Hybrid VP, Software Engineering

at Broadridge

• Job title: VP, Software Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $240,000 - $250,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, ETL, Kafka
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Newark, United States

About the role

• Vice President of Software Engineering leading design and modernization of integrated platforms for customer communications at Broadridge. Overseeing engineering teams and driving cloud-native architectural initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of an integrated platform that supports our high-volume customer communications business.
• Oversee data architecture, including data modeling, ETL pipelines, and integration across internal and external systems.
• Define and drive the target architecture for modernizing legacy platforms, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and performance.
• Champion cloud-native design patterns using AWS services, event-driven architectures, and streaming platforms such as Kafka.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with Broadridge’s enterprise platform architecture.
• Own end-to-end software delivery, from strategy and roadmap through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operations.
• Establish engineering best practices for CI/CD, code quality, observability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Ensure platforms meet strict requirements for availability, performance, compliance, and data integrity.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, tooling, and modern development practices.
• Lead, inspire, and scale a high-performing global engineering organization.
• Attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent; build strong leadership benches across regions.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and inclusion.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to senior engineering leaders and architects.
• Partner closely with product management, business leaders, and operations to align technology delivery with business objectives.
• Communicate technical strategy, risks, and progress clearly to executive leadership.
• Balance near-term delivery commitments with long-term transformation goals.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including senior leadership roles managing large, global teams.
• Proven experience building and modernizing large-scale, enterprise platforms, including transformation of legacy systems.
• Strong development experience with: AWS (cloud-native services, scalability, security), Kafka, Data modeling and large-scale data architectures, ETL / data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Experience with high-volume, mission-critical systems such as transaction processing / financial services platforms is strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-year transformation initiatives.
• Built, mentored, and led high performing, distributed, Agile engineering teams.
• Championed the use of AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, quality, and delivery speed.

Benefits

• Bonus Eligible
• Please visit www.broadridgebenefits.com for more information on our comprehensive benefit offerings.
• All Colorado employees receive paid sick leave in compliance with the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act and other legally required benefits, as applicable.