SVP, Engineering and Delivery

Overview

This position sits within our Product Development division, which develops, tests, and improves our software solutions in an innovative and collaborative environment.  

 

The OpportunityThe SVP, Engineering & Delivery is a strategic technology leader responsible for driving end-to-end engineering excellence, program delivery governance, and execution across ConstructConnect’s product and IT portfolio. This role unifies engineering delivery, PMO governance, quality automation, and operational reliability under one charter—ensuring predictable, high-velocity, high-quality outcomes that align to corporate OKRs and customer value.This leader will oversee the Engineering delivery, could and platform scalability, QA Automation, and Project Management Office (PMO) functions spanning software development, release management, agile execution, vendor delivery, and operational readiness in a product operating model. They will be accountable for capacity management, velocity, roadmap alignment, and incident response across a globally distributed engineering organization exceeding 200+ professionals.The ideal candidate brings a deep background in software engineering, large-scale SaaS delivery, and cross-functional leadership, with the ability to bridge business priorities and technology execution. This is a highly visible, delivery centric hands-on leadership role that partners closely with Product, Engineering, Security, IT Architecture, and DevOps to ensure reliable delivery of business outcomes.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Be DoingEngineering Leadership & Delivery Governance

• Provide executive oversight of all product and IT engineering initiatives, ensuring disciplined delivery across internal and offshore teams.
• Govern all release engineering and delivery pipelines, balancing speed, stability, and security.
• Drive engineering modernization and transformation initiatives (e.g., microservices, containerization, DevSecOps automation).
• Establish a consistent cadence for release planning, execution reviews, and delivery retrospectives to continuously improve throughput and predictability

PMO, Metrics, and OKR Management

• Drive deep collaboration with Product Leadership, ensuring tight alignment between engineering and product roadmaps, OKRs, and business priorities.
• Co-own strategic planning and roadmap execution to translate innovation into measurable customer and business impact.
• Lead the Project Management Office (PMO) to institutionalize consistent practices for planning, execution, and tracking.
• Define and publish key delivery KPIs: velocity, predictability, incident rate, throughput, and automation coverage.
• Govern OKR progress and lead quarterly business reviews (QBRs) to measure impact, delivery confidence, and capacity utilization.
• Build and operationalize an executive dashboard of delivery metrics for transparency and data-driven decisions.

Quality Engineering and Automation

• Oversee QA and test automation strategies to improve coverage, efficiency, and release confidence.
• Expand automated regression, performance, and security testing integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Champion a “Shift-Left” culture to embed quality early in the development lifecycle.
• Partner with product and engineering leads to define exit criteria for releases and ensure measurable quality gates are met.

Capacity, Velocity, and Incident Management

• Own capacity planning and resource forecasting across multiple agile teams & multiple product lines.
• Manage velocity trends and identify process bottlenecks to continuously improve throughput.
• Govern operational readiness, incident management, and service reliability metrics (MTTR, Sev-1/2 response, etc.).
• Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to ensure seamless release orchestration and cloud operations.
• Introduce delivery readiness reviews to ensure teams are scoped, staffed, and sequenced for on-time outcomes that create value.

Vendor and Offshore Delivery Governance

• Lead offshore delivery and vendor partnerships ensuring alignment on performance KPIs, resource quality, accountability and productivity.
•  Review vendor contracts, monthly invoices, and performance dashboards to ensure value realization.
• Develop trade-off models for resource optimization and delivery flexibility.
• Drive a unified global delivery model integrating vendor, offshore, and internal teams under common performance metrics

Risk and Compliance

• Maintain a comprehensive delivery risk register and ensure proactive mitigation