VP/Head of Engineering

Summary

Join the Community Tech Alliance (CTA) as their VP/Head of Engineering and lead their engineering team and technical vision. Partner with executive, product, and partnerships teams, fostering a creative environment and mentoring engineers. Leverage open-source and cloud-based tools like Google BigQuery, Cloud Composer, and dbt. Build applications in Django, React, and NodeJS to enhance data engineering accessibility. Shape CTA's technical vision, manage the engineering team, and own the technical architecture. Collaborate with leadership to align engineering priorities with organizational goals. Oversee vendor relationships and support a shared data platform. Serve as the primary technical contact for clients and represent CTA as a technical thought leader. This is a remote position located anywhere in the US.

Requirements

• Have experience architecting solutions leveraging cloud-based infrastructure projects with multiple contributors and stakeholders
• Have several years of day-to-day engineering management experience, leading both technical and people responsibilities. You should have experience or interest in managing engineering managers
• Be ready to dive into solving problems, writing code alongside the team, while also helping to guide our larger technical vision
• Have experience working day-to-day using a popular data warehouse, preferably BigQuery, but also warehouses like Redshift, Vertica, or Snowflake
• Bring a security- and reliability-first mindset to how we build and support products, and our CTA workplace
• Have led teams through intense delivery periods while still empowering engineers to bring their best work to our organization
• Be comfortable as the primary external face of CTA’s engineering team and vision

Responsibilities

• Shape and drive our technical vision to meet CTA’s and our partners’ objectives and strategic goals
• Lead and manage a small but high-leverage engineering team, including direct reports and an engineering manager with their own reports. Foster an accountable and values-aligned culture
• Own our technical architecture and infrastructure with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and sustainability as the organization scales its contract and client service model
• Remain hands-on with key technologies including GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, dbt, Docker, Django, and React to support critical initiatives and fill gaps while the team grows
• Collaborate with the VP of Product, COO, and CEO to align engineering priorities with organizational goals, client deliverables, and strategic direction, and help lead on implementation of these on objectives internally and externally
• Oversee vendor relationships and technical procurement, particularly for cloud infrastructure, data tooling, and client implementations
• Support and evolve a shared data platform that powers data ingestion, transformation, and access for Partners, with reliability and privacy in mind
• Oversee and assist with escalations or outages as needed, which may require availability outside of standard working hours
• Serve as point for the technical team in client conversations, helping translate partner needs into scoped, feasible work as the organization shifts toward an agency model
• Represent CTA as a technical thought leader

Benefits

• Generous healthcare, vision & dental insurance for employees
• Matching 401(k) contributions
• Generous paid time off (PTO)
• Generous holiday schedule
• Paid family leave
• We are a remote-first organization, so we provide equipment reimbursement