VP, Paze Engineering

Overall Purpose 

The VP, Paze Engineering will lead the Paze Engineering organization. This position will focus on preparing for exponential growth, seamless integration, and delivering a beautiful customer experience. 

Essential Functions 

• Able to understand and juggle multi-faceted roadmap requirements covering Product asks, Scaling needs, maintenance and security work across the Paze Engineering organization to deliver on success in many areas. 

• Utilizes knowledge and lessons-learned from building enterprise-scale systems in the cloud to help drive best practices, architectures and technology decisions inside the Paze organization. 

• Collaborates closely with Engineering leaders, Architecture, SRE, DevOps and potentially external bank partners (FIs) that may be engaged with us on key efforts over the years. 

• Maintains a very high bar for execution and excellence in the Engineering team, fostering leadership and executive presence throughout; can ‘coach up’ team members and leaders for a highly engaged, high-performing team, and hire top talent into the team to support these large-scale efforts. 

• Identifies opportunities to ship value to Production quickly and in incremental chunks to avoid “big bang” delivery; complex environments benefit from incremental delivery. 

• Builds and delivers well-considered Paze scaling solutions via strong relationships with key stakeholders in the Cloud Engineering and Operations organizations. 

• Ensures software development follows effective quality guidelines and best practices in line with the rest of the Engineering organization. 

• Ensures accurate/reliable information is provided within company standards including all service level agreements, and audit regulations. 

• Ensures solutions are built following our Engineering best practices (e.g., Quality, CI/CD, etc.) 

• Keeps executive-level management informed of department progress and challenges. 

• Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and availability is maintained. 

• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data. The above job description is a summary of job responsibilities and is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.  Incumbents will follow instructions and perform tasks and other duties as assigned by their supervisor. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Education or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent professional experience. 

• Minimum 15 or more years of software engineering experience 

• Minimum 10 years or more experience in leading efforts or processes in a Technology organization. 

• Minimum 5 or more years of software engineering experience dealing with large scale systems in the cloud. 

• Minimum 5 or more years of experience implementing application solutions/ services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines. 

• Minimum 10 years or more of experience in managing an Engineering organization. 

• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership through large-scale system designs, upgrades, and releases. 

• Superior leadership and management skills together with strong business acumen. 

• Demonstrated ability to mentor and energize people showcasing technical and leadership skills. 

• Demonstrated experience with state- of- the- art technology, architecture and design concepts, open-source operating systems, database systems, computer networking, and security. 

• A deep understanding of executing highly scalable, distributed applications in cloud environments. 

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional groups and generate results. 

• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills. Must convey responsiveness and competence when dealing with internal customers, staff, peers, senior management, and vendors. 

• Work experience that demonstrates a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. 

• Background and drug screen. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with large-scale enterprises scaling out operations in Amazon Web Services is highly favorable. 

• Experience with integrations in the Merchant or Banking space is highly applicable as well. 

Physical Requirements 

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work will require standing, walking, kneeling, bending and reaching to identify asset information on fixed hardware. Must be able to lift up to 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers. 

Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation. 

The pay scale for this position:

Per year is: $275,000 - $325,000 and will vary dependent on geographic location.

Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary bonus, and benefits.

This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate’s education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers). The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any other protected classes.