Vice President of Development

Akkodis; Kentucky; On-site; USD 175,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with match

Medical insurance

Job summary

Akkodis is seeking a VP of Development Effectiveness in Westlake, OH for onsite leadership of enterprise software delivery. You will drive strategic technology initiatives, align priorities with the business, and elevate delivery outcomes across multiple teams.

The role requires a track record of engineering leadership, Agile transformation, and strong executive communication. You will oversee governance, SDLC improvements, and offshore partnerships to accelerate value delivery.

Qualifications

• Lead strategic technology initiatives with measurable delivery outcomes.
• Partner with executives to align delivery with business objectives.
• Champion Agile, DevOps, and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive timely, in-scope project delivery while ensuring quality.
• Standardize development practices for repeatable delivery.
• Establish governance and measurement across programs.
• Lead offshore relationships and monitoring programs.
• Mentor managers and engineering leaders to raise execution capability.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Executive communication

Agile transformation

DevOps

Cloud platforms

Metrics & analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

Source control

Job description

Job Title: VP of Development Effectiveness

Location: Westlake, OH / Onsite

Salary: $175k - $220k annually (The pay range may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors)

Duration: Direct Hire

Job Description:

Duties and responsibilities

• Delivery Leadership: Lead the execution of strategic technology initiatives and development projects by aligning priorities, coordinating teams, and maintaining focus on measurable delivery outcomes.
• Drive timely, in-scope project delivery while ensuring outcomes meet established quality standards and business expectations.
• Maintain executive visibility into team commitments, delivery milestones, risks, dependencies, and decision points.
• Proactively remove delivery roadblocks and elevate critical issues that could affect timelines, scope, or quality.
• Establish clear ownership and accountability for project outcomes across development teams and supporting stakeholders.
• Align software development priorities with enterprise strategy to ensure technology investments support business objectives and deliver measurable return on investment.
• Development Process Improvement: Define and continuously refine software development methodologies that improve execution consistency, delivery quality, and team effectiveness.
• Standardize development practices across teams to promote repeatable execution, shared expectations, and scalable delivery discipline.
• Strengthen planning, estimation, sprint execution, and release management processes to improve predictability and reduce delivery variability.
• Accelerate adoption of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and modern engineering practices to reduce bottlenecks, improve release speed, and strengthen delivery scalability.
• Use data-driven metrics to evaluate development efficiency, identify improvement opportunities, and guide continuous process optimization.
• Establish AI-enabled development practices with appropriate governance, controls, and measurement frameworks to assess cost, effectiveness, and business value.
• Engineering Quality: Establish and enforce engineering standards for coding practices, peer reviews, automated testing, and release readiness.
• Improve software quality, reliability, scalability, and maintainability through disciplined engineering practices and continuous feedback loops.
• Reduce technical debt through structured assessment, prioritization, remediation planning, and sustained execution discipline.
• Promote secure development practices and compliance alignment by embedding security, privacy, and regulatory requirements into the development lifecycle.
• Serve as the relationship owner for offshore development partners including the build out of the appropriate monitoring and improvement programs to improve our leveraging of these relationships.
• Team Leadership: Develop and mentor development managers, technical leads, and engineering teams to strengthen leadership capability and execution effectiveness.
• Foster a high-accountability culture grounded in ownership, continuous learning, collaboration, and measurable improvement.
• Align team priorities, goals, and capacity with organizational objectives to ensure development resources are focused on the highest-value outcomes.
• Support staffing strategy, performance management, talent development, and succession planning to build resilient and scalable engineering teams.
• Strengthen collaboration across development, infrastructure, security, product, and business stakeholders to improve alignment, execution speed, and shared accountability.
• Advance talent development and engineering culture by strengthening technical upskilling, team management practices, collaboration, and sustained high-performance expectations.
• Performance Measurement: Define, monitor, and communicate key engineering performance indicators that provide visibility into execution health, delivery effectiveness, and continuous improvement progress.
• Delivery predictability and commitment reliability
• Sprint velocity, throughput, and capacity utilization
• Defect trends, escape rates, and quality performance
• Production stability, incident frequency, and recovery performance
• Deployment frequency, release cadence, and automation maturity
• Lead time for changes and end-to-end delivery cycle time
• Technical debt reduction and modernization progress
• Tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as cycle time, deployment frequency, mean time to recovery (MTTR), and defect rates to measure and improve team output.
• Provide regular executive reporting on delivery progress, engineering performance, risk trends, and measurable improvement outcomes.
• Success Measures: Higher project delivery success rates with improved predictability, scope control, and stakeholder confidence.
• Improved software quality with fewer production incidents, reduced defect escape rates, and stronger release readiness.
• Faster, more predictable development cycles supported by disciplined planning, execution, and release management practices.
• Greater team productivity, engagement, and accountability through clearer priorities, stronger leadership, and measurable execution discipline.
• Consistent adoption of modern engineering practices, development standards, and process improvements across teams.
• Reduced technical debt, operational inefficiencies, and delivery friction through structured modernization and continuous improvement efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive IT leadership experience in software development, engineering, or technology operations.
• 5+ years leading engineering organizations or software delivery teams.
• Demonstrated success improving software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes across multiple teams.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale Agile transformation initiatives.
• Experience working with executive leadership to align technology delivery with business objectives.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams without necessarily having direct authority over all participants.

Technical Knowledge

• Deep understanding of modern software engineering practices, including:
• Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean principles
• DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Software architecture and design principles
• Test automation and quality engineering
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Source control and branching strategies
• Release management
• Familiarity with engineering metrics and dashboards.
• Experience applying to AI tools to SDLC or functional business areas.
• Proven ability to influence organizational change.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to build consensus across development, QA, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders.
• Strong conflict resolution and facilitation skills.
• Process Improvement Expertise
• Metrics and Analytics Expertise

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefits offerings include but are not limited to:

• 401(k) with match
• Medical insurance