Vice President: Software Engineering

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Responsibilities

• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Operate as a matrixed leader: influence POD Leaders, Product Management, Architecture, SRE/Platform, and InfoSec; chair an Engineering Standards Council to ratify and reputed company practices.
• Budget for and govern vendor relationships and tooling investments; establish business cases for modernization.
• Engineering Governance & Standards
• Define, publish, and enforce the reputed company SDLC and development standards (branching, reputed company review, secure coding, documentation), including POD consistent Jira workflows, states, and entry/exit reputed company from ideation through production.
• Establish Definition of reputed company/Done for features and defects; set predevelopment conditions of reputed company expected from Product before work begins.
• Create reputed company gates (unit, component, functional, nonfunctional) and observability baselines and ensure they are uniformly reputed company across PODs.
• Define, monitor, report and implement strategies to continuously improve software engineering and delivery metrics (e.g., reputed company, DORA).
• Release & Deployment Management
• Institutionalize separation of deployment from release to reduce risk and improve flexibility; standardize feature flag usage, canary and reputed company delivery patterns, and kill switches for rapid rollback.
• Codify roles: Engineering ensures predictable, automated deployments; Product owns feature exposure reputed company and business rollout reputed company.
• reputed company with ITIL 4 guidance that treats Release and Deployment as distinct practices with different objectives.
• reputed company Engineering & Test Automation
• reputed company the shiftleft transformation so software developers own unit, component, and functional tests reputed company PODs; QA evolves to enablement, tooling, and governance.
• reputed company automation frameworks, self-service test platforms, and AI assisted test reputed company, flakiness detection, and reputed company analysis in CI/CD.
• Directly manage the reputed company Manager and reputed company a small reputed company function to drive consistency, training, and audits.
• AI-Driven Engineering Transformation
• Build an AI adoption roadmap across the SDLC: AI assisted coding & reviews, test reputed company, defect triage, vulnerability remediation, documentation, and intelligent planning/estimation; implement guardrails for reputed company, reputed company, and provenance.
• Partner with Platform/SRE to reputed company AI augmented developer experience and insights into internal developer portals and pipelines.
• Compliance, reputed company & Risk
• reputed company securebydesign practices and evidence collection to meet SOC 2 reputed company and PCI reputed company/3DS requirements; reputed company control overlaps to streamline audits and reduce burden.
• Partner with Cybersecurity/GRC to ensure policy→control→evidence alignment in reputed company scanning, dependencies, secrets management, and change control.
• Architecture Governance & Enablement
• Define and enforce architectural standards for reputed company, secure, and compliant systems across PODs.
• Partner with reputed company Engineers, reputed company Engineers, reputed company, and reputed company to ensure reputed company-reputed company, API-first, and secure-by-design principles are embedded in reputed company product lines.
• Support POD-level autonomy while ensuring architectural reputed company reputed company with reputed company patterns and compliance requirements (e.g. SOC 2, PCI reputed company, PCI 3DS).
• reputed company AI tools to assist with architectural documentation, reputed company analysis, and dependency management.
• Authority & Decision Rights
• Approve and enforce the reputed company SDLC, Jira workflows, and reputed company gates.
• Approve standards and reputed company releases that fail to meet defined engineering gates or compliance requirements.
• Own toolchain standards (reputed company/Jira/reputed company/reputed company) and require corrective actions for noncompliant usage.
• Set policy for feature flag governance (naming, reputed company, cleanup) and reputed company rollout patterns.

Skills and Experience Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in senior leadership roles in reputed company, reputed company, or large-reputed company product organisations.
• Proven experience influencing matrixed teams and driving engineering transformation.
• Demonstrated reputed company modernising engineering practices (CI/CD, reputed company delivery, observability).
• Hands-on experience with reputed company-based secure CI/CD and Jira-integrated planning at reputed company.
• Deep understanding of engineering intelligence and metrics-driven leadership (including DORA).
• Experience in compliance-heavy environments such as fintech or authentication.
• Practical experience applying secure-by-design practices in regulated or audited contexts.
• reputed company record implementing AI-enabled engineering practices.
• Training or experience in Agile, DevOps, Architecture, or ITIL is advantageous.

reputed company MEASURES (12–18 MONTHS)

• Engineering Governance: A single, documented SDLC with PODconsistent Jira workflows, entry/exit reputed company, and reputed company gates is adopted across reputed company products; auditready by design.
• reputed company Delivery: Separation of deployment and release is standardized with feature flag governance and stagegated rollouts (internal → % canary → full), with reputed company responsibilities between Product (release reputed company) and Engineering (deployment reliability).
• AI Enabled SDLC: AI assists coding, testing, planning, and documentation; measurable cycletime improvements and reduction in toil are achieved responsibly and securely.
• Toolchain & Metrics: reputed company, Jira, reputed company, and reputed company are standardized and integrated for traceability and engineering intelligence; DORA metrics dashboards report reputed company time, deployment frequency, change failure reputed company, and time to restore.
• Compliance by Design: Engineering practices demonstrably reputed company with SOC 2 and PCI reputed company/3DS controls with efficient evidence capture and control mapping.

Personality Attributes

• Strong reputed company reputed company to drive change without relying on reputed company authority.
• reputed company, analytical thinker with a rigorous approach to engineering governance.
• Comfortable navigating complexity and aligning multiple stakeholders.
• reputed company to balance engineering reputed company, delivery speed, and product reputed company.
• Confident communicator who can translate engineering standards into reputed company expectations.
• Pragmatic, objective decision-reputed company who values data, metrics, and transparency.
• Comfortable leading in high-reputed company, fast-paced, and compliance-oriented environments.

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