AVP, Software Engineering & DevOps — Cloud Delivery Leader

AON PLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO & paid holidays

401(k) with match

Health & wellness programs

Exclusive discount programs

Job summary

Wealthspire Advisors LLC seeks an AVP of Software Engineering & DevOps to own software development, DevOps, and code delivery across the firm. Build a structured, scalable engineering and DevOps function that connects development and infrastructure to improve delivery speed and reliability.

The role partners with engineering and security teams to ensure production-ready, secure solutions, mentoring developers, and guiding architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, application development, or DevOps, including hands-on responsibility for production systems.
• 3+ years of experience leading developers, engineering teams, or technical delivery functions.
• Strong experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD, release automation, observability, and cloud-based application environments.
• Experience delivering technology in financial services or another regulated environment preferred.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across development, infrastructure, security, data, business, and executive partners.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery across internally developed applications, integrations, automation, and supporting services.
• Convert approved priorities into actionable technical plans with defined scope, order, ownership, and delivery commitments.
• Lead solution build, code development, testing, release, and production stabilization.
• Review and contribute code, troubleshoot critical issues, and make pragmatic technical decisions when required.
• Own CI/CD, build and release automation, environment management, deployment controls, and production-readiness standards.
• Implement repeatable provisioning, configuration, artifact management, and secret-management practices.
• Reduce manual releases, environment drift, deployment failures, and reliance on individual employees or contractors.
• Continuously improving delivery speed, quality, control, and recoverability.
• Set realistic guidelines for architecture, coding, source control, code review, automated testing, documentation, and technical debt.
• Guide and mentor developers with different experiences into a cohesive engineering team that follows consistent practices and maintains clear accountability.
• Define ownership for applications, repositories, environments, releases, and production support.
• Assess capability gaps and build the appropriate staffing model across employees, contractors, and strategic partners.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud

CI/CD

Observability

Production systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Azure

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Wealthspire Advisors LLC seeks an AVP of Software Engineering & DevOps to own software development, DevOps, and code delivery across the firm. Build a structured, scalable engineering and DevOps function that connects development and infrastructure to improve delivery speed and reliability.

The role partners with engineering and security teams to ensure production-ready, secure solutions, mentoring developers, and guiding architectural decisions.