Imagine yourself...- Building the technology that becomes the world's most trusted water intelligence platform, turning complex data into critical decisions that protect communities, ecosystems, and public health.
- Leading high-performing engineering teams at a market-leading SaaS company with a global customer base, strong recurring revenue, and a bold vision for AI-enabled innovation.
- Leaving a legacy beyond software by creating solutions that help safeguard one of the world's most essential resources: WATER.
It's possible with a role at Aquatic Informatics (https://aquaticinformatics.com/).
Reporting to the Vice President & General Manager, the
VP of Software Engineering will lead AQI's software engineering organization and define the architectural and platform strategy that enables Product's roadmap. This leader will balance strategic vision with deep technical engagement-knowing when to operate at the executive level and when to get close to the work to unblock teams, challenge assumptions, and accelerate delivery. The VP of Software Engineering will lead engineering, architecture, DevOps, and platform teams to modernize legacy products, scale cloud and on-prem solutions, leverage AI to accelerate development, and deliver high-quality software that helps customers use water data and analytics to improve global water management.
The candidate should based in
Vancouver, BC. This role requires approximately
20% travel including travel to Canada and the U.S.
What you will do: • Define and execute AQI's architecture and platform strategy in close partnership with Product Management, translating product direction into the technical "how" that enables faster, scalable delivery.
• Lead a distributed engineering organization of approximately 60-80 associates, including a senior L2 leadership team across Canada, the U.S. and India.
• Modernize legacy code, platforms, and products while supporting cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-prem solutions across Azure and AWS environments.
• Accelerate software delivery and product releases while maintaining quality, security, reliability, and customer impact.
• Establish engineering excellence through modern Agile, DevOps, architectural governance, prioritization, trade-off decision-making, and execution rigor.
• Leverage AI for coding and development acceleration, with the opportunity to support AI-enabled product capabilities that customers can use.
• Coach, mentor, and inspire engineering leaders while fostering collaboration, accountability, followership, and a team-first culture that fits AQI's mission-driven environment.
What you bring • 15+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with at least 7 years in engineering leadership roles.
• Proven ability to lead software organizations through scale, modernization, platform evolution, and improved speed of delivery.
• Experience leading leaders in multi-layer engineering organizations, including coaching autonomous senior managers without becoming a gatekeeper or micromanager.
• Strong technical depth across software architecture, cloud-native and on-prem platforms, Azure and AWS, APIs, DevOps practices, and scalable enterprise software systems.
• Track record of measurable impact, such as accelerating development, improving product release velocity, modernizing platforms, increasing quality, reducing complexity, or enabling customer and business outcomes.
• Mission-driven mindset and genuine interest in AQI's purpose: using water data, analytics, and technology to support water conservation, chemical savings, energy savings, environmental impact, and smarter water management.
The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate's position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.
The salary range for this position is $225,000 - $275,000 CAD for candidates based in Canada. This reflects our good-faith estimate of the expected compensation for this role at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, experience, education and location.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health insurance and RSP to eligible employees.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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