AVP, Software Engineering & DevOps

About the Company:

Wealthspire is a leading wealth management, retirement advisory, and business management firm serving individuals, families, endowments, and institutions across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We provide a comprehensive platform that brings together wealth management, institutional consulting, business management, family office, and retirement plan advisory services-empowering clients to navigate complexity with clarity and confidence.

With over 1,200 employees across more than 40 offices, we deliver insights and solutions backed by deep research, technology, and decades of expertise. Our collective businesses create a unified ecosystem designed to meet clients wherever they are in their financial journey. Wealthspire is redefining the future of financial solutions through collaboration, scale, and a steadfast commitment to putting people first-our clients, our colleagues, and our communities.

For more information, visit  Wealthspire Advisors LLC, Fiducient Advisors LLC, Wealthspire Retirement, LLC, dba Wealthspire Retirement Advisory, and certain other affiliates are separately registered investment advisers.

The AVP, Software Engineering & Dev Ops owns software development, Dev Ops, and code delivery across the firm. This role is responsible for establishing engineering rigor, leading development execution, and ensuring code moves from concept through production reliably, securely, and repeatedly.

This role involves direct engineering and carrying out tasks that link development and infrastructure. Success depends on delivering production-ready solutions, advancing the development team's abilities, and minimizing manual or person-dependent delivery workflows.

Build a structured, scalable software engineering and Dev Ops function that connects development and infrastructure. Improve delivery speed and reliability. Consistently transform approved priorities into secure, maintainable production solutions.

• Own delivery across internally developed applications, integrations, automation, and supporting services
• Convert approved priorities into actionable technical plans with defined scope, order, ownership, and delivery commitments
• Lead solution build, code development, testing, release, and production stabilization
• Review and contribute code, troubleshoot critical issues, and make pragmatic technical decisions when required

• Own CI/CD, build and release automation, environment management, deployment controls, and production-readiness standards
• Implement repeatable provisioning, configuration, artifact management, and secret-management practices
• Reduce manual releases, environment drift, deployment failures, and reliance on individual employees or contractors
• Continuously improving delivery speed, quality, control, and recoverability

• Set realistic guidelines for architecture, coding, source control, code review, automated testing, documentation, and technical debt
• Guide and mentor developers with different experiences into a cohesive engineering team that follows consistent practices and maintains clear accountability
• Define ownership for applications, repositories, environments, releases, and production support
• Assess capability gaps and build the appropriate staffing model across employees, contractors, and strategic partners

• Act as the operational link between development and Infrastructure, Security, Data, Enterprise Applications, Architecture, and Program Management
• Ensure availability, performance, security, recoverability, supportability, and cost are addressed throughout the development lifecycle
• Establish application observability through actionable logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and support procedures
• Lead application incident response, root-cause analysis, and completion of corrective actions

• Speed, quality, and predictability of software delivery
• Code quality, testing rigor, documentation, and maintainability
• Reliability and efficiency of build, release, and deployment processes
• Preparation for production, application monitoring, and incident resolution
• Ability, responsibility, and output of the development team

• Business ideation, prioritization, or the enterprise opportunity pipeline
• Underlying enterprise infrastructure, network operations, or cybersecurity policy…