IT VP

GEODIS • Brentwood, TN

2d

About The Position

GEODIS specializes in unlocking business value in a complex world, ensuring seamless movement of goods worldwide. As a global third-party logistics provider (3PL), we power A Better Way to Deliver for the world's top brands and manufacturers. Fuel your career with GEODIS and discover endless growth opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 12+ years of progressive experience in software development or IT, including 5+ years leading large engineering organizations (multiple teams, 50+ people)
• Demonstrated experience running a hybrid estate of legacy and modern workloads and leading phased modernization
• Strong background with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), microservices, APIs, and DevOps practices
• Experience delivering enterprise systems in a 24/7, operations-critical environment
• Track record managing budgets, vendors, offshore/onshore models, and cross-functional initiatives
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage executives, operations leaders, and customers

Responsibilities

• Define and own the Americas IT development roadmap in alignment with business strategy and GEODIS global technology direction.
• Advise executive leadership on technology investments, trade-offs, and risk.
• Lead a pragmatic modernization strategy: decide what to retire, replatform, wrap with APIs, or rebuild, and sequence the work to avoid disrupting live operations.
• Oversee the full software development lifecycle across WMS, TMS, order management, yard and dock systems, billing, and customer portals.
• Drive delivery of customer onboarding and integrations, including EDI, API, and event-based connectivity with shippers, carriers, marketplaces, and ERPs.
• Mature engineering practices: Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, observability, and release management suited to 24/7 operations.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with minimal operational impact.
• Maintain reliability and supportability of legacy and mainframe-era applications while reducing technical debt and key-person risk.
• Lead migration to cloud-native, containerized, API-first architectures, including hybrid and phased coexistence models.
• Establish integration patterns (APIs, messaging, EDI translation) that allow old and new systems to interoperate cleanly.
• Guide adoption of data, analytics, and AI/ML capabilities such as visibility, forecasting, slotting, and automation.
• Lead, mentor, and develop directors, managers, and engineers across multiple teams, including onshore, offshore, and vendor partners.
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning, and upskill teams with legacy expertise on modern tooling.
• Own hiring, succession planning, performance management, and org design.
• Set architectural standards for scalability, resilience, and maintainability, aligned with global architecture governance.
• Partner with Information Security to embed secure development and meet customer, regulatory, and compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, C-TPAT, customer-specific audits).
• Own platform reliability, disaster recovery, and business continuity for operations that cannot go down.
• Own the development budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation.
• Manage software developers, vendors, system integrators, contractors and licensing.
• Report on KPIs such as delivery velocity, quality, uptime, integration cycle time, and cost efficiency.

Benefits

• Access wages early with the Rain financial wellness app.
• Free telemedical access to doctors and therapists through FirstStop Health available first day of employment!
• Health, dental, and vision insurance after 30 days of employment
• 401k match
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Access to career development, employee resource groups, and mentorship programs
• Employee discounts
• Access to employee perks like fitness class discounts and free access to a relaxation and meditation app
• Free financial wellness programs
• Daycare discount program
• Opportunities to volunteer and give back to your community.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive