SVP of Engineering

Senior Vice President Of Engineering

SymphonyAI is a global leader in enterprise AI, delivering industry-specific SaaS solutions that help retailers, manufacturers, distributors, and consumer goods companies optimize their supply chains through intelligent planning, execution, and automation.

We are looking for a Senior Vice President of Engineering to lead the engineering organization for our Retail Supply Chain platform. This executive will drive the evolution of a mission-critical enterprise platform serving global customers while balancing operational excellence with long-term modernization. The ideal leader is equally comfortable scaling engineering organizations, modernizing complex legacy platforms, and partnering with product and customers to deliver business outcomes.

• Lead and scale a high-performing global engineering organization, with a primary development presence in France.
• Build a culture of accountability, technical excellence, innovation, and customer focus.
• Develop engineering leaders and establish predictable execution across multiple product teams.
• Drive engineering metrics around quality, reliability, security, scalability, and delivery.

• Own the end-to-end engineering strategy, architecture, and delivery for SymphonyAI's Retail Supply Chain platform.
• Ensure the stability, performance, and availability of mission-critical enterprise applications used by global retailers.
• Balance customer commitments, technical debt reduction, modernization initiatives, and new product innovation.

Lead the transformation of a mature enterprise platform by driving:

• API-first architecture
• Event-driven systems and streaming technologies (Kafka preferred)
• Cloud-native services across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Microsoft Azure
• Modern engineering practices, automation, observability, and Dev Ops

Execute modernization through incremental evolution while maintaining uninterrupted service for enterprise customers.

• Embed AI capabilities across the platform, including intelligent workflows, automation, predictive insights, and data enrichment.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, and Architecture teams to define the next generation of AI-powered supply chain capabilities.
• Champion the adoption of emerging technologies that improve customer outcomes and engineering productivity.

• Partner closely with Product Management, Customer Success, Professional Services, and Executive Leadership.
• Translate technical investments into measurable customer and business value.
• Participate in executive customer engagements, providing strategic technical leadership for large enterprise accounts.

• A highly reliable, scalable, enterprise-grade supply chain platform
• Successful modernization of legacy technologies without disrupting customers
• Increased engineering velocity and predictable delivery
• AI capabilities embedded across the platform
• Strong engineering culture with high engagement and retention
• Trusted partnership with product, customers, and executive leadership

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 7+ years leading large engineering organizations.
• Experience managing globally distributed engineering teams.
• Proven ability to scale engineering organizations through periods of transformation and growth.

Strong experience with enterprise software platforms, including:

• Oracle Database
• PL/SQL
• Pro
  * C or C/C++-based enterprise environments
• Java application development (Java 8+)
• REST APIs and microservices
• Event-driven architectures (Kafka preferred)
• Cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
• Modern Dev Ops, CI/CD, observability, and engineering best practices

• Demonstrated success modernizing complex enterprise software platforms.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to align engineering strategy with business objectives and customer outcomes.
• Experience operating in fast-paced, evolving…