VP, Head of Infrastructure Engineering and Operations

CI Financial

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Join a team that values your ambition and empowers your growth At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations. We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. If you want to work for a company that values your contributions and supports your growth, we would like to meet you.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure, data, cloud, or platform engineering, with significant leadership responsibility.
Proven experience leading data engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure platforms, and reliability or SRE functions in complex, regulated environments.
Strong background in cloud platforms (Azure preferred), enterprise infrastructure, and modern DevOps practices.
Experience designing operating models across multiple engineering disciplines (cloud, data, SRE).
Demonstrated ability to scale infrastructure through growth and M&A while maintaining stability and security.
Calm, credible leader with a track record of earning trust from senior engineers and executive stakeholders.
Strategic Thinking: Ability to set clear long-term strategies that align goals of the organization and senior leadership
Planning and Oversight: Proven to set clear and actionable plans to deliver on overall strategy in a structured and timely manner
Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire teams towards ambitious outcomes
Talent attraction: act as a talent magnet to recruit, and develop industry-leading talent
Critical Thinking: Ability to analyze complex problems and identify clear and actionable pathways to resolution
Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate strategy and performance metrics to stakeholders
Collaboration: Strong ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
Adaptability: Comfortable operating in a dynamic and high-growth environment with limited structure
Must be 18 years of age or older.
Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.
For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end strategy, design, and operation of Corient’s infrastructure, including cloud platforms, data platform foundations, as well as monitoring and reliability tooling.
Ensure infrastructure is scalable, secure, observable, and resilient across growth and acquisition scenarios.
Drive standardization where it accelerates scale, while allowing flexibility where business or regulatory realities require it.
Provide senior leadership and oversight for data platform engineering, including data pipelines, data movement, and data platform foundations.
Establish clear ownership boundaries between data platform engineering, analytics, and infrastructure to ensure accountability for data reliability and scalability.
Closely partner with Data & Analytics leaders to support growth, M&A integration, and regulatory data requirements.
Lead cloud engineering, including architecture standards, security controls, access governance, FinOps, and long-term scalability.
Oversee DevOps tooling, and automation to enable safe, repeatable deployments.
Partner with enterprise platforms, data, and security teams to support integration and modernization initiatives.
Establish and grow Corient’s reliability engineering functions, including observability, platform and data pipeline health monitoring, capacity management, and incident enablement.
Ensure systems are observable end-to-end, with actionable signals that enable fast diagnosis and prevention of major incidents.
Identify opportunities to automate processes.
Develop and own incident response playbooks, escalation paths, and after-action reviews.
Own disaster recovery and business continuity across infrastructure and data platforms.
Partner with the CTO, technology strategy, enterprise platforms, and business leaders to sequence infrastructure investments and tradeoffs.
Ensure infrastructure decisions align with regulatory requirements, risk management standards, and audit expectations.
Build, mentor, and lead high-performing cloud, data engineering, and SRE teams.
Define clear ownership boundaries and operating models across engineering and operations functions.
Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and calm execution under pressure.
Translate technical outcomes into clear business impact for executive stakeholders.