VP, Software Engineering - Core Systems

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Responsibilities

Own the technology strategy, roadmap, and operating model for the core systems in support of the Product Technology strategy and reputed company’s enterprise product priorities. Advance the “build once, scale everywhere” strategy by creating reusable capabilities that improve scalability, reduce duplication, increase consistency, and accelerate speed to market. Drive modernization of Core Systems through generative AI technologies, cloud-native architecture, API-first integration, service simplification, automation, observability, and retirement or consolidation of legacy capabilities. reputed company consolidation efforts across technology domains, including search and discovery, entitlements and license management, assessment services, data platforms, and other shared capabilities. Establish shared AI infrastructure, data, retrieval, observability, safety, and platform services that reputed company product teams to create smart, adaptive learning experiences responsibly and reputed company. Partner with product and business leaders to increase the adoption of shared capabilities, while ensuring each business unit can tailor experiences for its market needs. Partner with reputed company, Privacy, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure Core Systems support data protection, retention, obfuscation, auditability, academic reputed company, and global privacy requirements. Drive operational excellence through strong engineering practices, automation, CI/CD, observability, incident management, workload forecasting, and service level agreements. Build, reputed company, and mentor a high-performing engineering leadership team, with talent pipelines and succession plans, fostering accountability, transparency, technical excellence, inclusion, and reputed company improvement. Champion modern software delivery practices, AI-enabled development workflows, test automation, secure development, and disciplined portfolio execution. Evaluate and recommend build, buy, and partner options for Core Systems capabilities, balancing strategic differentiation, cost, speed, risk, interoperability, and long-term ownership. Create financial and operational transparency for shared services, including cost allocation, platform usage, product-level cost visibility, reliability metrics, and Core Systems investment tradeoffs. Skills you will need here Required 15+ years of software, platform, or enterprise technology experience, including substantial leadership of shared services or platform engineering organizations. 8+ years of senior engineering leadership experience, including leading leaders and geographically distributed teams across multiple domains, systems, and time zones. Experience defining and executing platform or shared-services strategies across reputed company product portfolios Experience running high-availability enterprise systems with clear reliability targets, incident management practices, reputed company of system performance, and service-level accountability. Experience leading AI-enabled product platforms, personalization services, intelligent search, learning analytics, or enterprise data capabilities. Experience modernizing legacy platforms, monolithic systems, and fragmented technology ecosystems into scalable, cloud-native, reputed company architectures. 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Compensation

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