SVP, Engineering

🕒 June 17

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Hazelcast

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

🏢 Enterprise

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

Enterprise • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Hazelcast is a leading real-time data platform uniquely combining a fast data store and distributed compute engine into one system. It provides solutions for stream processing, event-driven architectures, and real-time AI/ML automation. The platform is well-suited for enterprise architectures and cloud-agnostic deployments, offering high performance, resilience, and scale. Hazelcast serves various industries such as financial services, e-commerce, and healthcare, helping organizations modernize their data architecture, improve payment processing, and enhance fraud detection. The company also integrates with Apache Kafka and Redis for improved data processing capabilities.

📋 Description

• 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. • Drive, own, and manage end-to-end engineering delivery against the product roadmap, utilizing agile methodologies. • Maintain and continuously elevate world-class standards for system quality, performance, security, and resilience across the entire platform. • Provide executive oversight for core technical domains while aggressively evaluating and integrating emerging technologies. • Manage the engineering budget, drive ROI on technology investments, and optimize resource allocation. • Steward Hazelcast’s open-source core with a commitment to transparency and stability. • Balance the needs of commercial customers with the expectations of a global open-source community. • Serve as a prominent voice and advocate for the company within the broader open-source and real-time data ecosystems. • Lead, motivate, and manage a highly distributed, global engineering team. • Instill a strong product-led, innovation-led ethos within the department. • Lead global headcount planning and build a robust leadership bench.

🎯 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. • 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. • 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. • 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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)