Vice President, Technology Operations

The Vice President, Technology Operations role serves as the operating executive to the CTO, responsible for managing the Technology Operating System across Infrastructure, Applications, Product, Security, Data, and PMO. This role exists to remove the CTO as the day-to-day integrator and escalation backstop, ensuring renewals, budgeting, governance, resilience, and cross-functional execution operate through durable control systems rather than executive intervention.

Requirements

• Minimum 12-20 years in enterprise technology environments with ownership of operating cadence and governance
• Experience at the VP / SVP / Head of Technology Operations level in multi-disciplinary technology organizations
• Demonstrated success in reducing executive operational load through durable control systems
• Experience in regulated or risk-sensitive environments (financial services or similar)
• High-accountability operator who drives closure without relying on formal reporting authority
• Comfortable enforcing standards across senior technical leaders
• Commercially aware; calm under escalation
• Focused on measurable outcomes and repeatable mechanisms over heroics
• Working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, SaaS, security posture, and resilience practices
• Experience overseeing automation initiatives as an operating discipline
• Familiarity with enterprise AI enablement in governed environments