Vice President of Information Technology

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.
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* Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

*** 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:
* Integrating real-time data pipelines for decision-making
* 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:
* Providing developer self-service platforms (Internal Developer Portals, Backstage.io)
* 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.
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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…