VP, Engineering & Operations

Brown & Brown is seeking a VP, Engineering & Operations to join our growing team in Plano, TX!  

The Vice President, Engineering & Operations is a transformative technology executive responsible for defining and delivering the next generation of enterprise engineering, operations, cloud, and infrastructure capabilities. Reporting directly to the CITO, this leader will set a bold vision for modern technology adoption, operational excellence, and organizational maturity. The ideal candidate is a visionary who embraces new technologies and approaches to accelerate technical capability, elevate skill sets, strengthen culture, and evolve operating models. This role requires a dynamic people leader who excels at building high‑performing teams and designing organizations that scale with the business. 

How You Will Contribute:  

• Develop and execute multi-year engineering, operations, teammate (employee) experience, and cloud strategy aligned with enterprise goals. 

• Shape and evolve the operating model to improve agility, scalability, and organizational maturity. 

• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CITO on technology trends, organizational design, and operational transformation. 

• Lead workforce transformation to uplift technical skills, leadership capabilities, and team effectiveness. 

• Build, inspire, and develop high performing teams across cloud engineering, infrastructure, teammate experience, operations, and command center functions. 

• Define and lead the enterprise cloud strategy, including architecture, workload placement, modernization, and migration roadmaps. 

• Build and mature a FinOps capability to optimize cloud spend, improve forecasting, and drive cost efficient engineering practices. 

• Drive cloud performance optimization, automation, and operational efficiency across all environments. 

• Oversee cloud engineering, platform engineering, and infrastructure modernization initiatives. 

• Implement modern DevOps, SRE, automation, and continuous delivery practices. 

• Establish engineering standards, governance, and reusable frameworks that improve quality, speed, and reliability. 

• Build out the Operations & Command Center, ensuring proactive monitoring, incident response, and operational resilience. 

• Drive operational excellence through automation, observability, and data driven decision making. 

• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability across all critical systems and services. 

• Build and scale AI infrastructure support for AI driven agent monitoring, automated inventory and asset intelligence, and AI enabled management and observability. 

• Partner with data, security, and engineering teams to ensure AI infrastructure is secure, scalable, and aligned with enterprise strategy. 

• Oversee enterprise infrastructure strategy across networks, compute, storage, and end user technologies. 

• Champion a modern, frictionless teammate (employee) experience through intuitive