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We are working with a global logistics leader who has spent the last 60 years helping the world's top companies enter new markets, scale their operations, and accelerate growth. As an end-to-end supply chain partner, the company provides comprehensive services, including inventory management, transportation, warehousing, and global trade solutions.
Currently, they are looking to hire a VP of Software Development to oversee the development and maintenance of these critical applications.
The Role You’ll Play
As the VP of Software Development, you will lead the agile Dev and QA teams responsible for building, deploying and supporting the company's proprietary software applications. In this strategic role, you will set the engineering vision and work closely with the IT Infrastructure, Product Management and Application Support functions to drive the technical roadmap and optimize the software development lifecycle.
- Manage and lead an in-house technical team of approximately 20 people, including Development Directors, Quality Assurance, and Project Management.
- Define and enforce software development and quality assurance processes to improve quality, predictability and cost-efficiency.
- Design application architectures to ensure reliability, scalability and stability of systems.
- Oversee the implementation and continuous improvement of the Software Development Lifecycle Process (SDLC).
- Align technology investments with business priorities and governance oversight.
Background Profile:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, with 10+ years of software development and 10+ years of people management experience.
- Extensive technical background with hands-on experience in software/product development, web technologies, requirements/gap analysis, and roadmapping.
- Expertise in Agile development practices, including story estimation, backlog grooming, standups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
- Proficient in software engineering best practices, such as version control, deployment methodologies, and high-quality documentation.
- Experience re-architecting, integrating, and sunsetting legacy applications.
- Skilled in data modeling, database development, and inferring data models from existing data.
- Proficient in .NET Framework (C#, ASP.net), HTML, XML, SQL.
- Exposure to AWS services like ECR, ALB, ElastiCache, S3, and experience with deployment to AWS ECS.
- Familiarity with software security standards, EDI, and API integrations.
- Background in supply chain, transportation, warehouse, inventory, or 3PL software is highly desired.
- Experience with server-side applications using C in Unix/Linux environments is a plus.
- Knowledge of HTML5, SASS, LESS, React + Redux, TypeScript, and front-end tooling is a plus.