VP, Software Engineering

Job Summary
The Vice President, Software Engineering is responsible for establishing and leading the strategy, development, and successful execution of enterprise application engineering and integration initiatives ensuring scalable, high-performance, high-quality, and secure technology solutions that align with enterprise goals and objectives.

Primary Objectives

• Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders and product management teams to align technology strategies with business objectives.
• Drive innovative unified strategies and standards to manage the development, release, and maintenance of software applications and integration solutions in alignment with business needs.
• Proactively collaborate with business unit leadership to align and prioritize strategic engineering initiatives and projects ensuring effective resource allocations and budgeting.
• Provide oversight and management of engineering and integration standards and tools that ensure effective design, adherence to best practice, utilization of existing resources, delivery on velocity goals, execution best practices, and scalability to adapt quickly to changing business environments.
• Oversee the software development lifecycle ensuring best practice, productivity, and continuous improvement in agile methodologies and DevOps.
• Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline methodology.
• Direct, manage, and develop geographically dispersed engineering and leadership teams.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive development of strategies for the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise applications and integrations ensuring scalability, security, continuous improvement, and reliability.
• Establish metrics and KPIs to track engineering performance, productivity, deployment times, unplanned activity and root cause remediation, system uptime, and integration efficiency.
• Oversee the management and optimization of system integrations, APIs, and data workflows to ensure seamless interoperability across platforms and services, faster partner onboarding time, and reliable production processing.
• Develop and implement engineering best practices, methodologies, and tools to enhance development efficiency, velocity, and product quality.
• Manage vendor and contractor relationships and expenses to cost effectively optimize application development resources and ensure quality deliverables.
• Collaborate internal and external technology partners, product solution teams, and business leaders to define technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and technology vision.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies and tools to continuously enhance application performance, scalability, reliability, and enterprise technical competitive advantage.
• Establish and enforce security, compliance, and industry best practice standards across all engineering and integration initiatives.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to optimize cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments for application deployment and integration.
• Monitor and manage multi-year budgets, projections, resource allocation, and project timelines to ensure on-time and within-budget delivery.
• Evaluate projects and initiatives for feasibility, cost estimates, and resource availability.
• Drive incident response, troubleshooting, and performance tuning to maintain high availability and reliability of applications and integrations.
• Lead executive leadership discussions related to technical insights, roadmaps, risk assessments, and emerging technology.
• Lead, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering and integration teams to drive technical excellence and innovation.
• Establish shared Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) sustainable processes for production support for tier 2 and tier 3 issues.
• Establish and execute strategies to address technical debt.
• Develop organization and technology roadmaps to optimize technology solution delivery.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
• Take ownership and full responsibility for performance of production applications.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar degree or equivalent combination of coursework and experience in directly-related field required
• Master's degree preferred

Licenses and Certifications

• Valid passport for international travel required

Work Experience

• 12+ years' of related software engineering experience required
• 6+ years' in a senior management role with direct responsibility for leadership, budgets, and staffing required
• Experience in the transportation/logistics industry preferred

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong working knowledge of business and management principles involved in solution architecture, integration protocols, and database management best practices.
• Expert knowledge of architectural frameworks, methods and tools and the ability to coach, advise, and assist with appropriate strategy and design disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale application development and integration initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in cloud computing, microservices architecture, APIs, and modern software development practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks and capabilities.
• Deep understanding of data integration, middleware, and enterprise system interoperability.
• Strong leadership skills with demonstrated ability to motivate others, influence behavior, and lead by example.
• Current knowledge of software trends with the ability to gain and retain knowledge of emerging technology and applications.
• Ability to identify complex problems, use logic and reasoning to review related information, develop and evaluate options, reach conclusions, and implement solutions.
• Ability and excellent skills in budgeting and forecasting multi-team project requirements.
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills to convey information effectively to a variety of audiences.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of tools.

Competencies

• Builds High-Performing Teams Selects, organizes, and motivates colleagues to work together in a committed way to achieve a common mission and ensures a pipeline of talent for the future.
• Deep Understanding of the Business Develops and applies a deep personal knowledge of TPG diverse portfolio of business streams, customers and clients.
• Delivers Results Rigorously drives self and others to achieve high levels of individual and organization performance.
• Engages & Inspires Others Leads with energy, self-confidence and understanding in ways that motivate colleagues to achieve more than they thought possible.
• Focuses on the Customer & Market Continuously evaluates what is important to the customer/client and develops products or solutions that exceed expectations.
• Makes Sound Business Decisions Makes timely and well-informed decisions that advance critical priorities, capitalize on new opportunities, and resolve problems.
• Partners Across Boundaries Works collaboratively and effectively with colleagues throughout the company toward the common good of The Pasha Group.
• Practices our Values Supports and models The Pasha Way; conduct reflects Excellence, Honesty, Integrity, Innovation and Teamwork.
• Thinks & Acts Strategically Anticipates business opportunities and challenges and drives long-term strategies while maintaining a focus on shorter-term objectives.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS, WORK ENVIRONMENT, AND TRAVEL
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Hear and speak with sufficient clarity to understand and engage in telephonic information exchange; hear and understand verbal instructions; give and receive information verbally in person or via communication device - Often
• Walk/travel within office environment, crouch/bend to access floor-level storage - Often
• Use hands/fingers to operate office equipment, type/complete data input, write - Often
• Reach with hands, arms; lift, move and manipulate objects weighing up to 20 pounds - Regularly
• Sight sufficient to read instructions, documents, and screen-based information - Often
• Use hands/fingers to manipulate and file documents, folders, small objects - Regularly

Working Environment
This role requires work that may involve the following environmental conditions:

• Corporate office environment

Travel
20% Must be able to travel independently domestically and internationally.

Screening Requirements
Background Checks

Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, except as prohibited by law.
The information included in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive or exhaustive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.