Engineering Executive

About Us:

At apexanalytix, we are lifelong innovators. Since our founding nearly four decades ago we have been consistently growing, profitable, and delivering the best procure-to-pay solutions to the world. We are the perfect balance of established company and start-up. You will find a unique home here.

Most of our clients are on The Global 2000. They trust us to give them the latest in controls, audit and analytics software every day. Industry analysts consistently rank us as a top supplier management solution, and you will be helping build that reputation.

Read more about apexanalytix: https://www.apexanalytix.com/about/

The Role

apexanalytix is seeking an engineering executive to serve as VP of Engineering, based in the United States, reporting to the Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) and sitting on the CPTO's leadership team. The role leads the engineering behind our two customer journeys, Supplier Journey and Buyer Journey. It is accountable for delivering them predictably, at high quality, and in a way that teams can own and run in production.

We are moving to the product operating model. Product, engineering and design are organized into four persistent trios, each funded against outcome goals: Supplier Journey, Buyer Journey, Data & Intelligence, and Platform. The VP of Engineering leads the Supplier and Buyer engineering leads and the US engineering teams in those journeys.

Quick Take

The VP of Engineering is the engineering partner to the VP of Product and the Head of Design in each trio, and works closely with the Head of AI & Data. The role also works with the SVP Engineering & Head of India GCC, the Chief Architect, the VP Technology Operations, and the Head of GRC. Experience leading engineering for enterprise SaaS products in empowered, outcome-funded teams is required.

Trusted Advisor

• Advises the CPTO and the executive team on engineering capacity, delivery risk, technical debt and the engineering investment needed to meet product and revenue goals.
• Brings an honest, data-backed view of feasibility to product discovery and investment decisions.
• Represents engineering to clients and partners on complex integrations, escalations and roadmap commitments, alongside Product and Go-to-Market leaders.

The Work

• Journey engineering. Leads the Supplier Journey and Buyer Journey engineering leads and their teams.
• Shared moments. Owns engineering for the moments suppliers and buyers share.
• Agents in the workflow. Makes sure journey teams build agent experiences on the shared building blocks from Data & Intelligence.
• Shared building blocks. Works with the Head of AI & Data so journey teams use shared data, scores, models and agent building blocks well.
• Workflow data. Makes sure journey workflows capture clean, well-defined data.
• Consistent standards. Agrees with the Head of AI & Data how models and agents move into production.
• Empowered teams. Builds persistent engineering teams that own outcomes with their product and design partners.
• Predictable delivery. Is accountable for predictable, high-quality delivery against the outcomes each trio commits to.
• Quality and practices. Raises the bar on code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability and secure development. Tracks and improves DORA measures, defect escape rate and incident trends.
• Production ownership. Ensures teams own what they build in production, including on-call, incident response and root-cause follow-through.
• Architecture and standards. Contributes to the global architecture council and makes sure teams follow standards and pay down technical debt deliberately.
• Organization. Leads engineering leads, managers and senior engineers across the Supplier Journey and Buyer Journey teams.
• Global teams. Partners with the SVP Engineering & Head of India GCC so that Noida engineers work as full members of journey teams.
• Talent. Owns hiring, development, career paths and retention for US engineering.
• Budget and reporting. Owns the engineering budget for these teams and gives the CPTO regular reporting on delivery, quality, reliability and team health.

First-Year Priorities

• Organize engineering into persistent teams aligned to the Supplier Journey and Buyer Journey, and appoint or hire the engineering leads to run them.
• Agree first-year outcome goals and engineering plans with product and design leaders for both journey trios.
• Agree with the Head of AI & Data how journey teams use shared data and agent building blocks, and ship at least one agent experience to production standards.
• Assign a lead team for each supplier-buyer shared moment, and deliver at least one measurable improvement to a shared workflow.
• Set a baseline for delivery predictability, DORA measures, defect escape rate and production incidents, and show measurable improvement against it.
• Make sure every team owns its services in production, with on-call, runbooks and service-level objectives agreed with Technology Operations.
• Establish career ladders and a hiring plan for US engineering, including the technical track.

Required Skills

• 15+ years in software engineering, including 7+ years leading engineering organizations of 50+ engineers through managers and directors in enterprise SaaS.
• A proven record of delivering complex B2B products predictably and at high quality, and of turning around delivery or quality problems.
• Experience building integration-heavy, data-intensive workflow products for enterprise clients at scale.
• Experience working in empowered product teams under the product operating model.
• Strong technical depth in cloud-native SaaS architecture, distributed systems, integration and data-intensive platforms.
• Hands-on familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, DevSecOps and AI-assisted development.
• Experience bringing AI and agent capabilities into production workflows with appropriate guardrails and quality measures.
• A track record of hiring, developing and retaining strong engineering leaders and senior engineers.
• Experience leading distributed teams across US and India time zones.
• Experience operating in security- and compliance-regulated environments (for example SOC 1, SOC 2 and ISO 27001).
• Strong executive presence, able to represent engineering credibly to the CPTO, the executive team, clients and the Board.

Preferred Skills

• Domain experience in procure-to-pay, accounts payable, supplier management, payment fraud prevention, risk or fintech.
• Experience building integrations with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle or Microsoft Dynamics.
• Experience in a PE-backed or high-growth SaaS company, connecting engineering investment to revenue and margin.

Benefits

At apexanalytix we know that our associates are the reason behind our successes. Our goal is to offer the very best benefits possible to you and your loved ones. apexanalytix offers competitive benefits for the countries that we serve, in addition to our BeWell@apex initiative that encourages employees' growth in six key wellness areas: Emotional, Physical, Community, Financial, Social, and Intelligence.

With resources such as a strong Mentor Program, Internal Training Portal, plus Education, Tuition, and Certification Assistance, we provide tools for our associates to grow and develop.