2026 - VP, Engineering – HR Technology

The VP of Engineering for HR Technology is responsible for leading the development of enterprise-grade HR data platforms, ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable systems, and partnering with HR and analytics teams to deliver data-driven solutions.

Location: United States

Responsibilities

• Lead and build full-stack, enterprise-grade platforms using Python, Java, Spring Boot, ReactJS, and SQL/NoSQL databases, while remaining hands-on with code.
• Own and drive Low-Level Design (LLD) and High-Level Design (HLD) with deep understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, and integration patterns.
• Architect and develop secure, compliant systems.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable APIs that support internal and external consumers with high performance and reliability.
• Drive non-functional requirements including security, availability, scalability, resiliency, performance, and observability.
• Lead engineering initiatives involving HR, people-operations, and workforce-analytics data, ensuring secure ingestion, modeling, governance, and integration of sensitive employee datasets across the firm's technology ecosystem.
• Partner with HR, Talent, and People Analytics teams to translate workforce-planning, compensation, performance-management, and organizational-design requirements into scalable technical solutions and data products.
• Implement robust data-quality, lineage, and privacy controls for HR data, ensuring compliance with regulatory, contractual, and internal governance standards.
• Actively mentor, coach, and develop junior and mid-level engineers, setting high engineering standards and fostering a strong engineering culture.
• Partner with product, data, and HR stakeholders to translate investment and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide strong technical leadership and hands-on guidance across the full software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrate an excellent understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design tradeoffs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven track record of hands-on development in enterprise-scale systems, preferably in HR.
• Strong proficiency in at least one core programming language (Python or Java).
• Deep experience with relational databases, NoSQL stores, and complex query design.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, iterative environments, balancing delivery with long-term architecture.
• Experience working with HR, people-operations, or workforce-analytics data, including sensitive-data handling, HRIS integrations (e.g., Dayforce, Culture Amp, etc.), and secure data-exchange patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to build or support platforms involving employee lifecycle data, compensation structures, organizational hierarchies, and talent-management workflows.