magnals - Vice President of Software Engineering
Requirements
• 12+ years of progressive software-engineering experience, including 5+ years leading multiple teams or product areas. • Demonstrated success building and leading high performing software engineering organizations, including managing managers. • Track record of delivering complex, business-critical software while improving execution discipline, quality, and predictability. • Strong understanding of modern software architecture, APIs, cloud platforms, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, security, and production operations. • Experience modernizing legacy systems incrementally while continuing to meet active business and customer commitments. • Ability to lead effectively across a varied technology portfolio. Magna's core platforms are built primarily on Microsoft technologies (C#, .NET, Azure); working knowledge of this stack and of modern web, cloud, and data technologies is expected. • Strong organizational judgment, including the ability to make sound decisions about team design, capacity, prioritization, and technical investment. • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical, operational, and commercial audiences. • Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with senior architects and principal-level technical experts while maintaining clear decision rights and accountability. • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience). • Experience delivering AI- or machine-learning-enabled products or meaningfully integrating AI into the software-development lifecycle. • Experience building software subject to HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar regulatory and client security requirements. • Experience in a multi-product, multi-business-line, professional service, legal services, private-equity-backed, or acquisition-oriented environment, including integrating acquired technology platforms and teams. • Leadership Profile • The successful candidate will be: • Business-minded: Connects engineering work to customer outcomes, operational needs, and company priorities. • Execution-oriented: Creates clarity, establishes accountability, and follows through on commitments. • Technically credible: Understands complex systems and tradeoffs without becoming a bottleneck or displacing technical owners. • People-centered: Develops leaders, creates healthy teams, and gives clear and actionable feedback. • Pragmatic: Balances modernization, speed, quality, and risk based on business context. • Collaborative: Works effectively across functions and business lines and communicates with candor and respect. • Adaptable: Leads confidently through changing priorities, evolving technologies, and organizational growth.
Responsibilities
• Engineering Leadership and Organization Development • Lead Magna's software engineering organization across multiple products and lines of business. • Develop and coach engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and individual contributors, establishing clear accountability and high performance at every level. • Assess and evolve organizational structure, team capacity, role clarity, and leadership coverage as the portfolio grows. • Own workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, career development, the engineering budget, and vendor and contractor relationships for software engineering. • Build a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and direct, respectful communication. • Balance durable product alignment with the ability to shift talent across shared components, high-priority initiatives, and changing business needs. • Delivery and Operational Excellence • Translate company, product, and business-line priorities into clear engineering roadmaps, staffing plans, and execution commitments. • Establish a consistent operating cadence for planning, prioritization, estimation, delivery, release management, and executive reporting. • Improve the predictability, speed, and transparency of software delivery while maintaining appropriate quality and risk controls. • Proactively identify dependencies, resource constraints, delivery risks, and organizational blockers, and drive them to resolution. • Define and monitor meaningful engineering measures related to delivery, quality, reliability, security, and team health. • Ensure teams own software throughout its lifecycle, from problem definition and design through deployment, monitoring, support, incident response, and ongoing improvement. • Software Quality and Technical Execution • Guide the pragmatic modernization of legacy applications while protecting business continuity and customer experience. • Lead the technical integration of acquired businesses and platforms into Magna's shared capabilities. • Raise standards for software design, code quality, automated testing, observability, documentation, maintainability, and production readiness. • Strengthen engineering practices across APIs, cloud services, distributed systems, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and secure software development. • Ensure software meets the security, privacy, and compliance obligations that come with handling protected health information, personal data, and privileged legal material, including [HIPAA, SOC 2, and client security audits – confirm]. • Ensure teams make practical technology choices that fit the needs of each product while supporting appropriate reuse, interoperability, and shared platform capabilities. • Maintain enough technical depth to evaluate tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, support incident resolution, and earn credibility with senior engineers and architects. • Cross-Functional and Executive Partnership • Partner with Product and Design to create achievable roadmaps, clarify requirements, and balance customer value, technical health, and delivery capacity. • Work closely with business, operations, and go-to-market leaders to translate legal services workflows and client needs into scalable software capabilities. • Communicate plans, tradeoffs, risks, progress, and outcomes clearly to executive and nontechnical stakeholders. • Create effective feedback loops between engineering teams and the internal users, clients, and business stakeholders who depend on Magna's products. • AI-Enabled Engineering and Product Development • Advance the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, quality, documentation, testing, and knowledge sharing. • Partner with Product, the CTO, and technical leaders to evaluate and deliver practical AI and large-language-model capabilities within Magna's products and workflows, such as transcript summarization, deposition indexing, and medical record review. • Establish appropriate engineering discipline around AI-enabled features, including evaluation, security, privacy, reliability, human oversight, and ongoing monitoring. • Encourage thoughtful experimentation while ensuring AI investments remain connected to measurable customer and business outcomes. • ## What Success Looks Like in the First 12 Months • A predictable planning and release cadence, with delivery commitments met and reported transparently to executive leadership. • A clear organizational design with strong leadership coverage across products and shared platforms. • Measurable progress on Recordtrak and Maggie without disruption to clients. • At least one AI-enabled capability in production with defined evaluation, monitoring, and human oversight.
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