VP of Software Engineering - Aquatic Informatics

Hach•Loveland, CO

20d

About The Position

Aquatic Informatics (AQI), a Veralto company, is a mission-driven software company that organizes water data and provides software for water data management, analytics, and compliance. Its solutions serve more than 1,000 organizations in over 60 countries. AQI is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices in the United States and Australia. Reporting to the Vice President & General Manager, the VP of Software Engineering leads AQI’s software engineering organization and defines the architectural and platform strategy that enables the Product roadmap. The leader balances strategic direction with direct technical engagement to unblock teams, challenge assumptions, and accelerate delivery. They lead engineering, architecture, DevOps, and platform teams to modernize legacy products, scale cloud and on-premises solutions, apply AI to accelerate development, and deliver high-quality software that helps customers use water data and analytics to improve water management. The candidate should be based in Vancouver, British Columbia, or Loveland, Colorado. The role requires approximately 20% travel, including travel to Canada and the United States. The salary range is $225,000–$275,000 CAD for candidates based in Canada and $250,000–$300,000 USD per year for U.S. candidates. Compensation depends on factors including skills, experience, education, and location.

Requirements

15 or more years of software engineering experience, ideally including at least 7 years in engineering leadership roles.
Proven ability to lead software organizations through scale, modernization, platform evolution, and improved delivery speed.
Experience leading leaders in multi-layer engineering organizations, including coaching autonomous senior managers without becoming a gatekeeper or micromanager.
Strong technical depth across software architecture, cloud-native and on-premises platforms, Azure and AWS, APIs, DevOps practices, and scalable enterprise software systems.
A track record of measurable impact, such as accelerating development, improving product release velocity, modernizing platforms, increasing quality, reducing complexity, or enabling customer and business outcomes.
A mission-driven mindset and genuine interest in using water data, analytics, and technology to support water conservation, chemical and energy savings, environmental impact, and smarter water management.

Responsibilities

Define and execute AQI’s architecture and platform strategy in partnership with Product Management, translating product direction into technical plans that support faster, scalable delivery.
Lead a distributed engineering organization of approximately 60–80 associates, including a senior L2 leadership team across Canada, the United States, and India.
Modernize legacy code, platforms, and products while supporting cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises solutions across Azure and AWS environments.
Accelerate software delivery and product releases while maintaining quality, security, reliability, and customer impact.
Establish engineering excellence through modern Agile and DevOps practices, architectural governance, prioritization, trade-off decisions, and execution rigor.
Leverage AI for coding and development acceleration, and potentially support AI-enabled product capabilities for customers.
Coach, mentor, and inspire engineering leaders while fostering collaboration, accountability, followership, and a team-first culture.