VICE PRESIDENT, ENGINEERING

Seattle, WA__

At Globys, we develop a cloud-based billing portal platform that enables business customers of all sizes to self-serve and securely transact with their providers. Our platform is used by companies around the world, including T-Mobile, Vodafone, and TELUS to deliver exceptional portal experiences to their customers while significantly reducing costly manual processes. Our patented technology processes massive amounts of data and provides end users with a unified and personalized view of their accounts and services. This is an opportunity to work with large scale data systems and visualizations to solve real-world business problems for some of the world’s largest and most innovative companies.

Globys is quickly expanding & improving our B2B portal experience. We are embarking on some new and exciting challenges. With this, we are looking for a Vice President of Engineering to join our Seattle team. This position will report to our CEO, be a member of our Senior Leadership team and have worldwide team management responsibility.

Our ideal candidate will have proven technical leadership capabilities, a deep technical acumen to provide mentorship and coaching, strong process and efficiency skills to streamline our development and deployment process, a passion for solving complex and strategically important business problems and a collaborative and influential working partnership across multiple distributed teams. In this global role, moderate amounts of international travel will be required.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Build and lead a high-performance team that thrives in an agile development environment.

• Foster an environment of continual improvement through regular technical debt reduction and an architectural strategy plan.

• Help to streamline our engineering process and procedure to ensure our team is operating at full capacity and is supported by a modern-day development process.

• Using extensive management skills and experience, develop technical and managerial leadership skills and create a vibrant culture of mutual support and motivation.

• Stay in sync with multiple development and product teams, routinely reviewing specs and roadmaps to assure development cycles stay on time and are of the highest quality.

• Develop and drive release management, testing, and deployment practices that increase timeliness, efficiency, and quality of code and deployments.

• Direct and control the activities of the engineering teams.

• Develop organizational design and global blueprint that will increase the overall efficacy of our engineering.

• Set organizational priorities, resource trade-offs, and operating models to meet business priorities.

• Ensure that the core technology and professional services organizations are operating at maximum efficiency with appropriate levels of maintenance whilst constantly fostering the ability to innovate and grow.

• Set technology standards and direct the execution of initiatives from inception through execution.

• Ensure systems have high availability and performance.

• Work closely with PMO in developing capacity models to forecast the delivery schedule for team project portfolio, model different scenarios, and future project resource needs.

• Define key metrics and analytics for measuring the performance of the development teams.

• Provide planning support for 2 to 3-year view on technology and/or operational strategies for the business unit(s) supported.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND PROFICIENCIES TO BE SUCCESSFUL:

• Demonstrated leadership building out complex software.

• Experience delivering high-quality software design and development including experience with RESTful web services and microservices.

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise and/or web development. Strong knowledge of C# and JavaScript preferred. Bonus points for experience with WebAPI and MVC.

• Strong experience with one of the web frameworks such as React (preferred), Bootstrap, Backbone, Angular, and Vue.

• 10+ years of engineering management experience, preferably with 5+ years of increasing leadership responsibilities with management of distributed teams.

• Strong background in driving large technical projects from conception to rollout/production.

• Experience in managing production incidents with a repeatable process.

• Ability to use “just enough” metrics to make data-driven decisions without losing flexibility.

• Experience working in scaled, multi-team Agile/SCRUM development programs.

• Knowledge of cutting-edge technologies and toolkits.

• Minimum of BS in Computer Science or in a related field.

• Requires international travel

THIS POSITION WILL BE A GREAT FIT FOR YOU IF:

• You love being a part of a distributed, dynamic, and fast-paced team that encourages you to learn and grow.

• You desire to work with some of the world’s top telecom brands.

• You like to dig in and get to work.

• You love finding solutions to interesting problems and figuring out how things work.

• You welcome having autonomy with complex tasks.

• You are passionate about using your experience and expertise to inspire the team.

• Strong dedication to creating a vibrant culture of personal growth.

• A keen sense of humor and avid curiosity.

• Obsessive focus on the customer.