Senior Engineering Leader: Strategy, Delivery & Talent

Vizient, Inc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive technical strategy across a domain cluster, strengthen delivery capability, and raise engineering excellence.

You will coach teams, manage performance, and translate enterprise strategy into actionable roadmaps while partnering with product, architecture, and business clients to deliver secure, scalable solutions. The role requires strong Agile leadership, talent development, and experience across infrastructure or platform teams in

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering leadership experience.
• Proven success leading engineering teams and developing technical talent.
• Experience operating in a matrixed environment aligning tech decisions with business goals.
• Experience supporting or leading infrastructure, platform engineering, or shared services teams.
• Experience designing and deploying large-scale data applications.
• Strong knowledge of Agile delivery practices and cross-functional engineering execution.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership, coaching, mentorship, and performance management for engineering teams.
• Recruit, develop, and retain engineering talent while assessing team health and organizational needs.
• Align quarterly and long-term technical roadmaps with enterprise and product strategies.
• Partner with Product Management and Architecture to balance product priorities, technical debt, reliability, innovation, design, and dependencies.
• Lead technical risk assessment, mitigation planning, and resolution of complex technical challenges across multiple teams.
• Establish and promote engineering standards and best practices that support quality, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Oversee Agile delivery, quarterly goals, cross-team coordination, resource allocation, and execution of complex initiatives.
• Serve as an escalation point for delivery risks, impediments, and product issues while communicating progress and outcomes to senior leadership.
• Champion cross-domain collaboration, knowledge sharing, process improvement, and alignment with enterprise priorities.
• Shape and execute engineering talent and organizational strategies that build long‑term capabilities and support business needs.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Agile delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Education

Relevant degree preferred

Job description

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive technical strategy across a domain cluster, strengthen delivery capability, and raise engineering excellence.

You will coach teams, manage performance, and translate enterprise strategy into actionable roadmaps while partnering with product, architecture, and business clients to deliver secure, scalable solutions. The role requires strong Agile leadership, talent development, and experience across infrastructure or platform teams in