VP, Software Development

Fusion92 is an innovation-forward digital marketing agency. We deliver innovative digital experiences, and the infrastructure to support them. We work with a variety of clients across many industries who require our technological expertise. We strive to be experts in our field and never stop learning and growing. 

For those obsessed with curiosity, to innovate amazing things together. We bring together thinkers, tinkerers, designers, writers, planners, poets, inventors, innovators, and robot makers to deliver real results, to give answers to the unanswerable. We’ve transformed businesses. We’ve launched products. We’ve patented innovations. We’ve created results-winning ideas. And we have one strong, hungry team ready to work collaboratively with you. We’re both dreamers and doers. Fully integrated. And we’re crazy about finding what matters to open the amazing.  

Our difference is our people. That's where you come in.

Job Summary:

The VP Software Development is responsible for software development, quality assurance, and client facing technologies. The candidate must lead a team of full-stack developers and quality assurance analysts.

The VP Software Development works in partnership with new business, account, and project team members across all capabilities and is responsible for effective communication, documentation, mentorship, estimation, scope, and system administration.

This role reports to the SVP, Product and can be remote or a part of our Chicago or Detroit office. 

*While our offices are currently open, daily in-office attendance is not required. 

Accountabilities:

• Lead and grow multiple teams of product-focused Software engineers and Solutions Architects, deepening their experience in designing cloud native solutions, distributed microservices, and full stack.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on team.
• Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community.
• Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios - Continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies.
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity

Recommended Qualifications, Skills, And Experience

• Demonstrated conceptual thinking skills, complemented by a strong quantitative orientation.
• Natural networker across teams and with external partners.
• A tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to solving business and technology problems.
• Solid people leadership experience: ability to build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team, as well as business partners across the enterprise.
• Demonstrated experience fostering innovation, driving critical decisions, holding internal resources accountable, and being able to consistently deliver results.
• Knowledge in advertising technologies, SEO, Social and SEM.
• Extra bonus points for previous development and leadership experience in the NFT and DAM spaces.
• Strong communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Influence, drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid technical environment.
• Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial, and dynamic environment.

Required Qualifications, Skills, And Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree and relevant certifications in technology and/or project management.
• 12 years’ experience with Technology solutions in the following areas: Cloud Infrastructure, Container Platforms & Serverless, high-availability deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, etc.), real-time monitoring and logging in cloud environments
• 10 years’ experience in Software Engineering, Application Architecture or Infrastructure Solution design
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in application design, CI/CD, system administration / DevOps (DNS, LAMP, IIS, AWS, Azure, GCloud)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Agile Delivery practices

Previous Job Experience

• Previous experience being part of a Technology Leadership team and reporting into SVP/EVP/CIO/CTO.
• Previous experience managing large technology budgets ($5M )
• Demonstrated experience leading medium to large (20 FTEs) technology teams that included Cloud & DevOps Engineers.

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