Vice President, Digital Solutions Engineering

As a successful Vice President, Digital Solutions Engineering, you will be responsible for customer facing software development including but not limited to web apps, mobile apps and website functionality.

You will lead highly talented teams across multiple locations while aligning each team to a unified vision that is collaborated with the Digital Solutions Product team.

The shared vision will be communicated to key stakeholders across the organization including executive leadership. You will partner with an innovative Product Management team, along with Digital Enterprise (IT), Marketing, and Product Engineering, to deliver consistent, high-quality releases.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING (% of Time)

Operations (50%)Develop, Modernize and Sustain the company’s digital solutions software offerings with Digital Solutions Product team & CTO to ensure alignment with our business goals and technology roadmap.

Assess short- & long-term digital solutions software gaps, needs, and opportunities to meet as well as future-proof for changing market conditions.

Drive solutions engineering teams to deliver software organically, partner with best in class or by acquisition to cater to evolving market conditions.

Ensure digital software solutions are future proof and cost-effective, exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.

Stay on the cutting edge of the most innovative technologies to solve our customers most pressing software solution needs.

Work with the market development & product teams to utilize new technologies that yield competitive advantage.Align the development of our software with our strategic digital solutions software goals.

Department Management (50%)Define, revise and optimize solution engineering department’s organizational capabilities & skills as the market evolves and business goals change.

Be the champion on digital technology identification, assessment, application and implementation of best practices, and collaborate with development teams to remove blockers.

Provide leadership regarding SW development, cloud architecture, services consumption, application design, DevOps optimizations and 3rd party integrations while maintaining technical skills and knowledge of digital trends and competitive insights.

Provide mentorship, direction, and enable growth of the following department employees : Software engineering, Software architecture and User Experience teams.

Develop and optimally manage the department’s budget including the tracking of capital projects and costs, such that it maximizes ROIC.

In alignment with the Digital Solutions Product team & CTO, define, monitor, and report analytics / KPI’s to assess digital solutions technological performance.

Use feedback from customers, stakeholders & team members to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to digital solutions.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

If you can do everything listed above, you’ve got what it takes. Perhaps some of the following would be helpful too :

• Master’s degree in software engineering, computer science or relevant field required.
• 10 years of software engineering management experience including design & implementation experience with distributed systems and applications.
• Must have demonstratable experience in transforming on-premises features / products to multi-tenant XaaS solution offerings.

Should have championed successful & quick incubations, scaled deployments, orchestrating cloud native services and infusing key infrastructure technologies (e.

g. connectivity, compute, data management), and application development technologies (e.g. app services, serverless, etc.)

• Software experience in building construction or management industry preferred.
• Experience developing and executing market leading digital solutions in B2B & B2C market.
• Action Oriented : Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
• Collaborates : Builds partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Customer Focus : Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
• Drives Results : Consistently achieving results, even under challenging circumstances
• Instills Trust : Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity
• Ensures Accountability : Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
• Decision Quality : Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward
• Influences : Uses compelling arguments to influence for support and gain commitment of others
• Builds Effective Teams : Building strong-identify, high-performing teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
• Develops Talent : Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals
• Manages Complexity : Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
• Balances Stakeholders : Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders including pushing back, where necessary
• Drives Vision and Purpose : Painting a compelling vision and strategy that motivates others and energizes for action

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, and hear, and sometimes walk and stand.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally push or lift to 25 lbs.This job operates in a professional office environment where standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers / scanners, etc. are frequently used.

TRAVEL REQUIRED

This job requires 35% domestic travel.

WORK STATUS & LOCATION

This full-time, exempt position is located preferrably in the Bay Area, CA or Dallas TX, although remote work can be negotiated.

RELOCATION

Relocation is available for this position.

$200,900 - $301,400 / year

Posted pay range is based upon national average and may vary depending on geographical work location.

REWARDS AT SIMPSON STRONG-TIE

We recognize and reward employees with a carefully designed and comprehensive rewards package, including competitive compensation, quarterly bonuses or commission and first-rate benefits.

May exclude some positions, such as seasonal jobs.

• Quarterly Bonuses / Commission : You will be eligible for either a bonus or commission, paid on a quarterly basis. We believe employees affect customers, sales and revenue directly or indirectly and should be rewarded by sharing the company profits.
• Benefits : We provide a wide range of benefits for eligible full-time employees including : medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, employee stock purchase and bonus plans, pay for holidays, vacation, sick days, funerals and jury duty, years of service awards, employee discounts, employee referral bonuses, charitable contribution matching, education reimbursement and more.
30+ days ago