VP Front-end Development (6322)

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and accomplished Vice President, Frontend Engineering that has shipped multiple highly rated applications to lead our growing software engineering team for web, mobile, and connected TV apps. Reporting to the SVP, Product Development, the VP is responsible for delivering state of the art experiences for our customers and employees that are low latency and highly available. The VP will recruit, lead, and mentor software engineers that develop multiple applications with server-driven user interfaces using iterative and empirical approaches. They will collaborate with product management, design, and stakeholders to systematically define and deliver human centric products that make Altice USA a trusted service provider. 

The role is pivotal in ensuring our employees and customers are delivered experiences that meet their needs and wants, while driving returns on investments. The VP will level up our engineering strategy and operations by applying rigorous architecture, software design, documentation, and quality assurance principles ultimately being measured by their end users’ satisfaction.  

Responsibilities

• Leads, mentors, and scales the frontend engineering team as well as championing a strong develops culture 


• Delivers frontend applications that achieve 5 star ratings from their users 


• Employs the art and science of software engineering to be a leader in establishing product vision and strategy 


• Develops and implements comprehensive processes that increases delivery velocity without compromising quality across multiple teams 


• Guides the adoption of new data formats, data stores, and patterns for performance and data locality, consulting regularly across teams for input / feedback 


• Defines and models practices and culture that values and encourages cross-functional collaboration 


• Defines, realigns and understands cross-org implications of monitoring and response policies 


• Regularly interacts with end users (customers / employees) to understand their needs / wants 


• Connects multiple data hypothesis together to establish a larger narrative supported through data 


• Transforms ideas into elegant and simple architectures and software designs that are validated within budget and technology constraints 


• Anticipates the delta in effort between options with functional partners 


• Coaches others on best practices for architecture, software design, coding, and documentation 


• Ensures regulatory and corporate policy compliance, consistently employing privacy / security by design  


• Advocates for the importance of continuous, rapid testing and learning 


• Consistently helps teams overcome obstacles and complete work 


• Delivers and operates software that achieves successful outcomes consistently 


• Defines career paths to help the team identify opportunities for growth and achieve their goals 


• Partners regularly with senior leadership stakeholders 
  
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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field; Master’s degree preferred 


• Minimum of fifteen years of software and hardware product development with increasing leadership experience. 


• Financial acumen to understand and articulate the company's profits and losses financials, contributing as a leader in ROI and budget analysis 


• Demonstrated data literacy in support of engineering delivery and operations decisions 


• Deep architecture design experience, consulting teammates on specific difficult areas of the design and setting up new projects for architectural success 


• Demonstrated understanding of technical debt as a long-term budgeting and risk management tool, articulating when to incur more and when to pay it down 


• Expertise with popular frontend and services programming languages across a range of device types, databases, devops automation, and workflow tools  


• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing learning and professional development in the field of product development 


• Exceptional customer communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills. Ability to make informed decisions under pressure and effectively manage engineering deliveries in support of an exceptional customer experience 


• Demonstrated ability to drive process improvements and optimize operational efficiency 


• Project management skills and the ability to oversee multiple initiatives concurrently 


• Exhibits natural and intuitive stakeholder and user empathy