Vice President of Information Technology

Vice President of Information Technology

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Lead IT functions that support platform/applications engineering and Enterprise capabilities across SEI Business Units by ensuring agility, scalability, and automation, ensuring that enterprise applications remain resilient, adaptable, and aligned with business strategy.

• Owns and establishes sub-function strategy
• Decisions in scope of this role have a significant impact on business results and enterprise practices
• Aligning with company goals and OKRs
• Preparing and allocating budgets and ensuring tracking of the budgets per plan
• Set performance and financial goals and attain them through team direction and management
• Assess, evaluate, and report on overall team and individual team member performance through a scorecard review process
• Ensure compliance with company policies and local, regional and federal regulations
• Build and approve the department’s hiring plan
• Guide and support Directors and managers and develop team talent

Cloud-First, SaaS-Powered Architecture

• Prioritizing SaaS and cloud-native solutions over legacy systems

AI & Hyper‑Automation‑Enabled Development

• Implementing AI‑driven software engineering (Copilot, AI‑assisted coding, test automation)
• Automating Dev Sec Ops  to ensure continuous security and compliance

Event‑Driven & Composable Enterprise

• Designing applications with event‑driven and composable architecture (Kafka, Pub/Sub)

Data‑Driven Engineering & Observability

• Leveraging AI‑powered insights for proactive issue resolution

Cybersecurity & Compliance By Design

• Embedding Zero Trust principles into application security
• Ensuring compliance automation with regulatory standards

Developer Experience & Platform Engineering

• Automating onboarding, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code
• Investing in developer productivity and upskilling in AI, cloud, and security
• Oversee core enterprise infrastructure operations across SEI globally, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Lead platform engineering efforts to enable reusable, secure, and standardized platform capabilities across business units.
• Own and drive the enterprise data infrastructure strategy, including data platforms, pipelines, and governance frameworks.
• Manage identity and access management (IAM) capabilities, ensuring secure and compliant user access across systems.
• Lead the cloud infrastructure strategy across SEI, including public cloud adoption, hybrid cloud models, and cost optimization.
• Establish and scale Dev Sec Ops  practices, embedding security throughout the development and deployment lifecycle.
• Define and enforce enterprise‑wide technology standards for platforms, infrastructure, and operations to ensure global consistency.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally to drive platform modernization initiatives that align with SEI’s digital transformation goals.

Job Skills

Strategic & Leadership Capabilities

• Vision for enterprise technology modernization
• Ability to align IT applications with business growth
• Experience leading large, distributed, and AI‑enabled engineering teams
• Strong stakeholder management and communications capability with C‑suite and business leaders

Technical Expertise

• Cloud‑native architectures preferably Google Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS ecosystems
• Experience with microservices, API‑led development, and event‑driven architecture
• Deep understanding of AI/ML in software development & automation
• Proficiency in Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, and platform engineering best practices
• Expertise in enterprise integration, middleware, and data pipelines

AI, Automation & Observability

• Experience leveraging AI‑powered development tools
• Strong knowledge of AI‑driven observability, self‑healing applications
• Hands‑on experience with hyper‑automation (RPA, AI‑Ops, Chat Ops)

Agile & Change Management

• Proven experience in agile transformation at scale
• Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Spotify model, or similar
• Ability to drive cultural change towards an experimentation mindset

Cybersecurity & Risk Management

• Deep understanding of Zero Trust, application security, and compliance frameworks
• Experience with…