Northwoods · 4 hours ago
Vice President of Engineering
Dublin, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$225K/yr - $250K/yr
10+ years expNorthwoods Consulting Partners, a stable software provider serving Health and Human Services agencies, is seeking a VP of Engineering to join its executive team. This role involves driving business growth through technology innovation, overseeing engineering architecture, and ensuring operational excellence across the organization.
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Responsibilities
Define a unifying engineering strategy and roadmap for managing the success of customers, leveraging Compass and Traverse while designing our next-generation offerings with an AI first mindset
Establish clear architectural governance and set consistent technical direction across the entire product portfolio
Drive the evaluation and standardization of CI/CD practices and modern DevOps pipelines to enable scalable, efficient SaaS delivery
Lead the adoption and institutionalization of a GenAI-assisted approach to increase engineering throughput
Advance the use of GenAI and emerging technologies within the product to benefit customers and the next generation of innovation
Evaluate and refine the engineering organization to ensure an effective structure, strong leadership, and a culture that fosters innovation, continuous skill development, and scalable growth
Implement continuous improvement in AWS operations, monitoring, services, cost profiles and core engineering processes
Set measurable engineering goals that track output, identify improvement opportunities, and drive accountability
Implement continuous improvement in the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC) while supporting compliance and industry standard practices
Oversee incident response, vulnerability management, and security posture
Lead Business Continuity (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DRP) readiness efforts
Align Northwoods products with state HHS regulations and case management needs
Lead interoperability efforts with systems like SACWIS, CCWIS, Medicaid, and SNAP/TANF
Maintain awareness of federal and state technology frameworks (ACF, CMS, NIEM, NC Child Welfare Data Framework)
Qualification
Required
Extensive experience (10+ years) in senior engineering leadership roles, such as VP of Engineering, Director of Engineering, or similar
Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, particularly the AWS ecosystem: EKS, EC2, Lambda, PostgreSQL, S3, and so on
Proven technical depth in the current modern stack: Ruby on Rails, React/TypeScript, and modern CI/CD
Experience in managing, maintaining, and modernizing C# / .NET Framework applications and complex installer/deployment tooling (MSI, WiX)
Prior experience with security compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA) and implementing preventative security controls (SAST, SCA)
Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change, adopt new technologies, such as Generative AI
3-5 years of experience managing offshore teams
2-3 years of experience leveraging AI to support the SDLC process to improve team efficiency with working examples
Working experience using Cursor, Microsoft Co-Pilot, GitHub or similar AI tools in coding practice with measurable results
Benefits
Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
Opportunity to work with a passionate and talented team on cutting-edge technologies.
Continuous learning and career development opportunities.
Company
Northwoods
Northwoods helps human services agencies solve their biggest challenges—burnout, high turnover, inefficiency, and compliance risk—by making day-to-day work simpler and smarter.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Brian LaMee
Chief Marketing Officer
Rich Diers
Chief Innovation Officer
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