VP of Engineering

Computrition, Inc.

6d • Remote

About The Position

Computrition, Inc., a leader in enterprise foodservice and nutrition management technology, is seeking a Vice President of Engineering. As part of Constellation Software Inc., Computrition offers stability and the opportunity to shape the future of enterprise software. The company is investing in modern technologies, AI-enabled engineering, and innovative product capabilities. They foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and professional growth. This role is ideal for someone looking to build impactful technology and advance their career with a stable, innovative company. The Vice President of Engineering will lead the core engineering organization, including R&D and application engineering, and partner with QA, Release Management, and DevOps to enhance estimation, quality, delivery predictability, automation, and operational excellence. Reporting to the CTO, this role is accountable for engineering execution, software quality, delivery predictability, operational excellence, engineering estimation, and the evolution of the AI-enabled Software Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC). Success requires collaboration with Product, Sales, Professional Services, Customer Success, Support, Marketing, and executive leadership to ensure Engineering delivers solutions meeting customer needs and business objectives. The role will be measured by the ability to build a disciplined, predictable engineering organization that consistently delivers high-quality software, enables AI-enhanced product capabilities, improves estimation accuracy and delivery predictability, and earns confidence through consistent execution. This is a fully remote position open to candidates in the United States or Canada, with occasional travel required.

Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including at least 7 years leading engineering organizations of increasing scope and responsibility.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering organizations responsible for mission-critical enterprise software.
• Experience owning engineering operating budgets, workforce planning, vendor management, and engineering investment prioritization.
• Deep technical credibility across Microsoft enterprise technologies including .NET, C#, React, and Oracle.
• Demonstrated hands-on leadership implementing AI-enabled Software Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) or comparable AI-augmented software engineering practices.
• Experience integrating AI/ML and intelligent automation into enterprise software products and engineering operations.
• Demonstrated success improving engineering estimation, capacity planning, delivery forecasting, execution predictability, and engineering operating disciplines.
• Demonstrated success establishing engineering operating metrics, executive dashboards, and performance measures that improve predictability, transparency, and accountability.
• Strong background in DevOps, CI/CD, quality engineering, release management, and engineering automation.
• Experience operating engineering organizations within SOC 2, HIPAA, and other regulated software environments.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as an executive business partner, contributing beyond Engineering to broader technology strategy, business strategy, commercial outcomes, and customer success.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with FHIR and HL7 is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering as a single accountable organization spanning application engineering, R&D, quality engineering, release management, and DevOps/Infrastructure.
• Support the CTO in shaping the company's long-term technology vision while owning and executing the engineering strategy.
• Drive modernization of the enterprise technology platform (.NET, C#, React, Oracle, DevOps, CI/CD, modern engineering practices).
• Partner with Product leadership to translate product vision into executable engineering roadmaps, resource plans, delivery commitments, and high-quality customer outcomes.
• Develop and execute multi-year engineering investment plans.
• Lead implementation and continuous improvement of the AI-enabled Software Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC).
• Lead engineering execution of AI-enhanced capabilities across the enterprise software platform.
• Establish engineering standards, governance, review practices, and quality controls for AI-assisted development.
• Ensure AI capabilities meet healthcare requirements for accuracy, auditability, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Develop engineering leaders capable of driving organizational excellence, innovation, continuous improvement, and effective adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices.
• Own engineering execution from concept through customer delivery, ensuring solutions are appropriately estimated, staffed, architected, developed, tested, released, and supported with first-time quality.
• Establish industry-leading engineering estimation, capacity planning, and delivery forecasting disciplines.
• Continuously improve engineering estimation accuracy, forecasting precision, resource planning, engineering productivity, and delivery performance.
• Build an engineering organization that consistently delivers high-quality software on predictable schedules and within planned resource commitments.
• Create a culture where first-time quality is achieved through disciplined architecture, testing, automation, and engineering excellence.
• Partner with Product, Sales, Professional Services, Customer Success, Support, Marketing, and executive leadership to ensure engineering priorities align with customer needs and business objectives.
• Actively participate in strategic customer engagements.
• Ensure engineering teams understand the customer and business outcomes their work enables.
• Balance customer commitments, platform reliability, engineering capacity, technical debt, and long-term technology investments.
• Own engineering KPIs including engineering estimation accuracy, delivery predictability, engineering velocity, cycle time, defect rates, MTTR, release stability, code quality, and engineering productivity.
• Develop executive dashboards providing transparent insight into engineering performance, forecasting accuracy, quality, productivity, and organizational health.
• Continue advancing CI/CD, automated testing, release automation, developer experience, engineering tooling, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Champion automation wherever it creates measurable business value.
• Build repeatable engineering processes that scale with organizational growth.
• Establish high standards for software quality, maintainability, performance, security, architectural consistency, and AI-assisted software development.
• Partner with Product leadership and the CTO to ensure engineering execution aligns with product strategy, architectural standards, platform evolution, and long-term technology direction.
• Manage technical debt as a strategic investment portfolio.
• Ensure engineering practices consistently satisfy HIPAA, SOC 2, healthcare security standards, and enterprise software best practices.
• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing distributed engineering organization.
• Develop engineering leaders capable of making sound technical and business decisions independently and collaboratively.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, innovation, execution excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Partner across Product, Sales, Professional Services, Customer Success, Support, Marketing, and executive leadership to solve enterprise-wide challenges.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CTO.
• Represent Engineering confidently with executive leadership, customers, and strategic partners.

Benefits

• The job description mentions investment in people, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and professional growth, and opportunities to make a meaningful impact and grow careers. Specific benefits like health insurance, retirement plans, or paid time off are not detailed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed