[Remote] AVP, Software Engineering & DevOps
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wealthspire is a wealth management, retirement advisory, and business management firm serving individuals, families, endowments, and institutions. The AVP, Software Engineering & DevOps owns software development, DevOps, and code delivery across the firm, leading engineering execution and ensuring reliable, secure, and repeatable production delivery. The role also develops engineering standards, mentors developers, and partners with infrastructure, security, data, architecture, and program teams.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery across internally developed applications, integrations, automation, and supporting services
- Convert approved priorities into actionable technical plans with defined scope, order, ownership, and delivery commitments
- Lead solution build, code development, testing, release, and production stabilization
- Review and contribute code, troubleshoot critical issues, and make pragmatic technical decisions when required
- Own CI/CD, build and release automation, environment management, deployment controls, and production-readiness standards
- Implement repeatable provisioning, configuration, artifact management, and secret-management practices
- Reduce manual releases, environment drift, deployment failures, and reliance on individual employees or contractors
- Continuously improving delivery speed, quality, control, and recoverability
- Set realistic guidelines for architecture, coding, source control, code review, automated testing, documentation, and technical debt
- Guide and mentor developers with different experiences into a cohesive engineering team that follows consistent practices and maintains clear accountability
- Define ownership for applications, repositories, environments, releases, and production support
- Assess capability gaps and build the appropriate staffing model across employees, contractors, and strategic partners
- Act as the operational link between development and Infrastructure, Security, Data, Enterprise Applications, Architecture, and Program Management
- Ensure availability, performance, security, recoverability, supportability, and cost are addressed throughout the development lifecycle
- Establish application observability through actionable logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and support procedures
- Lead application incident response, root-cause analysis, and completion of corrective actions
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Information Systems, or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience
- 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, application development, or DevOps, including hands-on responsibility for production systems
- 3+ years of experience leading developers, engineering teams, or technical delivery functions
- Proven capability to analyze, debug, and contribute production code using contemporary development frameworks and languages
- Strong experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD, release automation, observability, and cloud-based application environments
- Experience building or supporting AI-enabled applications and using AI-assisted software development tools
- Solid knowledge of APIs, integrations, databases, application architecture, security, and production-support needs
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or comparable cloud and development platforms
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across development, infrastructure, security, data, business, and executive partners
- Experience delivering technology in financial services or another regulated environment preferred
Benefits
- PTO and paid holidays
- 401(k) with match
- Exclusive discount programs
- Health and wellness programs
- This position may be eligible for performance-based incentives
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