VP-Cloud Engineering & AI Platforms

Cloud, Ai, Advanced Analytics, And Devops Leader

Lead the strategy, planning, and delivery of the organization's cloud, AI, advanced analytics, and DevOps capabilities. Create innovative strategy and vision, provide clear and effective direction, champion standards, and lead the department's efforts ensuring optimization, alignment, and successful execution of organizational objectives. Utilize expertise of industry principles, standards, and best practices to efficiently drive delivery of world class technologies meeting scalability, performance, security, quality, and reliability objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and develop a highly effective technical organization with required skills and structure to meet current and future business needs. Drive quality, efficiency, and positive organizational energy through effective hiring, mentoring, career planning, talent management, and employee engagement initiatives. Provide frequent and effective communication to staff ensuring understanding and alignment to the organization's key priorities and objectives, and deliverables.
• Employ technical, market, and industry expertise to influence business strategy based on technology needs / vision (ideate and demonstrate how technology can support and drive the organization). Translate business needs and strategy into short and long-term technology strategies. Drive said strategies by providing vision, leadership, and innovation to technology delivery teams.
• Lead the annual budget and financial planning process for assigned organization and technical assets that include, but are not limited to, cost / benefit estimates on proposed projects, prioritization of projects, and investment decisions based on return on investment, criticality, and business strategy / need. Manage various technology delivery and business unit budgets while ensuring that the business maximizes value from dollars expended on resources (people, projects, applications, and infrastructure).
• Develop and drive a resource modeling strategy to effectively balance the use of employees, contractors, and vendor partners to maximize efficiency, technical capability, cost, and quality of the organization and its technical assets. Address talent challenges by modifying said strategy as needed. Pro-actively collaborates with procurement to execute and analyze resource strategy. Partner with vendors to drive quality and contract compliance while participating in the negotiation process as needed.
• Fully engage with technology leadership and business partners to address business / customer needs through technology as appropriate. Employ business and technology acumen to translate technical details into business terms and vice versa, assure mutual understanding and agreement of technology objectives / deliverables by all affected constituencies. Foster strong working relationships across the organization and within technology to drive technology delivery strategy and goals.
• Provide oversight of technology delivery activities, ensuring schedule, scope, cost, and system performance targets / goals are met. Act as a single technology point of contact for business partners. Escalate, address, and communicate issues, as appropriate, with technology and business leaders to achieve timely resolution. Address and communicate impact of production incidents to ensure root cause is determined and permanent solutions are documented and implemented.
• Act as a change agent by maintaining up-to-date knowledge of industry advances and developments to be incorporated into and improve project life cycles, technology function, and business capabilities. Institutionalize process / service management and quality practices to drive efficiency and standards within the organization. Champion and contribute to continuous improvement best practices through rigorous gap analysis and solution ideation and implementation to increase effectiveness of the organization.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

About Our Company

We're a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration, and advisement as of 2024. With our team of more than 20,000 people in 20 countries, we advise, manage, and protect assets and income of more than 3.5 million individual, small business, and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager, and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments, and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions, and communities around the world.

The estimated base salary for this role is $180,200 - 240,000 a year. We have a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy. Your initial total compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and geographical work location. In addition, most of our roles are eligible for variable pay in the form of bonus, commissions, and / or long-term incentives depending on the role. We also have a competitive and comprehensive benefits program that supports all aspects of your health and well-being, including but not limited to vacation time, sick time, 401(k), and health, dental, and life insurances.

Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Full-time

Exempt

Technology