Vice President of Engineering

About the VP of Engineering Role:

We are looking for an experienced VP of Engineering with a strong technical background from a product development company and, ideally, ERP product development experience to lead the development of our Financials suite,  grow our Financials engineering team in India, and lead matrix-managed engineering in India for our Budgeting & Planning and Citizen Services suites.

As a VP of Engineering, you’ll ensure healthy collaboration with our product & design teams to deliver new foundations and new features in an agile development environment. We favor frequent releases, so you will drive and motivate your team by encouraging innovation and creativity while ensuring that we meet our high-quality standards. You will be a part of our global R&D leadership organization, collaborating across locations and time zones including the United States, Argentina, Ukraine, and India. The international nature of our R&D organization adds excitement and distinction to OpenGov.

This position will be based in the US on the East Coast with high preference given to candidates in the following metro areas: Boston, Tampa, and Washington DC.

You will:

• Lead the inception of new products and initiatives as well as continue the ongoing development and maintenance of existing software products.
• Mentor & develop engineers, managers, and directors to realize their full potential in a fast-paced development organization, identifying and developing future leaders.
• Contribute to OpenGov’s Engineering culture of customer centric innovation, leading-edge technology adoption, and high quality.
• Provide software design guidance and lend your engineering and management experience to the team, guiding the overall architecture, and design as well as keeping track of the complete development process.
• Adopt forward-looking, new technologies to boost existing operations.
• Establish and evolve development, test, and delivery processes that align with the whole engineering organization, ensuring efficient and quality product delivery releases.
• Marshall  cross-functional execution of the key R&D functions including Architecture, EngOps, Product Management, and Design to deliver the highest quality products to market
• Deliver and support quality, scalable, and supportable software to customers at an impressive pace.
• Bring thought leadership to tackle new challenges in the technology world, preparing your team to explore new frontiers
• Work closely with the Product Management and Sales team to understand the critical issues customers and facing and get them resolved.
• Proactively Manage by not only solving problems when they arise but identifying areas of concern and addressing them before they become problems.
• Identify people and leader-related problems such as performance, cultural misfits, org design, etc., and fix them.
• Uplevel processes within your group and across groups and functions.
• Communicate strategic messages by shaping and making the news, not just reporting it.
• Connect the team charter with the broader company strategy and roadmap by planning with cross-functional counterparts and investing in long-term system architecture evolution.  
  

You get excited by:

• Building and scaling a globally distributed high-performance team
• Delighting customers with usable, high-quality, innovative products
• Developing your multi-disciplinary team to be confident, self-sufficient key contributors
• Organizing your team and backlogs to accelerate velocity
• Modern technology, tools and processes
• Cloud-based software delivery on a global-scale
• Managing, delivering and testing asynchronous software, microservices & data in a SaaS environment
  

Your qualifications:

• A Bachelor/Master's degree in computer science from a premier institution with 20+ years of experience and a successful track record of leading deliveries of SaaS products.
• Experience developing highly usable ERP, integration software, workflow engines and/or platforms.
• 5+ years managing high-performing geographically distributed software-engineering teams using an agile methodology
• 5+ years of cloud Transformation / Migration (AWS and/or Azure)
• Excellent product life cycle experience
• Ability to engage with Sales, Professional Services, and the C-Level team to articulate a product roadmap, share development status, and explain team needs.
• Experience in multi-tenant SAS applications, preferably in enterprise software
• Visible leadership abilities to motivate a high-energy, enthusiastic team and make them successful leaders  
• Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD practices
• Exposure to shipping software on AWS or Azure
• Hands-on development experience with object-oriented software development
• Experience and knowledge of distributed database technologies and architecture
• Experience in operations and incident management for mission-critical SaaS software
• BA/BS in a computer-science or related discipline
  

The perfect candidate has:

• Experience working on ERP, Accounting, or Budgeting products
• Experience working closely with customer success and/or collaborating with field teams
• Exposure to US Government clients Experience with functional programming
• Domain knowledge in Finance and/or Accounting