Vice President | Operations Development

CBIZ

21h•Remote

About The Position

Set and communicate the enterprise engineering strategy aligned to business objectives, risk posture, and regulatory expectations. Lead multiple directors and senior managers; establish operating rhythms, governance, and decision-making across portfolios. Own multi-year roadmaps for modernization (cloud adoption, platform engineering, data/AI enablement, legacy rationalization). Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Compliance to ensure delivery readiness and auditability. Oversee delivery of large programs across lines of business, ensuring predictable execution, quality, and measurable outcomes. Manage budgets, vendor strategy, sourcing, and capacity planning; optimize spend while improving throughput. Establish organizational standards for SDLC, DevSecOps, incident management, and operational excellence. Drive talent strategy including hiring, succession planning, leadership development, and culture-building.

Requirements

Executive-level leadership in enterprise software engineering, with strong financial/regulatory domain understanding (SOX, SOC, PCI, FFIEC, internal audits).
Strong architecture fluency across distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven design, and integration patterns.
Deep experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), platform engineering, CI/CD, observability, and resiliency engineering.
Proven ability to lead transformations that improve security posture, availability, and delivery velocity.
Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication; ability to translate strategy into execution.
Strong financial acumen: budgeting, forecasting, ROI analysis, vendor negotiation, and investment prioritization.
Organizational design and change management expertise; builds high-performing, inclusive teams.
The successful candidate will be credentialed in applicable areas of expertise (i.e. law, accounting, tax, product/services) with at least ten years of relevant experience in the field or industry.
Must have strengths in leadership and management from a strategic perspective.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, collaborative with internal groups to reach workable solutions, able to anticipate problems, creatively assess alternatives and manage conflicts.

Nice To Haves

15+ years in software/technology, with 7+ years leading leaders (managers/directors) and large portfolios.
Proven experience delivering enterprise systems in regulated and highly audited environments.
Demonstrated success leading cloud modernization and/or large-scale application transformation.
Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s (MBA or MSCS) preferred.
Strong track record of building inclusive, high-performing teams and leaders.

Responsibilities

Set and communicate the enterprise engineering strategy aligned to business objectives, risk posture, and regulatory expectations.
Lead multiple directors and senior managers; establish operating rhythms, governance, and decision-making across portfolios.
Own multi-year roadmaps for modernization (cloud adoption, platform engineering, data/AI enablement, legacy rationalization).
Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Compliance to ensure delivery readiness and auditability.
Oversee delivery of large programs across lines of business, ensuring predictable execution, quality, and measurable outcomes.
Manage budgets, vendor strategy, sourcing, and capacity planning; optimize spend while improving throughput.
Establish organizational standards for SDLC, DevSecOps, incident management, and operational excellence.
Drive talent strategy including hiring, succession planning, leadership development, and culture-building.
Successfully delivered enterprise modernization programs (cloud migration, platform re-architecture, or core system modernization) with measurable business impact.
Improved reliability and operational performance through standardized incident management, SRE practices, and observability.
Reduced time-to-market by implementing portfolio-level delivery governance, reusable platforms, and automated pipelines.
Achieved repeatable audit and compliance outcomes across multiple portfolios through stronger controls, documentation, and security practices.
Built and retained high-performing leadership teams; established succession plans for critical roles.
Champion enterprise patterns and shared platforms (identity, integration, logging/telemetry, CI/CD) to reduce duplication and increase velocity.
Drive adoption of cloud-native and zero-trust architectures to improve security and scalability.
Establish data and AI enablement strategies (governance, MLOps, responsible use, automation) aligned to business outcomes.
Lead proofs-of-concept and portfolio experiments to validate new technologies and de-risk strategic bets.
Coach directors and senior managers on strategy execution, organizational health, and leadership effectiveness.
Develop leadership pipelines through mentorship, targeted development plans, and succession planning.
Promote a culture of accountability, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
Sponsor communities of practice and knowledge-sharing across engineering disciplines.