SVP, Technology Strategy & Operations

axos; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Axos Bank in San Diego, CA seeks an SVP of Technology Strategy & Operations to align seven verticals across Consumer Bank, Securities, and Enterprise Technology. This hands-on role drives AI-enabled transformation, delivery standards, and cross‑vertical coordination to ensure programs meet objectives.

The ideal leader will own organizational change, release management, and high‑impact cross‑vertical initiatives, embedding modern practices and driving adoption until results are achieved.

Responsibilities

• Own ongoing, continuous transformation of how technology is delivered across seven verticals, with planning discipline and delivery gates.
• Define horizontal delivery standards and ensure they are operationalized and reinforced over time.
• Implement an AI-driven development lifecycle (AIDLC) across all seven verticals.
• Oversee AI adoption, measure impact, and intervene where adoption or impact is lacking.
• Maintain a working view of execution health across verticals to close capability gaps directly.
• Lead organizational change management across three lines of business: Consumer Bank, Securities, and Enterprise Technology.
• Directly manage cross-vertical release management and cross-vertical risk sign-off.

Job description

Axos Bank

Target Range: $185,000.00 /Yr. - $225,000.00 /Yr. Actual starting pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, and education.

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Cash Bonus Target: 15%

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Restricted Stock Units Bonus Target: 15%

These discretionary target bonuses may be awarded semi‑annually based upon your achievement of performance goals and targets.

About This Job

This role will report onsite to our HQ in San Diego, CA. Remote is not available.

Axos Bank is seeking an SVP of Technology Strategy & Operations. This role is the horizontal owner for how technology is delivered across the seven verticals within Consumer Bank, Securities, and Enterprise Technology: Consumer Dev, Securities Dev, COE, Data, ABC Tech, Ops/Delivery, and Axos Universal Core. Each vertical is accountable for its own execution; this role is accountable for connecting them, ensuring every vertical not only reaches its own objectives, but does so aligned with the others from a solution and capability perspective, rather than each building in isolation. It drives that alignment through delivery standards, continuous improvement and transformation, including AI‑enabled transformation such as implementing an AI‑driven development lifecycle (AIDLC) across all seven verticals, and organizational change management, and by stepping in directly and taking operational ownership when a program anywhere in that portfolio goes off track.

This role also oversees execution of strategic initiatives and OKR's across the seven‑vertical portfolio, along with budget and resource allocation trade‑offs across all seven verticals. It carries a coordination dimension, aligning execution across seven verticals that each operate with their own priorities and cadences, but the primary mode of the role is hands‑on: personally leading major cross‑vertical initiatives end‑to‑end, diagnosing problems, making the call, and staying embedded until issues are actually resolved, not just coordinating other people's work.

This is a hands‑on execution role, not a coordination‑only one. Success is measured in programs turned around, standards actually adopted, and decisions made with full cross‑vertical visibility, not in how well‑run the meeting calendar is.

Responsibilities

Continuous Improvement & Transformation

• Own an ongoing, continuous transformation of how technology is delivered across all seven verticals: planning discipline, quality gates, architecture review, delivery reporting, continuously raising the baseline rather than treating transformation as a single, one‑time initiative.
• Define delivery standards that apply horizontally across verticals, and drive the transformation of how those standards are operationalized, measured, and reinforced over time.
• Implement an AI‑driven development lifecycle (AIDLC) across all seven verticals: embedding AI into planning, coding, testing, and delivery workflows as the standard way of working, transforming how software gets built across the portfolio rather than piloting it in one team.
• Oversee AI adoption and impact as a tracked outcome, not just a rollout, maximizing usage across the seven verticals, measuring the productivity and quality gains it actually produces, and directly intervening wherever adoption lags or impact isn't materializing.
• Maintain a working view of execution health across all seven verticals, not as a status report, but to identify where practices are diverging or capability gaps are widening, and drive the transformation needed to close them directly.

Organizational Change & Release Management

• Own the organizational change management function across Consumer Bank, Securities, and Enterprise Technology: turning new standards, delivery practices, and operating changes into habits that actually stick, rather than one‑time announcements.
• Personally drive adoption of new standards and operating changes across seven verticals with different cultures and cadences, working directly with teams until change takes hold, not just communicating that it should.
• Own change readiness and adoption measurement for major cross‑vertical initiatives, and course‑correct where adoption is stalling.
• Lead the release management function for the enterprise, making the release sequencing and go/no‑go calls directly so dependencies across the organization don't collide in production.
• Partner with each vertical’s engineering leadership on release readiness and risk sign‑off, stepping in directly where cross‑vertical conflicts or platform‑wide risk require it.

Technical Delivery Management

• Directly manage a standing technical delivery/program management team deployed against cross‑vertical priorities, not just held in reserve for emergencies.
• Provide hands‑on delivery leadership on major cross‑vertical technical initiatives, working inside the program alongside the team, not overseeing it from a distance.