VP, Software Applications

HP • Spring, TX

7d

About The Position

Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the application software vision, roadmap, and architecture aligned to enterprise strategy and product portfolios. Technical Ownership: Drive architectural direction across cloud, edge, and device software, ensuring seamless integration with hardware platforms. Product Development: Partner with product management, UX, and hardware engineering to translate customer needs into differentiated software solutions. Engineering Excellence: Champion modern software engineering practices, CI/CD, DevOps, test automation, observability, and agile delivery at scale. Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and scale a global engineering team of 200+ engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with hardware engineering, business unit partners, operations, and customer support to ensure robust, reliable, and secure products. Talent Development: Attract, retain, and develop top software and hardware-aware engineering talent; build strong succession pipelines for leadership. Governance & Quality: Establish and enforce best practices in software security, compliance, and reliability. Metrics & Outcomes: Define and deliver on KPIs around productivity, velocity, quality, uptime, customer satisfaction, and financial impact.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering leadership experience, with at least 7+ years in executive leadership roles.
• Proven success leading large-scale engineering teams (200+ engineers) in a Fortune 500 or comparable global enterprise environment.
• Deep technical expertise in application software development, with strong knowledge of cloud services, distributed systems, APIs, and data platforms.
• Strong grounding in hardware/software integration, device drivers, embedded systems, or similar cross-domain experience.
• Demonstrated architectural leadership with modern technology stacks, programming frameworks, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Track record of delivering customer-facing software products at scale, balancing speed, quality, and cost.
• Exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence at C-suite and board levels.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree (MS/MBA/PhD)

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the application software vision, roadmap, and architecture aligned to enterprise strategy and product portfolios.
• Drive architectural direction across cloud, edge, and device software, ensuring seamless integration with hardware platforms.
• Partner with product management, UX, and hardware engineering to translate customer needs into differentiated software solutions.
• Champion modern software engineering practices, CI/CD, DevOps, test automation, observability, and agile delivery at scale.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a global engineering team of 200+ engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration.
• Work closely with hardware engineering, business unit partners, operations, and customer support to ensure robust, reliable, and secure products.
• Attract, retain, and develop top software and hardware-aware engineering talent; build strong succession pipelines for leadership.
• Establish and enforce best practices in software security, compliance, and reliability.
• Define and deliver on KPIs around productivity, velocity, quality, uptime, customer satisfaction, and financial impact.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees