disher - Vice President of Software

• Translate company strategy into a clear 2-3 year architectural roadmap and align engineering, product, data, and business teams around it. • Establish architectural principles that guide decisions across legacy modernization, new service delivery platforms, and AI-native platforms. • Lead the engineering organization by hiring, mentoring, and developing senior engineering leaders, tech leads, and architects. • Drive engineering execution by establishing best practices for CI/CD, observability, infrastructure, developer experience, and delivery management. • Own and continuously improve the software development lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring operationalization, metrics tracking, reporting, and team optimization. • Oversee their enterprise cybersecurity strategy, policies, and technical controls, ensuring security is embedded into architecture, SDLC, and operations (secure-by-design). • Manage identity, access management, data protection, incident response, and vulnerability management as the organization scales. • Regularly assess evolving business conditions, customer needs, and market dynamics, adapting technical direction accordingly. • Proactively surface risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities to leadership before they become constraints. • Present their architecture, platform vision, and AI strategy to customers, partners, and prospects with executive presence and polish. • Represent the company at industry conferences, panels, and events, serving as a visible technical leader and brand ambassador. • Balance system and architectural decisions across scalability, speed, security, cost, and operational maturity. • Establish clear ownership models, accountability, and delivery standards across the engineering organization. • Address structural challenges within the engineering team, making difficult decisions about process improvements and team composition when necessary. • Lead a fully remote, distributed team of approximately 20 people across 3-4 direct reports (senior directors). • Articulate the "why" behind architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences with clarity and conviction. • Travel approximately once per month for quarterly leadership meetings and strategic sessions. • ## What will make you successful: • 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, SDLC, and solution design leadership roles in high-growth, global environments. • Deep software development experience including running software engineering teams and delivering production software. • Expert-level understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including how to operationalize it, deliver on it, report on metrics, and optimize teams around it. • Strong cloud architecture expertise specifically in cloud-based applications (Azure or AWS required). • Experience driving enterprise-wide transformations including modernization, cloud migration, data strategy, and AI enablement. • Proven success designing, implementing, and evolving integrated systems at scale. • Practical experience integrating AI/ML systems into production software. • Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences, including customers and executives. • Executive presence and polish, comfortable presenting at customer meetings, partner engagements, and industry speaking events. • Strategic and visionary thinking, not just a strong executor, but someone who can envision corporate architecture and shape long-term technical direction. • Proven ability to balance big-picture strategic thinking with hands-on involvement. Willing to roll up sleeves and understand details in a lean organization. • Experience successfully managing fully remote, distributed teams. • Track record of hiring, developing, and mentoring senior technical leaders. • Demonstrated leadership through change. • Must have the current and continuing right to work in the United States of America without restrictions or expirations.