Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Define and lead the enterprise development strategy across software engineering, digital platforms, cloud technologies, and AI-enabled solutions.
- Translate business priorities into scalable technology and product-development roadmaps.
- Lead large, distributed engineering and development organizations across the United States.
- Establish engineering standards for architecture, software quality, security, reliability, scalability, and technical performance.
- Partner with Product, Technology, Data, AI, Cybersecurity, Operations, and executive leadership to deliver major enterprise initiatives.
- Oversee cloud modernization, platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, APIs, distributed systems, and legacy transformation.
- Guide responsible adoption of generative AI, intelligent automation, AI-assisted development, and emerging technologies.
- Improve engineering productivity, development velocity, release quality, and developer experience.
- Establish strategies for technical debt, platform lifecycle management, system resilience, and operational reliability.
- Manage significant engineering investments, technology vendors, capacity planning, and development budgets.
- Recruit, develop, and retain senior engineering leaders and highly skilled technical talent.
- Provide executive leadership with clear visibility into delivery performance, technology risks, investment priorities, and engineering strategy.
Job Qualifications and Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive software development, engineering, or technology leadership experience.
- Significant experience leading large-scale engineering or product-development organizations.
- Previous experience as a Chief Development Officer, CTO, SVP Engineering, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, or comparable senior technology leader preferred.
- Deep understanding of modern software architecture, cloud computing, distributed systems, APIs, DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering.
- Strong knowledge of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and emerging development technologies.
- Demonstrated success delivering complex enterprise technology platforms and digital products.
- Experience managing geographically distributed engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity and secure software-development practices.
- Experience managing substantial technology budgets and strategic vendor relationships.
- Exceptional executive communication, organizational leadership, and decision-making capabilities.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred; advanced degree or MBA is advantageous.
Personal Capabilities and Qualifications
- Enterprise-level strategic and systems thinking.
- Strong technical and commercial judgment.
- Ability to translate business strategy into technology execution.
- Executive presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Strong organizational and engineering leadership capabilities.
- Product-oriented approach to technology development.
- Ability to make high-impact decisions in complex environments.
- Strong commitment to engineering excellence, security, and reliability.
- Ability to develop senior leaders and build high-performance technical organizations.
- Intellectual curiosity around AI, cloud, software architecture, and emerging technology.
Strategic Support
- Advise executive leadership on technology, engineering, AI, and development strategy.
- Support enterprise growth, digital transformation, and new product initiatives.
- Partner with Product leadership on platform and product-development priorities.
- Support M&A technology assessment and integration where applicable.
- Partner with Cybersecurity leadership to strengthen secure development practices.
- Support financial planning and long-term technology investment decisions.
- Establish engineering capabilities required for future business expansion.
- Provide strategic direction for AI adoption and engineering automation.
Working Conditions
- Remote position within the United States.
- Full-time executive leadership role within a large enterprise environment.
- Regular collaboration with executive and technical teams across multiple U.S. time zones.
- Periodic domestic or international travel may be required for leadership meetings, strategic planning, customer engagements, and engineering initiatives.
- Additional availability may occasionally be required during major product launches or critical technology events.
- Requires appropriate handling of confidential technology, product, financial, and corporate strategy information.
Job Function
Primary Function: Technology & Product Development
Leadership Level: C-Suite / Executive Leadership
Industry: Global Technology, AI, Cloud & Enterprise Digital Platforms
Employment Type: Full-Time | Remote USA
Core areas include software development, engineering leadership, enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, artificial intelligence, DevOps, platform engineering, digital transformation, product engineering, and technical organizational leadership.
Compensation & Benefits
Annual Compensation Package: $395,000 – $476,000
The total rewards package may include:
- Executive performance incentives
- Equity or long-term incentives where applicable
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement savings programs
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Paid parental and family leave
- Executive development and professional learning resources
- Remote-work support
- Life and disability coverage
- Additional executive benefits according to company policy
Why Join Us
This is an opportunity to influence the technology and development strategy of a large-scale organization while leading sophisticated engineering initiatives in a rapidly changing technology environment.
The Chief Development Officer will have meaningful influence over software development, enterprise architecture, AI adoption, cloud modernization, engineering productivity, technical talent, and future product capabilities.
The role offers the scale and executive visibility to build modern engineering systems, develop high-performing technical organizations, and help translate ambitious business priorities into secure, reliable, and scalable technology.
For an executive who wants to shape both what an enterprise builds and how it builds it, this position offers significant strategic impact and long-term organizational influence.
