SVP - Head of Product and Engineering

Position:SVP - Head of Product and Engineering

Location: Draper, UT

Remote Status: On-Site

Job :1004

# of Openings:1

The Product and Engineering Leader will lead Sunwest Bank’s product management and software delivery functions in the technology organization. The position owns product and software delivery portfolio visibility, builds and executes on product roadmaps, discovery, prioritization, requirements quality, launch readiness, and performance measurement across assigned digital, data, payments, operational, and internal platform initiatives. This leader will work with their management team to build highly accountable and delivery focused teams to drive the strategy and tactical delivery of Sunwest Bank’s external and internal customer software solutions.

In the first year, this leader will:

• Publish a three-year technical roadmap, sequenced against business priorities, regulatory commitments, and actual delivery capacity, and defend it to executive leadership and the business partners.
• Establish a predictable delivery cadence with measurable throughput, quality, and commitment reliability across the development organization.
• Set the architecture and design standards for the Bank's software, including the integration patterns between custom applications, the core banking platform, and third-party systems.
• Assess the organization structure, roles, and talent, and build the team that is required to deliver at the level the Bank needs.

Schedule:

Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM; additional hours may be required for releases, incidents, or critical initiatives

Work Location:

Onsite Hybrid Remote

Travel:
Occasional, up to 10%

• Own the technical roadmap. Build and maintain a three-year roadmap for the Bank's software and data capabilities - what gets built, what gets bought, what gets retired, and in what order. Sequence it honestly against capacity, dependencies, regulatory deadlines, and the Bank's acquisition activity. Revisit it on a defined cadence and tell executive leadership when it changes and why.
• Be accountable for delivery. Own throughput, quality, and predictability across the software organization. Establish engineering practices - branching and release strategy, testing, code review, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and technical debt management - and hold the organization to them. Report delivery performance in terms the business understands: what was committed, what shipped, what slipped and why.
• Direct architecture and design. Set the architecture direction for the Bank's custom software in the absence of a dedicated architecture function: application and data architecture, integration patterns with the core banking platform and third‑party vendors, API and event standards, cloud platform design, and security‑by‑design practices developed in partnership with Information Security. Personally review significant technical designs and make the calls that cross team boundaries.
• Lead build-versus-buy with intellectual honesty. Evaluate where custom software creates durable advantage for the Bank and where a vendor product is the better answer. Own the technical diligence, total‑cost analysis, integration assessment, and implementation plan for buy decisions, and the business case for build decisions.
• Integrate product and engineering into one operating model. Unify discovery, prioritization, requirements quality, estimation, release planning and post‑launch measurement across the Product and Development functions, with clear roles and a single intake path for the business.
• Lead the AI and data function. Direct the Bank's data platform and AI initiatives toward production outcomes rather than demonstrations, with appropriate model, data, and…