales & Solution Architecture, Infrastructure, Network & Security Operations, Security, Datacenter, Organizational & People Leadership. Each has multiple bullet-like sentences. We need to turn each sentence into
            • . We should preserve the content exactly. Let's extract each bullet: Technical Delivery & Project Execution: - Own end-to-end delivery accountability for the engineering portfolio — schedule, technical quality, margin, and client outcome. - Institutionalize a structured delivery lifecycle and the design standards that support it. - Establish and enforce engineering standards: design documentation, test and cutover plans, change control, rollback procedures, and as-built handover packages. - Partner with the PMO on project health reviews; identify at-risk engagements early and work with the architects to intervene with a concrete recovery plan rather than a status update. - Own resource planning and utilization for the solution architects and for the Director of Security. - Serve as the executive escalation point for delivery issues, and owns resolving technical issues when a project is genuinely off track. - Drive continuous improvement through post-engagement reviews, tracking recurring failure modes and fixing their root causes in process or training. Pre-Sales & Solution Architecture: - Partner with the solution architects to complete technical scoping and solution design for new opportunities, ensuring estimates reflect real effort, dependencies, and risk, and that bills of materials and technical proposal content are complete before anything is committed. - Partner with sales leadership as the senior technical voice in client and prospect conversations, from discovery through executive presentation. - Build and maintain reusable scoping models, reference architectures, and solution templates that reduce estimating variance and speed up proposal turnaround. - Act as trusted technical advisor to key accounts — providing vCIO services, leading architecture reviews, technology roadmap discussions, and modernization planning. - Maintain a disciplined qualification standard: recommend declining or restructuring opportunities that carry unacceptable technical or delivery risk. - Partner with the Vendor Management Office (VMO) on technical relationships, including certification requirements, partner tier obligations, and product roadmap alignment. Infrastructure, Network & Security Operations: - Approve and govern the architecture standards the architects author across System, Network, End User Compute, Document Management, and Security; arbitrate exceptions and deviations. - Work alongside the architects while those standards and roadmaps are being built — challenging assumptions and making direct changes — rather than reviewing finished deliverables after the fact. - Hold each architect accountable for the operational health of their domain and for the metrics that demonstrate it. - Approve the lifecycle and refresh roadmaps each domain produces, including end-of-life and end-of-support exposure. - Act as the final escalation point when a domain has exhausted its own path — the backstop that brings informed judgment to the problem. - Define the standards every domain is held to — documentation, design review, and handover among them — and build out the standards that do not exist yet. Security: - Directly lead the Director of Security and the Security Architect function, setting objectives, priorities, and performance expectations for both. - Hold the Director of Security accountable for the security engineering team — its delivery quality, operational discipline, and day-to-day execution. - Establish the operating model between security architecture (standards and design) and security engineering (implementation and operations) so ownership is unambiguous at the boundary. - Review and approve the security organization's structure, staffing plan, and role definitions as the practice grows. - Resolve escalations and conflicts between security requirements and delivery timelines, making the risk-versus-schedule call and owning it. - Own the development plan for the security practice — skills coverage, certification roadmap, lab and tooling investment, and training priorities — built with the Director of Security rather than handed to them. - Coach the Director of Security as a leader, not only as a technologist; build their capacity to run, staff, and grow the team without escalation. - Develop the Security Architect into an advisor capable of leading executive-level risk and compliance conversations. - Build succession depth across the security function and remove single points of knowledge failure through documentation and cross-training. - Set the hiring bar for senior security talent and participate directly in those hiring decisions. Datacenter: - Engage the Manager Datacenter Operations to build and maintain the standards and capacity plan for Opensity's own datacenter and colocation footprint — power, cooling, cabinet and rack layout, and carrier and cross-connect strategy — and approve the result. - Drive the datacenter strategy — where Opensity holds footprint, where it consolidates, and where it exits — and own each of those decisions end to end, including the business case, the client transition plan, and the timeline the decision has to stand on. - Partner with the Manager Datacenter Operations to define what a modernized Opensity datacenter service looks like for clients whose workloads are staying in the datacenter — deciding together what changes, in what order, and what it gives those clients that a commodity provider cannot. Organizational & People Leadership: - Build, structure, and develop the technical organization — hiring, leveling, career paths, and certification strategy. - Coach architects, security team members, and technical leads; grow the next layer of leadership rather than concentrating knowledge at the top. - Carry accountability for the technical services P&L, including budget, tooling, training, and contractor spend. - Reduce single-person dependencies through documentation, cross-training, and deliberate knowledge transfer. - Contribute to company strategy as a member of the leadership team, translating market and technology shifts into service offerings and capability investments. - Take on additional responsibilities and reporting relationships as the business requires. Now Qualifications Required list: - 12+ years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure, network engineering, or technical consulting, including 5+ years leading engineering teams. - Demonstrated ownership of a delivery portfolio in a professional services or managed services environment, with accountability for both technical outcomes and margin. - Deep hands-on background in enterprise network and infrastructure engineering — routing and switching, firewalls and network security, virtualization, and cloud or hybrid architecture. - Proven pre-sales capability: scoping complex engagements, writing defensible SOWs and estimates, and presenting solutions credibly to executive buyers. - Working command of security operations practice — vulnerability management, patching discipline, incident response, and hardening standards. - Ability to bring deep specialists with genuinely different worldviews to a single plan. The CISSP and the CCIE will not agree; this role is expected to get them to one answer and make it stick. - Track record of building process where little existed, and getting engineers to actually adopt it. - Excellent written and verbal communication; able to move between a CIO conversation and a packet capture without losing either audience. - Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience. Preferred Experience list: - Experience

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