Vice President - Information Technology

• Owns and establishes sub-function strategy
• Decisions in scope of this role have a significant impact on business results and enterprise practices
• Aligning with company goals and OKRs
• Preparing and allocating budgets and ensuring tracking of the budgets per plan
• Set performance and financial goals and attain them through team direction and management
• Assess, evaluate, and report on overall team and individual team member performance through a scorecard review process
• Ensure compliance with company policies and local, regional and federal regulations
• Build and approve the department’s hiring plan
• Guide and support Directors and managers and develop team talent

• Prioritizing SaaS and cloud-native solutions over legacy systems

• Implementing AI-driven software engineering (Copilot, AI-assisted coding, test automation)
• Automating DevSecOps to ensure continuous security and compliance

• Designing applications with an event-driven and composable architecture (Kafka, Pub/Sub)

• Integrating real-time data pipelines for decision-making
• Leveraging AI-powered insights for proactive issue resolution

• Embedding Zero Trust principles into application security
• Ensuring compliance automation with regulatory standards

• Providing developer self-service platforms (Internal Developer Portals, Backstage.io)
• Automating onboarding, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code
• Investing in developer productivity and upskilling in AI, cloud, and security

• Oversee core enterprise infrastructure operations across SEI globally, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Lead platform engineering efforts to enable reusable, secure, and standardized platform capabilities across business units.
• Own and drive the enterprise data infrastructure strategy, including data platforms, pipelines, and governance frameworks.
• Manage identity and access management (IAM) capabilities, ensuring secure and compliant user access across systems.
• Lead the cloud infrastructure strategy across SEI, including public cloud adoption, hybrid cloud models, and cost optimization.
• Establish and scale DevSecOps practices, embedding security throughout the development and deployment lifecycle.
• Define and enforce enterprise-wide technology standards for platforms, infrastructure, and operations to ensure global consistency.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to drive platform modernization initiatives that align with SEI’s digital transformation goals.

• Vision for enterprise technology modernization

• Ability to align IT applications with business growth
• Experience leading large, distributed, and AI-enabled engineering teams
• Strong stakeholder management and communications capability with C-suite and business leaders

• Cloud-native architectures preferably Google Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS ecosystems
• Experience with microservices, API-led development, and event-driven architectures
• Deep understanding of AI/ML in software development & automation
• Proficiency in DevSecOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering best practices
• Expertise in enterprise integration, middleware, and data pipelines

• Experience leveraging AI-powered development tools
• Strong knowledge of AI-driven observability, self-healing applications
• Hands-on experience with hyper-automation (RPA, AI-Ops, ChatOps)

• Proven experience in agile transformation at scale
• Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Spotify model, or similar
• Ability to drive cultural change towards an experimentation mindset

• Deep understanding of Zero Trust, application security, and compliance frameworks
• Experience with automated security testing & AI-driven threat modeling

• Ability to attract, retain, and upskill top engineering talent
• Ability to design and implement sub-function strategies
• Work with a global team mindset
• Excellent communication skills and ability to convey complex issues in a concise and clear manner.
• Displayed business acumen and enterprise awareness.

• 15+ years in software engineering, with at least 5 years leading large teams

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field; advanced degree preferred

• Must be able to travel occasionally should a business need arise. For most roles travel would not be common. Travel may involve plane, car or metro. In accordance with ADA policies, reasonable accommodations regarding travel limitations can be provided. Travel will be more common for roles such as Account Executives (25 - 50%), senior leaders (10 – 20%) or Capella Core Faculty (5 – 10%).
• Ability to work onsite in Corporate or Campus location (in a typical office environment) may be required based on role. If so, this would include being mobile within the office, including movement from floor-to-floor using elevators or stairs.
• If offsite or hybrid role, must have access to work in setting which enables meeting all requirements of the role (including privacy, reliable internet access, phone, ability to video conference, etc.) at a remote location.
• Faculty and Federal Work Study roles require access to work in setting which enables meeting all requirements of the role (including computer, privacy, reliable internet access, phone, ability to video conference, etc.) at a remote location.
• This role may require lifting, however reasonable accommodations will be provided in accordance with our ADA policies.
• Must be able to meet critical thinking and problem solving aspects aligned to job duties, as well as effectively communicating with co-workers.
• Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant. Accommodations related to schedule may be considered.
• Able to access information using a computer.
• Other essential functions and marginal job functions are subject to modification.

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