VP Software Engineering (Hybrid - Flexible Options)

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you're passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.

Broadridge is currently looking for a Vice President of Software Engineering to join our Global Software Engineering team. In this role you will lead the design, development, and modernization of a next-generation integrated platform, supporting our Global Securities Class Actions business. This platform underpins critical business capabilities, including large-scale data ingestion, data composition, extraction, and loading across global markets.

The role requires experience leading a globally distributed engineering organization with responsibility for building and enhancing new platforms within our cloud-native ecosystem. The VP will leverage their combination of technical depth, architectural vision, and proven people leadership to meet the software development roadmap. It will be critical to be able to manage strategic relationships with our key IT Product and services providers that help ensure systems' performance and service-level requirements are met or exceeded.

• IT Project Leadership:
  • Direct the Engineering team to align with the overall software development lifecycle related to Broadridge products and solutions, while providing leadership for critical IT application development areas

• Effectively partner with technology stakeholders - Architecture, Infrastructure/Site Reliability, Quality Assurance, and other IT leaders to ensure communication and collaboration across a diverse business and IT community

• Collaborate with product teams, senior business leaders, internal and external project stakeholders, as well as functional areas

• Manage strategic relationships with key IT Product and services providers to help ensure systems performance and service-level requirements are met or exceeded

• Monitor and provide updates on the strategic direction, implementation progress, issue resolution, project capabilities, limitations, and emerging innovations to Broadridge's Business Product organization

• Direct and deliver all projects through the application of comprehensive Agile SLDC processes

• Attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent; build a strong talent bench, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and innovation

• Provide coaching and mentorship to engineering team members

• Engineering, Architecture, Platform Execution & Oversight (end-to-end delivery):
  • Architecture & Design Review
    • Review the architecture, design, and implementation of Kafka-based solutions using Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform, ensuring they are highly scalable, resilient, and future-proof.
    • Plan, manage, and execute integration activities with third party IT vendors, including environment setup, configuration, data migration, and system validation.
    • Provide technical leadership in mapping data and building scalable and resilient software products

• Platform Management
  • Manage the end-to-end process for onboarding the application to Broadridge's Integrated Platform
  • Oversight of the integration to the new cloud-based structure utilizing Confluent Platform components: Kafka brokers, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and REST Proxy.

• Deployment & Automation
  • Lead deployments and configurations of new software build on both on-prem and cloud
  • Automate provisioning, deployment, and maintenance tasks with Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tools.

• Quality Engineering and Troubleshooting
  • Oversee Quality Engineering to implement robust monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks using Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, or similar tools
  • Proactively troubleshoot Kafka clusters, diagnose performance issues, and conduct root cause analysis for complex, distributed environments.

• Performance & Capacity Planning (review scale and performance)
  • Partnering closely with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Client Success teams to deliver successful platform integration outcomes
  • Conducts capacity planning - large data sets and patterns, while performance tuning to optimize Kafka clusters; ensure they can handle current and future data volumes.
  • Define and maintain SLA/SLI metrics to track latency, throughput, and downtime

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Information Systems or related field required (Master's Degree desirable)
• 15+ years progressive experience within a software development and application systems environment
• 15+ years of relevant IT experience within financial, investment, and /or fin-tech institutions, with IT project leadership experience in an enterprise software development organization
• 10+ years in a people leadership role, including experience leading a multi layered / matrixed enterprise technology team, setting priorities and plans to build software applications that meet business line goals and objectives

• Significant technical acumen, project experience, and a strong understanding of modern technologies such as React, Java, PostGresSQL, and Confluent Platform components: Kafka brokers, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and REST Proxy
• Heavy exposure to migrating existing systems applications onto an integrated platform/new cloud structure; significant familiarity with a multi-cloud environment
• Proven track record leading technology integration and/or transformation initiatives-such as modernizing legacy platforms and implementing modern frameworks and architectures
• Significant experience partnering with Executive business leaders to present status and drive projects to completion
• Extraordinary communication, written, and presentation skills; including the ability to explain technology solutions in business terms (effective communicator with the ability to present to groups of all sizes and levels of management)
• Experience with helping to set the technology roadmap/direction with a consistent track record delivering large scale IT solutions within a matrixed environment
• Strong background in building high-performing, collaborative, and diverse software development teams; able to mentor senior engineers and managers
• Financial acumen and experience managing a P&L