Vice President, Development Effectiveness

Echo Health Inc•Westlake, OH

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Lead the continuous improvement of software development execution by driving accountability, enhancing engineering practices, improving delivery predictability, and ensuring technology initiatives are completed efficiently, consistently, and with high quality. The VP of Development Effectiveness is responsible for ensuring technology initiatives are executed effectively, development teams operate efficiently, and software engineering practices continuously improve. This role drives accountability for delivery, removes organizational obstacles, establishes best practices, and creates a culture of continuous improvement across development teams. They bridge the gap between business strategy and engineering execution, ensuring that development lifecycles are efficient, modern, and aligned with overall corporate goals.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
10+ years of progressive IT leadership experience in software development, engineering, or technology operations.
5+ years leading engineering organizations or software delivery teams.
Demonstrated success improving software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes across multiple teams.
Experience leading enterprise-scale Agile transformation initiatives.
Experience working with executive leadership to align technology delivery with business objectives.
Experience managing cross-functional teams without necessarily having direct authority over all participants.
Deep understanding of modern software engineering practices, including: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean principles, DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, Software architecture and design principles, Test automation and quality engineering, Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), Source control and branching strategies, Release management.
Familiarity with engineering metrics and dashboards.
Experience applying to AI tools to SDLC or functional business areas.
Proven ability to influence organizational change.
Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
Ability to build consensus across development, QA, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders.
Strong conflict resolution and facilitation skills.
Process Improvement Expertise
Metrics and Analytics Expertise
Data-driven decision maker.
Passionate about continuous improvement.
Champions engineering excellence over bureaucracy.
Balances speed with quality.
Builds strong partnerships across the organization.
Comfortable challenging existing processes with thoughtful, evidence-based recommendations.
Focuses on enabling teams rather than creating additional oversight.
Demonstrates ownership, accountability, and a bias toward execution.

Responsibilities

Lead the execution of strategic technology initiatives and development projects by aligning priorities, coordinating teams, and maintaining focus on measurable delivery outcomes.
Drive timely, in-scope project delivery while ensuring outcomes meet established quality standards and business expectations.
Maintain executive visibility into team commitments, delivery milestones, risks, dependencies, and decision points.
Proactively remove delivery roadblocks and escalate critical issues that could affect timelines, scope, or quality.
Establish clear ownership and accountability for project outcomes across development teams and supporting stakeholders.
Align software development priorities with enterprise strategy to ensure technology investments support business objectives and deliver measurable return on investment.
Define and continuously refine software development methodologies that improve execution consistency, delivery quality, and team effectiveness.
Standardize development practices across teams to promote repeatable execution, shared expectations, and scalable delivery discipline.
Strengthen planning, estimation, sprint execution, and release management processes to improve predictability and reduce delivery variability.
Accelerate adoption of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and modern engineering practices to reduce bottlenecks, improve release speed, and strengthen delivery scalability.
Use data-driven metrics to evaluate development efficiency, identify improvement opportunities, and guide continuous process optimization.
Establish AI-enabled development practices with appropriate governance, controls, and measurement frameworks to assess cost, effectiveness, and business value.
Establish and enforce engineering standards for coding practices, peer reviews, automated testing, and release readiness.
Improve software quality, reliability, scalability, and maintainability through disciplined engineering practices and continuous feedback loops.
Reduce technical debt through structured assessment, prioritization, remediation planning, and sustained execution discipline.
Promote secure development practices and compliance alignment by embedding security, privacy, and regulatory requirements into the development lifecycle.
Serve as the relationship owner for offshore development partners including the build out of the appropriate monitoring and improvement programs to improve our leveraging of these relationships.
Develop and mentor development managers, technical leads, and engineering teams to strengthen leadership capability and execution effectiveness.
Foster a high-accountability culture grounded in ownership, continuous learning, collaboration, and measurable improvement.
Align team priorities, goals, and capacity with organizational objectives to ensure development resources are focused on the highest-value outcomes.
Support staffing strategy, performance management, talent development, and succession planning to build resilient and scalable engineering teams.
Strengthen collaboration across development, infrastructure, security, product, and business stakeholders to improve alignment, execution speed, and shared accountability.
Advance talent development and engineering culture by strengthening technical upskilling, team management practices, collaboration, and sustained high-performance expectations.
Define, monitor, and communicate key engineering performance indicators that provide visibility into execution health, delivery effectiveness, and continuous improvement progress.
Provide regular executive reporting on delivery progress, engineering performance, risk trends, and measurable improvement outcomes.