VP of Engineering - Northwoods Consulting Partners
About The Position
Northwoods Consulting Partners (A Banyan Software Company) On site in Dublin, Ohio, United States About Banyan Software Banyan Software provides the best permanent home for successful enterprise software companies, their employees, and customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build, and grow great enterprise software businesses all over the world that have dominant positions in niche vertical markets. Banyan focuses on a buy-and-hold-for-life strategy for growing software companies that serve specialized vertical markets. About Northwoods Founded in 2003, Northwoods Consulting Partners is a stable, domain-specialized vertical software provider serving state and local Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies across the United States. The company’s mission is to enable caseworkers to focus on More Peoplework. Less Paperwork. The product suite is anchored by: - Traverse: A cloud-native SaaS platform designed for casework, field visits, and documentation. - Compass: An industry leading on-premise document management system. The Opportunity Northwoods is seeking an experienced VP of Engineering to join its executive team. The successful candidate will act as the senior Engineering leader, responsible for driving business growth through technology innovation, setting quality benchmarks, standardizing practices, and building a more durable Engineering organization. This leader will oversee the consolidation and modernization of a bifurcated technology stack, ensuring excellence in security, operations, and modern software development practices and will work across the company to align the technology strategy with business objectives.
Requirements
- Extensive experience (10+ years) in senior engineering leadership roles, such as VP of Engineering, Director of Engineering, or similar.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, particularly the AWS ecosystem: EKS, EC2, Lambda, PostgreSQL, S3, and so on.
- Proven technical depth in the current modern stack: Ruby on Rails, React/TypeScript, and modern CI/CD.
- Experience in managing, maintaining, and modernizing C# / .NET Framework applications and complex installer/deployment tooling (MSI, WiX).
- Prior experience with security compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA) and implementing preventative security controls (SAST, SCA).
- Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change, adopt new technologies, such as Generative AI.
- 3-5 years of experience managing offshore teams
- 2-3 years of experience leveraging AI to support the SDLC process to improve team efficiency with working examples
- Working experience using Cursor, Microsoft Co-Pilot, GitHub or similar AI tools in coding practice with measurable results.
Responsibilities
- Define a unifying engineering strategy and roadmap for managing the success of customers, leveraging Compass and Traverse while designing our next-generation offerings with an AI first mindset.
- Establish clear architectural governance and set consistent technical direction across the entire product portfolio.
- Drive the evaluation and standardization of CI/CD practices and modern DevOps pipelines to enable scalable, efficient SaaS delivery.
- Lead the adoption and institutionalization of a GenAI-assisted approach to increase engineering throughput.
- Advance the use of GenAI and emerging technologies within the product to benefit customers and the next generation of innovation.
- Evaluate and refine the engineering organization to ensure an effective structure, strong leadership, and a culture that fosters innovation, continuous skill development, and scalable growth.
- Implement continuous improvement in AWS operations, monitoring, services, cost profiles and core engineering processes.
- Set measurable engineering goals that track output, identify improvement opportunities, and drive accountability.
- Implement continuous improvement in the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC) while supporting compliance and industry standard practices.
- Oversee incident response, vulnerability management, and security posture.
- Lead Business Continuity (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DRP) readiness efforts.
- Align Northwoods products with state HHS regulations and case management needs.
- Lead interoperability efforts with systems like SACWIS, CCWIS, Medicaid, and SNAP/TANF.
- Maintain awareness of federal and state technology frameworks (ACF, CMS, NIEM, NC Child Welfare Data Framework).
Benefits
- Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
- Opportunity to work with a passionate and talented team on cutting-edge technologies.
- Continuous learning and career development opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
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