VP, Software Engineering - Core Systems

Responsibilities

• Own the technology strategy, roadmap, and operating model for the core systems in support of the Product Technology strategy and Cengage's enterprise product priorities.
• Advance the "build once, scale everywhere" strategy by creating reusable capabilities that improve scalability, reduce duplication, increase consistency, and accelerate speed to market.
• Establish shared AI infrastructure, data, retrieval, observability, safety, and platform services that enable product teams to create smart, adaptive learning experiences responsibly and efficiently.
• Skills you will need here
• Required
• 15+ years of software, platform, or enterprise technology experience, including substantial leadership of shared services or platform engineering organizations.
• 8+ years of senior engineering leadership experience, including leading leaders and geographically distributed teams across multiple domains, systems, and time zones.
• Experience defining and executing platform or shared-services strategies across complex product portfolios
• Experience running high-availability enterprise systems with clear reliability targets, incident management practices, oversight of system performance, and service-level accountability.
• Experience leading AI-enabled product platforms, personalization services, intelligent search, learning analytics, or enterprise data capabilities.
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms, mono

Additional Information

We believe in the power and joy of learning At Cengage, our employees have a direct impact in helping learners around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose - driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education. What you'll do here: As Vice President, Core Systems within Product Technology in the Digital organization, you will lead the organization responsible for shared technology capabilities that enable Cengage's digital products to scale across multiple markets and future verticals. This role serves as a critical member of Digital Technology leadership team, partnering closely with leaders across Higher Education, School, English Language Learning and Work. You will guide teams dedicated to shared core capabilities and advance Cengage's Core Systems strategy. You will build, buy oar partner to implement reusable capabilities once and scale them across vertical solutions. Business units will tailor the last mile for their specific markets and customers. You will partner closely with teams in Digital Product, Technology, DevOps, Information Security, IT operations to modernize our technology ecosystem, reduce platform complexity, improve reliability, accelerate delivery, and enable AI-powered learning experiences for learners, instructors, institutions, and workforce customers. You are a collaborative and pragmatic technology leader. You can build high-performing distributed teams and lead sophisticated modernization work. You operate effectively across product, platform, content, and key collaborators. You are expected to use data, customer insight, engineering judgment, and operational metrics to prioritize work and improve outcomes for learners, instructors, internal teams, and business partners.

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