VP, Implementation Engineering

The VP, Implementation Engineering provides critical direction for the strategic management of enterprise-level application integrations. This role serves as a member of the IT leadership team and leads the definition and development of enterprise-level technologies and services that are used to integrate API applications with client and other third-party applications to deliver solutions for our clients. 
Hybrid role, requiring 3 days in our Markham office. 

Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Requires extensive interaction with customers and third-party technology partners, as well as internal management of software application development. 
• Responsible for developing solution architectures, creating and owning implementations, and driving API technology deployments. This is both a strategic and hands-on leadership role. 

• Oversee enterprise application development activities and provide strategic vision and leadership. 

• Initiate and foster business partnerships across the organization that increase efficiency and effectiveness; balance business partner needs with API priorities, business strategies, and objectives. 

• Cultivate an environment of continuous improvement, ensuring the highest levels of stability and performance for enterprise applications. 

• Develop and use standardized approaches and frameworks for integration for both near-real time and batch data. 

• Stay abreast of new vulnerabilities and use knowledge in security to protect applications and data. 

• Leverage SaaS and PaaS services 

• Incorporate critical application improvements into release cycles to enhance production stability. 

• Follow industry-standard development and deployment processes (SDLC, DevOps, version control) 

• Provide direct oversight to Software Developer including performance evaluations, coaching, and professional development. 

Required Skills, Education and Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree preferred, and 10 years of related experience to include software technology managerial experience for complex applications. 

• Prior experience with performance management, managing managers, resource forecasting and hiring, job development, unit organizational structure, resource allocation, skills forecasting and development, direct report coaching and development. 

• Prior experience with leading the implementation and customization of large-scale, mission critical applications with real-time data integrations. 

• Strong depth of experience in working with client technology teams to design optimized integrations between their systems and API systems. 

• Background in hands-on software development using Java technologies, as well as Apache Tomcat, Weblogic & TomEE. 
• Experience using and implementing SOAP/REST based web services using XML/JSON. 
• Familiarity with AWS cloud technologies, cloud deployment tools and container orchestration. 

• Strong background and experience with airline and travel applications and standards. 

• Demonstrated ability to work with a broad variety of constituents including business development, product and program management.