VP Solutions Engineering

Job Summary

AgCountry Farm Credit Services (AgCountry), Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) and Frontier Farm Credit are financial cooperatives that operate under shared management across eight states. While each association is owned by its local farmers and ranchers, they collaborate by pooling resources, expertise, and talent to provide affordable credit, crop insurance, and financial services. Our associations are united by a common mission and commitment to serving rural America and supporting each other, which drives the success of the farmers, ranchers, and agribusiness we serve.

We take pride in being a great place to work, and this enthusiasm is reflected in the relationships our team members foster with one another and with our customers.

We are seeking a VP Solutions Engineering who will lead teammates responsible for solution architecture, application data design, and integration engineering capabilities that support software delivery across the organization. Reporting to the SVP Application Development, this role works closely with product and development teams to design scalable, secure, maintainable, and business-aligned solutions while accelerating delivery outcomes. The VP champions technical excellence, modern engineering practices, reusable design patterns, and effective technology adoption.

This leader helps development teams navigate complex solutions, integration, and data challenges while promoting consistency, quality, and long-term sustainability across the application portfolio.

• Partner closely with application development teams to support solution design, planning, and delivery.
• Establish reusable solution patterns, integration approaches, and engineering practices that improve delivery speed and quality.
• Promote scalable, secure, maintainable, and well-integrated technology solutions.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to align delivery practices with architecture standards and principles.
• Guide technical trade-off decisions and help teams balance business needs, risk, complexity, and investment.
• Support modernization efforts through incremental improvements and practical application of modern engineering practices.
• Drive adoption of quality automation, AI-assisted development, and engineering productivity capabilities where appropriate.

• Share leadership with team members by empowering them to make decisions. This includes allowing them to take initiative, providing access to information and resources, and holding them accountable. Encourage team members to act autonomously and to contribute ideas and solutions.
• Provide team leadership, shared vision, and positive communications to achieve the Associations’ vision and strategy consistent with the Associations’ core values and team principles. Build strong relationships and collaborative partnerships within the Associations to understand the business opportunities and challenges.
• Establish a positive, participative, and collaborative team environment that inspires creative, high-performing, continuous learning, and engaged team members. Utilize consensus decision-making, when appropriate, to diversify thinking and enable and empower teammates.
• Responsible for attracting, selecting, and on-boarding a diverse and qualified team and determining the appropriate team resource requirements to meet the Associations’ strategic direction.
• Develop team members through coaching, training and development, opportunities, and on-going performance feedback including timely follow-up on individual development plans; counsel team members on Talent Management activities.
• Complete and/or recommend salary administration for team members in accordance with Association…