AVP, Software Engineering - Enterprise Services

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

AVP, Software Engineering

Management Level

Assistant Vice Presidents (AVP)

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

No

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $217,400.00 - $362,300.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

The AVP, Software Engineering - Enterprise Services provides senior engineering leadership serving the entire Cox Automotive enterprise at scale — with full accountability for both end-to-end value delivery and the health, depth, and innovation of the engineering platforms that enable it. Leads software engineering organization across Financial Platforms, Service Enablement, Data, Analytics and AI, and Master Data, ensuring each platform is built and maintained with engineering excellence and AI readiness.  Engages with cross-functional leadership to understand business requirements, architecture and technology direction and evaluate alternative approaches, ensuring software and systems are designed accordingly.  Incorporates state-of-the-art concepts and practices to facilitate system functionality, scalability, resilience and security, as well as ease-of-use (developer / user experience), and accountable for driving Cox Automotive's AI Transformation across the full engineering lifecycle.

Primary Duties/Key Responsibilities

• Serves as the single engineering escalation point for value stream delivery 

• Operates as a peer to Product leadership on roadmap prioritization, delivery planning, and stakeholder communication across the full portfolio.  

• Holds Platform Leaders accountable for platform health, technical depth, AI tooling adoption, and the performance of Value Stream Leaders within their organizations — ensuring delivery accountability flows through the platform org all the way to E2E business outcomes. 

• Establishes appropriate engineering operating model for value stream delivery — including release cadence, quality gates, and automated validation standards. 

• Resolves cross-platform engineering dependencies and release coordination across multiple concurrent platform teams to maintain delivery velocity. 

• Accountable for the health and strategic direction of Cox Automotive's Oracle EBS environments and leads the enterprise's adoption of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) — balancing near-term platform stability with a long-term path toward cloud-native operations. 

• Accountable for operations and support across Enterprise Platforms. 

• Develops and retains Platform Leaders — setting clear expectations for technical excellence, platform innovation, AI transformation readiness, and the development of Value Stream Leaders within their organizations. Builds a strong leadership pipeline. 

• Leads AI Transformation (AiT) execution across the value stream — driving adoption of spec-driven development, AI-assisted engineering tooling, and AI-enabled delivery practices. 

• Defines the shared AI backbone for all the Cox Auto enterprise, ensuring that data infrastructure, AI tooling, and analytics platforms are accessible, governed, and operationalized across business units and functions. 

• Partners with enterprise architecture and data solutions to shape Cox Auto's long-term AI and data strategy 

• Reimagines service management at enterprise scale, to a proactive, AI-enabled operations backbone that automates how work gets done across Cox Automotive and reduces friction at every layer of the organization. 

• Keeps abreast of current and future business, industry, and technology trends — with particular focus on AI-enabled development practices and their applicability to the value stream. 

• Stays ahead of vendor AI roadmaps and negotiates from a position of technical credibility. 

• Establishes long-range direction for software product research and development within the value stream, aligned to Cox Automo