Vice President of Information Technology

Overview

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.

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.

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 automated security testing & AI-driven threat modeling

Talent Development & Team Building

• Ability to attract, retain, and upskill top engineering talent
• Ability to design and implement sub-function strategies
• Work with a global team mindset
• Excellent communication skills and ability to convey complex issues in a concise and clear manner.
• Displayed business acumen and enterprise awareness.
• Understanding of the core levers that drive organization success.

Work Experience

• 15+ years in software engineering, with at least 5 years leading large teams

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field required; advanced degree preferred

Other

• Must be able to travel occasionally should a business need arise. Travel may involve plane, car or metro. In accordance with ADA policies, reasonable…