IT VP

GEODIS Career; Brentwood (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rain financial wellness app

FirstStop Health telemedicine

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Maternity and paternity leave

Career development

Employee resource groups

Mentorship programs

Fitness class discounts

Relaxation and meditation app

Financial wellness programs

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

GEODIS is seeking a senior IT leader to own the Americas development roadmap and guide executive decisions on technology investments, balancing risk and business value.

You will oversee the full software lifecycle for core logistics systems, drive modernization to cloud-native architectures, manage cross-functional teams, and ensure security, governance, and 24/7 operational readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive software or IT experience, including leadership of large teams.
• Experience running hybrid legacy and modern workloads and phased modernization.
• Strong cloud, microservices, APIs, and DevOps background.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the Americas IT development roadmap aligned with GEODIS strategy.
• Advise executive leadership on technology investments, risks, and trade-offs.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery of WMS, TMS, order management, yard and dock, billing, and portals.
• Mature engineering practices: Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, testing, and observability.
• Lead migration to cloud-native architectures and API-first integration patterns.
• Mentor and develop directors, managers, and engineers across teams.

Skills

Leadership of large engineering teams

Strategic IT planning

Executive stakeholder management

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

APIs

CI/CD

DevOps

Job description

GEODIS specializes in unlocking business value in a complex world, ensuring seamless movement of goods worldwide. As a global third-party logistics provider (3PL), we power A Better Way to Deliver for the world's top brands and manufacturers. Fuel your career with GEODIS and discover endless growth opportunities.

Your role on the team:

Strategy and leadership

• Define and own the Americas IT development roadmap in alignment with business strategy and GEODIS global technology direction
• Advise executive leadership on technology investments, trade-offs, and risk
• Lead a pragmatic modernization strategy: decide what to retire, replatform, wrap with APIs, or rebuild, and sequence the work to avoid disrupting live operations

Delivery and execution

• Oversee the full software development lifecycle across WMS, TMS, order management, yard and dock systems, billing, and customer portals
• Drive delivery of customer onboarding and integrations, including EDI, API, and event-based connectivity with shippers, carriers, marketplaces, and ERPs
• Mature engineering practices: Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, observability, and release management suited to 24/7 operations
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with minimal operational impact

Legacy and modern platform management

• Maintain reliability and supportability of legacy and mainframe-era applications while reducing technical debt and key-person risk
• Lead migration to cloud-native, containerized, API-first architectures, including hybrid and phased coexistence models
• Establish integration patterns (APIs, messaging, EDI translation) that allow old and new systems to interoperate cleanly
• Guide adoption of data, analytics, and AI/ML capabilities such as visibility, forecasting, slotting, and automation

People and organization

• Lead, mentor, and develop directors, managers, and engineers across multiple teams, including onshore, offshore, and vendor partners
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning, and upskill teams with legacy expertise on modern tooling
• Own hiring, succession planning, performance management, and org design

Architecture, security, and governance

• Set architectural standards for scalability, resilience, and maintainability, aligned with global architecture governance
• Partner with Information Security to embed secure development and meet customer, regulatory, and compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, C-TPAT, customer-specific audits)
• Own platform reliability, disaster recovery, and business continuity for operations that cannot go down

Financial and vendor management

• Own the development budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation
• Manage software developers, vendors, system integrators, contractors and licensing
• Report on KPIs such as delivery velocity, quality, uptime, integration cycle time, and cost efficiency

What you need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 12+ years of progressive experience in software development or IT, including 5+ years leading large engineering organizations (multiple teams, 50+ people)
• Demonstrated experience running a hybrid estate of legacy and modern workloads and leading phased modernization
• Strong background with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), microservices, APIs, and DevOps practices
• Experience delivering enterprise systems in a 24/7, operations‑critical environment
• Track record managing budgets, vendors, offshore/onshore models, and cross-functional initiatives
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage executives, operations leaders, and customers

What you gain from joining our team:

• Access wages early with the Rain financial wellness app.
• Free telemedical access to doctors and therapists through FirstStop Health available first day of employment!
• Health, dental, and vision insurance after 30 days of employment
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Access to career development, employee resource groups, and mentorship programs
• Access to employee perks like fitness class discounts and free access to a relaxation and meditation app
• Free financial wellness programs
• Opportunities to volunteer and give back to your community.
• + more!

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