Role & responsibilities:

- Define and execute the company's engineering strategy and technology roadmap in alignment with overall business and product goals.

- Lead, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering teams across multiple functions, products, and geographies.

- Build and manage a strong leadership layer, including Engineering Managers, Directors, and Senior Technical Leaders.

- Own engineering execution, ensuring predictable delivery of high-quality, scalable, secure, and reliable products.

- Partner closely with CEO, CTO, Product, Design, Sales, and other executive stakeholders to translate business priorities into engineering initiatives.

- Drive architecture and technology decisions for highly scalable and maintainable systems.

- Establish engineering standards covering software development, architecture, testing, DevOps, security, observability, and reliability.

- Improve engineering productivity, development velocity, release processes, and operational excellence.

- Own engineering headcount planning, hiring strategy, organizational design, and budget management.

- Develop and retain engineering talent through coaching, career development, performance management, and succession planning.

- Establish and monitor engineering KPIs, including delivery predictability, system reliability, quality, productivity, and team health.

- Lead major technology transformations, modernization initiatives,



and migration to cloud or distributed architectures where appropriate.

Preferred candidate profile:

- 7 to 12 years of experience in software engineering, technology, or related technical leadership roles.

- Demonstrated experience leading large, high-performing engineering organizations and preferably managing Engineering Managers or senior technical leaders.

- Proven track record of progressing from Senior Engineer/Tech Lead Engineering Manager/Director VP-level leadership, or equivalent scope of responsibility.

- Strong background in software architecture, distributed systems, cloud platforms, APIs, databases, DevOps, and modern engineering practices.

- Experience building and scaling engineering teams across multiple products, functions, or geographies.

- Solid understanding of product development, Agile methodologies, engineering operations, and technology strategy.

- Demonstrated ability to connect engineering decisions with revenue, customer experience, operational efficiency, and business growth.

- Experience working in high-growth startups, SaaS, fintech, enterprise technology, or other technology-driven organizations is highly desirable.

- Exposure to AI/ML, generative AI, and AI-powered engineering/product development is an advantage.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline; Master's degree or MBA is a plus.

📌 Vice President Engineering (Canada)
🏢 IPI Technolab
📍 Canada