Job Description

The Senior Vice President, Engineering provides engineering-oriented strategic, operational, architectural, and product development support for Epsilon Data Practice. The SVP of Engineering is the custodian of the engineering culture and must be a respected technology leader with a track record of inspiring, building, and leading a world class engineering team in a fast paced, scaled environment. The SVP supervises the distributed team of leaders, software engineers, quality assurance engineers, engineering operations and associated technical resources and is accountable for all projects. The role includes developing technology strategy and key performance measures, establishing objectives for the development and technology operations functions and delivering results across objectives, initiatives, and development projects across Data Practice portfolio and the greater organization. The SVP should have deep experience in big data, privacy, and security.

The SVP reports to the SVP of Data Platforms and directly assists on all strategic, policy and tactical matters as they relate to company performance, department supervision, budgeting and control, and financial performance.

Essential Responsibilities:

Building application and engineering roadmaps while closely partnering with client services, sales, and product management organizations.

Active participant of executive leadership team in Data Practice and in Epsilon.

Ensure Epsilon and Epsilon Data Practice goals and objectives reflect priorities of Data Practice engineering and business.

Work closely and daily with Data Practice leadership and be the voice and ears of the engineering organization.

Understand business initiatives and their impact on Data Practice engineering.

Ensure Data Practice engineering priorities of custom development for clients, platform improvement projects and new product innovation are balanced in goals, budgets, and engineering resource allocation.

Customer first thinking and successful execution of software and data as a service solution.

Execution of roadmaps, fast delivery of solutions and a phased agile approach to solution deployment.

Build strong partnerships with platform, security, infrastructure, and privacy teams.

Work with legal, privacy and compliance teams to ensure SOC2, ISO, and other certifications required by the business.

Escalation management of customer and system issues. Timely communication of issues with appropriate parties and timely resolution of issues.

Contribute innovative ideas to long term business and engineering strategy forums.

Create technology forums that ensure consistent architectural and technology stacks implementations across the solution space.

Lead global engineering organization of 150+ associates

Protect productions systems from fast fix deployments, security gaps and semi-orchestrated deployments. Ensure strong controls are in place for changes to production environments.

Build credibility and earn the respect of partners, peers, engineers, sales, and customers.

Review architectures and designs for complex solution spaces and provide guidance to teams on design direction. Ensure designs are viable and practical.

Measure and improve quality, productivity, reliability, predictability, and success of all aspects of the software development ecosystem.

Understand the impact of WFH on quality, productivity, and efficiency.

Manage the budget for labor, software, hardware, and services.

Skills:

Industry knowledge and ideally expertise in identity, data products, consumer databases, digital advertising, and customer analytics services.

Deep knowledge of software engineering practices. 15+ years of managing large application development teams.

Experience with modernizing applications while balancing current business deliverables.

Ability to manage across geographies and time zones.

Ability to build trust of teams via technical skills and authentic communication.

Expert level knowledge and experience in Agile software development methodology.

Leadership of 100+ engineering organization.

Ability to quickly build teams with internal and contract resources that can solve customer problems in a timely fashion.

Experience with large data repository solutions from Oracle, snowflake, Hadoop on cloud native and data center platforms.

Understanding of modeling, ML and AI and its applications to marketing audiences, offers and ability to predict and propose “next best action”.

Experience with SaaS, multi-tenant CRM or other multi-tenant software expertise.

Experience with hybrid environments – cloud and data center hosted solutions.

Expert in modern software development processes and tools – experience with CICD in mixed technology stacks.

Strong background in data architectures, data movement, data onboarding, PII protection, and performance management.

Ability to institute metrics for development, production, and quality. Constantly monitoring and adjustment of focus to ensure the best solutions are built with the least amount of “waste” in the system.

Management of $20+m of budgets for labor, software, hardware, and services.

Ability to travel once/month domestic and 2X/year international.

Salary Range: $235,000.00 - $260,000.00

Additional Information

When you're one of us, you get to run with the best. For decades, we've been helping marketers from the world's top brands personalize experiences for millions of people with our cutting-edge technology, solutions and services. Epsilon's best-in-class identity gives brands a clear, privacy-safe view of their customers, which they can use across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Positioned at the core of Publicis Groupe, Epsilon is a global company with more than 8,000 employees around the world. Check out a few of these resources to learn more about what makes Epsilon so EPIC:

Culture: https: // www. epsilon.com/us/about-us/our-culture-epsilon

DE&I: https: // www. epsilon.com/us/about-us/diversity-equity-inclusion

CSR: https: // www. epsilon.com/us/about-us/corporate-social-responsibility

Life at Epsilon: https: // www. epsilon.com/us/about-us/epic-blog

Great People Deserve Great Benefits

We know that we have some of the brightest and most talented associates in the world, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, expect competitive pay, comprehensive health coverage, and endless opportunities to advance your career.

Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Epsilon's policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Epsilon also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories.

Epsilon will provide accommodations to applicants needing accommodations to complete the application process.

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