Vice President, Engineering — Cloud, DevOps & AI Modernization; Onsite

Position: Vice President, Engineering — Cloud, DevOps & AI Modernization (Onsite
About Netsmart At Netsmart, we are focused on moving healthcare forward through technology that supports providers, clinicians, clients, and communities. As healthcare continues to evolve, our engineering teams are modernizing platforms, strengthening cloud-based delivery, improving Dev Ops practices, and exploring responsible AI-enabled capabilities that create meaningful value across our solutions.

About the Role Netsmart is seeking a Vice President, Engineering — Cloud, Dev Ops & AI Modernization to lead software engineering teams through the next stage of modernization and scale. This is a senior engineering leadership role for someone who has grown through software development, understands how complex applications are built and operated, and can lead teams through cloud transformation, Dev Ops maturity, and AI-aware product evolution.

This leader will provide strategic and operational leadership across engineering, partnering closely with Product, Architecture, Dev Ops, Cloud Infrastructure, Security, Compliance, Data, and business stakeholders.

The right candidate will bring strong software development credibility, cloud experience, Dev Ops leadership, a strong culture-first mindset, and experience working with global/offshore engineering teams, including teams in India.

This role is onsite in Overland Park, KS, and candidates must live in or relocate to the Greater Kansas City metro area.

What You’ll Do Engineering Leadership & Culture
• Lead and scale high-performing software engineering teams with a focus on accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and delivery discipline.
• Build a strong engineering culture rooted in ownership, trust, transparency, continuous improvement, and practical innovation.
• Coach and develop engineering leaders and teams while creating clarity around priorities, expectations, decision-making, and execution.
• Partner across Netsmart’s matrixed organization to align engineering priorities with business goals, client needs, product strategy, and operational commitments.
• Serve as a credible, hands-on executive who can engage with teams at both the strategic and technical level.

Software Development & Modernization
• Lead engineering execution across complex enterprise software platforms, balancing current-state application realities with future-state modernization goals.
• Guide teams through legacy application modernization, platform scalability, service decomposition, API-first design, architectural simplification, and cloud-readiness.
• Strengthen engineering practices across design, development, code quality, testing, security, reliability, observability, and production support.
• Partner with architecture and engineering leaders to establish reusable patterns, standards, and practices that improve consistency and speed across teams.
• Ensure teams can deliver stable, secure, scalable solutions while continuing to modernize core platforms over time.

Cloud, Dev Ops & Operational Excellence
• Drive cloud and Dev Ops maturity across engineering teams, including CI/CD, automation, infrastructure-as-code, deployment reliability, monitoring, observability, and incident readiness.
• Partner with Dev Ops, Cloud, Hosting, Security, and Infrastructure teams to improve how software is built, deployed, operated, and optimized.
• Guide engineering teams in building cloud-enabled solutions with a strong understanding of AWS, distributed systems, scalability, performance, security, and cost awareness.
• Promote engineering practices that improve release confidence, production stability, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.
• Help teams move from project-based transformation toward sustainable cloud and Dev Ops operating models.

AI-Aware Engineering &…