Vice President, Engineering

GAINSystems•Atlanta, GA

47d

About The Position

GAINS is a leading provider of cloud Supply Chain solutions based in downtown Chicago. As part of the Francisco Partners portfolio of specialized companies, we are rapidly growing and expanding our global teams to drive innovation, deliver customer value, and accelerate market leadership. Supply chain volatility has made it difficult for businesses to plan and keep their customer promises. GAINS helps companies address these challenges with innovative solutions leveraging proven AI and ML techniques. Our team of industry and technology experts rapidly delivers transformational value resulting in sustainable and measurable ROI-based impact for our global customers. If you are a technology enthusiast who wants to make an impact, then GAINS is for you.

Requirements

10+ years' experience managing high performance engineering teams of more than 20 engineers, including managers
Experience defining, developing, and delivering scalable, end-to-end cloud-based B2B or B2B2C SaaS, PaaS and/or Marketplace products.
Player/coach mentality with the ability to roll up their sleeves
Experience leading a product migration
Proven track record of building/scaling strong engineering teams with a culture of high productivity, excellent morale, and low turnover in complex and evolving environments.
Expert knowledge of modern engineering concepts and techniques, including agile development methodologies such as Scrum.
Direct experience building, leading, and driving results with offshore development teams.
Experience delivering successful software projects on time and on budget
Superb communication skills - You should be able to cultivate strong working relationships, communicate effectively, write meticulously, and give outstanding presentations
Able to think strategically and see the big picture
Experience structuring teams to align with company objectives, and measuring their performance

Responsibilities

Scale and lead the Engineering, DevOps, and Application Engineering teams.
Build a world-class engineering organization that engineers relish being a part of.
Grow our engineering teams by coaching and mentoring our current leaders - inspire them with a compelling vision & strategy and recruit additional top talent.
From a technology perspective, play a central role, working closely with the CEO, in driving overall technical vision and direction regarding tech stack and platform architecture/evolution.
Lead the company’s technology roadmap and ensure that the platform is scalable, reliable, and secure.
Flawless execution; streamline and drive transparency, efficiency, and cohesion in the engineering organization. Ensure visibility and predictability around engineering processes, systems, etc.
Execution on defined roadmap.
Empower members of the team; Lead, mentor, and elevate the skills and capabilities of the team, and ensure retention of talent.
Recruit and develop top talent within the US and internationally.
Maintain and optimize budgets to meet goals.
Administer, monitor, and deploy large scale systems and service solutions on Azure
Build a comprehensive infrastructure strategy and roadmap to standardize and upgrade global infrastructure and operational services in alignment with business objectives and strategy.
Establish scalable infrastructure platforms, robust asset management processes, and customer delighting service delivery programs. Drive business value creation through technology, process, and service management. Increase user productivity and collaboration.