Vice President of Technology & Architecture - Remote
DISHER is currently partnering with a global supply chain solutions company on their VP of Technology & Architecture opportunity. In this role, you will be responsible for shaping their multi-year technical strategy and leading engineering execution. This is a succession planning role that will prepare this person to become a Chief Technology Officer. You will translate company strategy into architectural vision, lead transformative technology initiatives, and position the company for its next phase of growth, all while building and mentoring high-performing teams.
What it's like to work here:
This organization is a technology-driven organization. You'll join a lean, high-performing technical organization where strategic influence is significant and your work will directly shape the company's direction over the next 3-5 years. The culture values innovation, adaptability, and continuous learning. The engineering teams are hungry, collaborative, and have successfully adapted to emerging technologies and tools.
What you will get to do:
- 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.
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