VP of Software Engineering - Aquatic Informatics

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 (). Aquatic Informatics (AQI), a Veralto company, is a mission-driven software company that organizes the world’s water data to make it accessible and useful. We provide software solutions that address critical water data management, analytics, and compliance challenges for the rapidly growing water industry. We offer a full range of solutions, from standalone software packages for individual users, hosted software services, and enterprise-wide national systems.

We serve over 1,000 municipal, federal, state/provincial, hydropower, mining, academic, and consulting organizations in over 60 countries that collect, manage, and process large volumes of water data. Aquatic Informatics is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada and has offices in the US and Australia. We value independent thinking, initiative, teamwork, a relentless pursuit of quality, a playful spirit, and a sense of humor.

We like smart people – IQ and EQ – who care about the environment and want to do good in the world. Ours is a unique culture where purpose meets possibility: where the work we do makes a real difference on the world’s valuable water resources, and where you’ll have opportunities to own your ambition and fuel your career growth.

• Flexible working hours
• Professional onboarding and training options
• Powerful team looking forward to working with you
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• Health benefits

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, Dev Ops, 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 or Loveland, CO. This role requires approximately 20% travel including travel to Canada and the U.S.

• 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, Dev Ops, 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…