VP, Engineering

Vizient; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient seeks a Vice President of Engineering to lead the enterprise engineering organization powering our next-generation healthcare technology products. This executive will shape strategy, drive platform investments, and deliver secure, scalable cloud-native platforms for product teams across the enterprise.

Responsibilities include building leadership, balancing full-time and contingent talent, and partnering across Architecture, Technology Delivery, Security, and Product groups to enable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in CS, Eng, IT; Master’s preferred.
• 15+ years in software engineering with executive leadership.
• Experience leading Directors/Managers and scaling enterprise platforms.
• Azure or cloud-native architectures experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering organization with accountability and innovation.
• Define and execute engineering strategy for enterprise platform capabilities (data, AI, security, identity).
• Partner with Platform Product Management to align roadmaps and investments.
• Establish DevSecOps, quality engineering, automation, observability, and SRE practices.

Skills

Executive leadership

Cloud-native

Azure

DevSecOps

Architectural leadership

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Master's preferred

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Job description

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented employees and instill an environment where you feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute your unique skills and talents while living and working as your authentic self. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Our people make all the difference in our success.

We are seeking a Vice President, Engineering to lead the engineering organization responsible for the enterprise platforms that power our next-generation healthcare technology products. This leader will oversee a large engineering organization, drive engineering excellence and delivering secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms that enable product teams across the enterprise.

Working in close partnership with internal stakeholders, this executive will define engineering strategy, shape platform investments, and foster a culture of technical excellence while collaborating across Architecture, Technology Delivery, Security, and Product organizations

Key Responsibilities:

Organizational Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering organization, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Recruit, retain, and develop exceptional engineering talent while building leadership capability through coaching, succession planning, and performance management.
• Build organizational capacity by balancing full-time and contingent talent to meet evolving business priorities.

Platform Engineering

• Define and execute the engineering strategy for enterprise platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions supporting data, AI, security, identity, and shared services.
• Deliver reusable platform capabilities that accelerate product delivery, improve developer productivity, and enable enterprise-wide adoption.
• Ensure engineering teams deliver reliable, high-quality software with operational excellence and measurable business outcomes.

Engineering Excellence & Enterprise Collaboration

• Partner with Platform Product Management in an engineering/product leadership dyad to define platform strategy, investment priorities, and roadmaps.
• Establish modern engineering practices—including DevSecOps, quality engineering, automation, observability, and AI-enabled software engineering—and measure their adoption and effectiveness across teams.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and innovation while evaluating emerging technologies that create business value.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline; Master’s degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including executive leadership of large, multi-level engineering organizations.
• Proven experience leading engineering leaders, including Directors of Engineering, Engineering Managers, and senior technical leaders.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling enterprise platform engineering organizations supporting multiple product teams.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and modern software engineering practices, with experience delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms and technologies such as Azure, Databricks, data integration, and modern data engineering frameworks.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering, APIs, data management, AI-enabled platforms, identity, security, and enterprise architecture principles.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps, CI/CD, quality engineering, observability, automation, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
• Hands‑on leader able to build POCs and actively contribute to design, architecture, and whiteboarding sessions.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, healthcare technology, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience building enterprise platforms for Data, AI, Identity, and shared developer capabilities
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards such as FHIR or HL7.
• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering organizations.

Individual

• Talent Management
  • Recruit, hire, and onboard top engineering talent.
  • Develop and implement training and development programs to enhance the skills and capabilities of the engineering team.
  • Foster a positive and inclusive work environment that promotes delivery, solid engineering practices and champions the Vizient value.
  • Supplement FTE engineers with effective contingent staffing partnerships balancing cost and performance.
• Engineering Practices
  • Establish proper engineering practice.
  • Measure adoption and effectiveness of engineer practices across teams standardizing where appropriate.
• Technical Expertise
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team.
  • Stay up‑to‑date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies.
  • Ensure that the engineering team is using the most effective and efficient tools, technologies, and processes.
  • Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the engineering department.

Shared

• Coordinate with Technology Delivery, Technology Practices, Enterprise Architecture, Solutions
  • Partner with Technology Delivery and other Technology Practices to staff and manage high performing delivery teams while balancing cost and demand.
  • Partner with EA and Solutions to determine the right solution design for our products, applications and services.
  • Partner with Technology team to develop and operate a thorough 360 feedback program that ensures each employee is measured equally on delivery, practices and values.

Career Framework

Executive - VP (E2)

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here: http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers