VP, Business Technology Delivery

Vice President, Business Technology Delivery

Position Overview

Serve as a member of the IT leadership team, providing executive direction for technology modernization, strategic solution delivery, and enterprise initiatives.

This role requires a Transformation Leader with a strong technical foundation and a record of personally leading major modernization efforts that deliver measurable business results. The ideal candidate has progressed through engineering, architecture, application development, or a related technical discipline and combines technology depth with strategic vision and execution.

Partner with IT, Executive Operations Support, the Enterprise PMO, and business leaders to translate organizational priorities into coordinated plans and measurable outcomes. Establish a compelling technology vision, modernize legacy applications and platforms, and guide the adoption of cloud technologies and emerging AI capabilities.

Success requires moving quickly in a rapidly changing environment while maintaining sound judgment, clear accountability, and appropriate controls.

Principal Accountabilities:

Demonstrate service, integrity, leadership, teamwork, accountability, and passion in interactions with customers, employees, business partners, and vendors.

• Technology Vision and Strategy: Establish and communicate a technology vision that supports business priorities. Translate that vision into actionable roadmaps, investment recommendations, and delivery plans.
• Enterprise Transformation: Personally lead major modernization initiatives, establishing clear ownership and measurable outcomes tied to operational performance, customer experience, efficiency, scalability, and business value.
• Legacy Modernization: Guide the transformation of aging applications and platforms into modern, cloud-based environments. Evaluate migration, replacement, integration, and retirement options while managing dependencies and business continuity.
• Technical Leadership: Apply technical judgment to architecture, application development, integration, platform, and infrastructure decisions. Work closely with technical leaders to evaluate trade-offs and deliver secure, reliable, scalable solutions.
• Enterprise Partnership: Collaborate with Executive Operations Support, the Enterprise PMO, business leaders, and IT leadership to establish integrated priorities, governance, resources, and accountability.
• End-to-End Delivery: Oversee the systems development lifecycle, including planning, design, development, testing, implementation, transition to ongoing support, and continuous improvement.
• Execution and Accountability: Drive progress across cross-functional and matrixed teams. Set clear expectations, resolve barriers, manage dependencies, and make timely decisions as priorities evolve.
• Delivery Performance: Establish consistent practices and performance measures that improve transparency and ensure initiatives meet expectations for quality, cost, schedule, operational readiness, and business value.
• Innovation and AI: Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities, for practical business applications. Guide adoption based on value, technical feasibility, security, and organizational readiness.
• Risk and Resource Management: Oversee scope, budgets, staffing, delivery risks, and vendor commitments while supporting compliance, audit readiness, and enterprise governance.
• People Leadership: Select, coach, develop, and retain technology leaders and team members. Build a culture of ownership, adaptability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Strategic Relationships: Maintain effective partnerships with executives, business stakeholders, IT leaders, vendors, and service providers to strengthen delivery and achieve intended investment outcomes.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Demonstrated success personally leading significant technology transformations with measurable business results.
• Strong technical career foundation in engineering, architecture, application development, or a related IT discipline. Experience must extend beyond project or program management.
• Proven experience modernizing legacy applications and platforms, including migration to cloud-based environments.
• Ability to establish a technology vision, develop the supporting strategy, and lead execution.
• Understanding of emerging AI capabilities and the judgment to assess their practical value and implementation requirements.
• Experience leading technology teams and influencing business and technical stakeholders across a complex organization.
• Ability to move quickly, make decisions with incomplete information, and maintain accountability as priorities change.
• Insurance industry experience strongly preferred. Experience in agriculture or another complex, regulated industry will also be considered.
• Startup, high-growth, or rapid transformation experience is a plus, particularly where it demonstrates adaptability, resourcefulness, and speed of execution.
• Strong executive communication, relationship-building, analytical, and problem-solving skills.