Svp Engineering Job at Hazelcast

Job Description

We are seeking a visionary, inspirational Senior Vice President of Engineering to lead and scale our global engineering function. They will be responsible for defining our multi-year technical strategy, leading the organization at an executive level, and ensuring the quality, performance, and resilience of our Java open-source based in-memory Real-Time Data Platform. This role requires an executive leader who is a strategic business partner to the C-suite, a champion of engineering excellence, and a driver of enterprise-wide innovation who can balance long-term technical vision with predictable, world-class execution.

Job Responsibility

Define and champion a multi-year technology strategy and architectural vision that anticipates market trends and directly aligns with the company’s long-term business objectives and revenue growth
Collaborate at the executive level with Product Management to define, prioritize, and drive the technical direction of the product roadmap, ensuring engineering input enhances technical execution, architectural quality, commercial value, differentiated packaging, and timely delivery
Drive, own, and manage end-to-end engineering delivery against the product roadmap, utilizing agile methodologies to ensure rapid, predictable, and high-quality releases at an enterprise scale
Maintain and continuously elevate world-class standards for system quality, performance, security, and resilience across the entire platform, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability for our largest customers
Provide executive oversight for core technical domains (distributed systems, high-performance Java, concurrency, streaming, data structures) while aggressively evaluating and integrating emerging technologies to maintain a competitive market edge
Manage the engineering budget, drive ROI on technology investments, and optimize resource allocation to ensure maximum business impact and operational efficiency
Steward Hazelcast’s open-source core with a strong commitment to transparency, stability, and long-term compatibility, ensuring community trust while advancing enterprise capabilities
Balance the needs of commercial customers with the expectations of a global, user-led open-source community, making principled, strategic decisions about feature placement, deprecations, and roadmap visibility
Serve as a prominent voice and advocate for the company within the broader open-source and real-time data ecosystems, influencing industry standards and building strategic technological partnerships
Convert high-volume user feedback from diverse production environments into clear engineering priorities, ensuring the OSS platform remains robust, predictable, and widely adoptable
Maintain disciplined reliability across Hazelcast’s multi-language client ecosystem and seamless upgrades for all users
Champion exceptional developer and operator experience, driving documentation quality, release clarity, and community engagement to strengthen Hazelcast’s ecosystem
Lead, motivate, and manage a highly distributed, global engineering team, fostering a people-centric managerial approach and an aggressive, collaborative engineering culture
Instill a strong product-led, innovation-led ethos within the department, guiding engineering teams to build and develop the product as a customer acquisition and value-delivery tool
Evolve and optimize the organisational structure for maximum performance, resilience, scalability, and ownership to support the company's next phase of growth
Lead global headcount planning to ensure a right-sized, highly skilled, and diverse engineering organisation
Build a robust leadership bench and succession plan for critical technical and managerial roles
Identify, coach, mentor, and develop engineering directors and managers within the organisation, creating clear career paths for both technical and managerial career tracks
Ensure teams are empowered and aligned with company goals, providing frequent, actionable, and constructive feedback to support personal development and measure team outcomes
Partner closely with the CEO, and other C-level executives to report on engineering performance, technological risks, and strategic opportunities
Serve as an executive sponsor for key enterprise accounts
Partner with Sales to engage in high-stakes C-level prospect meetings, acting as the ultimate technical authority for the company
Inspire and engage advanced developers globally, encouraging contributions to our open-source projects and fostering a vibrant technical community

Requirements

12+ years of progressive leadership experience in software engineering, with at least 7+ years operating at the VP, SVP, or CTO level, preferably in a B2B enterprise software or platform company
Demonstrated experience fostering a product-led culture and driving commercial results through engineering excellence
Proven ability to manage large departmental budgets, optimize engineering spend, and translate complex technical decisions into clear business value for executive-level stakeholders
Deep understanding of complex architectures, concurrent, distributed systems, high-performance compute, and real-time data architectures
Excel at balancing open-source community expectations with enterprise requirements, maintaining rigorous public API discipline, documentation standards, and governance practices
Experience nurturing a global developer and operator community—across polyglot clients, cloud-native deployments, and hybrid environments
Proven track record of successfully scaling and leading a geographically distributed, international engineering organisation of significant size
A strong foundation in the core technologies relevant to the Hazelcast platform including Java, concurrency, networking, data streaming, SQL, distributed data stores, data grids
Ability to engage deeply with Principal Engineers and Architects on complex technical designs
Expertise in modern agile methodologies and continuous delivery pipelines, focused on delivering product capabilities rapidly, reliably, and at scale
Comfortable working backward from the customer and working in an 'open-kitchen,' GTM aligned environment
Strategic Visionary & Entrepreneurial Spirit
Executive Communication: Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills, capable of communicating complex technical strategy to both internal teams (engineering, product) and external stakeholders (C-level customers, analysts, board)
Influence: Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries, driving alignment between Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing at the highest levels
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (Master’s or equivalent advanced degree preferred)

What we offer

25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays + Quarterly Wellbeing Days
Group Company Pension Plan
Private Medical Insurance
Private Dental Insurance
Life Insurance
EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

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