VP of Technology & Innovation

IntelliShift

1d•$260,000 - $280,000•Remote

About The Position

As the VP of Technology & Innovation at IntelliShift, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the company’s technology vision and strategy. You will collaborate closely with product leadership to ensure that technology and architecture decisions align with both immediate and long-term business objectives, delivering high-quality customer experiences while balancing technical initiatives and new feature development. This role involves building and scaling high-performing software engineering and QA teams, fostering a culture of innovation, and driving the adoption of AI tools across the organization. You will oversee enterprise software architecture, IT infrastructure, and critical business systems, ensuring security, reliability, and scalability. Additionally, you will evaluate emerging technologies, manage budgets, and guide the organization through best practices in cybersecurity, compliance, and disaster recovery. Your leadership will be instrumental in advancing IntelliShift’s mission to empower fleet and operations teams with transformative insights and operational efficiency.

Requirements

Extensive Experience with leveraging Microsoft Azure and AWS for enterprise SaaS application hosting
Extensive Experience with Microsoft 365 Administration and Security Best Practices
Experience with Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Database management preferred
Experience with building enterprise grade stream-processing platforms leveraging modern technologies like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, or Azure Eventhubs
Experience managing Software Engineering organizations that include web application and mobile application engineering and quality assurance engineering
Have been responsible for the cyber security of a software company with a cloud-hosted solution helping organization navigate SOC 2 compliance
Experience managing the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans of an IoT platform
Knowledge of best practices and experience with building B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. (Hardware product experience is a plus)
Strong knowledge and extensive experience with enterprise software architecture design
8+ years of IT leadership experience
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Telematics, Video Telematics and/or fleet technology experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the Product Leader to assess optimal technology and architecture decisions to meet the product and GTM requirements of the product organization focusing on the short term and long-term vision of the product, delivering high quality customer experiences, while balancing technical initiatives and new feature builds.
Develop and implement comprehensive IT strategies aligned with business objectives.
Ensure technology investments drive competitive advantage and long-term value.
Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to determine their potential impact on the organization.
Help build and scale multiple software engineering teams and QA teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Mentor and develop team members, including hiring, training, and performance evaluation.
Manage the software engineering department's budget, resource allocation, and project prioritization aligned with the Product roadmap and strategy
Provide technical guidance and direction for the engineering teams
Promote healthy design patterns and architectural philosophy across IntelliShift development teams
Guide the architecture and engineering teams in the continual evolution of architecture principles and best practices
Drive the use of AI tools across the Engineering & QA teams
Facilitate technical debates around design options and helping steer the team to the best near term and long-term solutions
Help architects clearly articulate and document design patterns to clarify the work for the engineering team
Develop and manage enterprise software application architecture and infrastructure
Develop and manage the technological infrastructure, including organizational information systems, IT support, software applications, etc.
Ongoing assessment of technology and architecture – reviewing technical debt to ensure the application hosting environment
Identify new technologies and opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and cost of the application hosting environment
Implement and maintain critical IT systems, including ensuring application system security, disaster recovery systems and cybersecurity processes and procedures
Build vendor relationships, purchase new technology, software, an equipment as needed, and manage budgets
Identify new technologies and opportunities to improve systems and processes.