The posting
Ministry Brands is looking for a Senior Vice President, Software Engineering to join our growing team!
Who we are
Ministry Brands is a leading provider of SaaS operational management systems, payments platforms, digital engagement tools and background screening solutions for faith-based, non-profit and for-profit organizations. We serve more than 95,000 customers as a trusted partner in digital transformation and enablement – advancing missions, driving efficiencies, and building engaged communities for more than four decades. The diverse and real-world experiences of our team members serving their communities makes us stronger together and enhances our ability to advance digital transformation for the greater good.
Available Location: Milton, GA
Hybrid Working: Team members are expected to come into the Alpharetta office as needed, based on business requirements and team collaboration needs. There is no fixed minimum number of in-office days; instead, attendance will be determined by project demands, meetings, and manager guidance. Any changes to your primary work location should follow the appropriate process as outlined in our handbook.
What You'll Do:
As the Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, you will be a key member of Ministry Brands' technology leadership team, responsible for the strategy, execution, and organizational effectiveness of our software engineering organization. Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, you will lead multiple engineering teams and leaders responsible for building, enhancing, and operating products that serve thousands of churches and ministries.
You will help shape the future of our technology platforms, architecture, engineering practices, and development organization. You will balance technical excellence with business outcomes, ensuring our teams can innovate quickly while delivering secure, reliable, scalable, and high-quality software to our customers.
Key Responsibilities:
Engineering Strategy & Leadership
- Provide strategic direction and executive leadership for the software engineering organization, aligning engineering strategy with company objectives, product strategy, and customer needs.
- Partner with the CTO and executive leadership to define and execute the company's technology strategy and long-term engineering roadmap.
- Establish a global engineering operating model that enables high-performing teams to move quickly, collaborate effectively, and deliver predictable results.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
Execution & Delivery
- Oversee the successful delivery of software initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring appropriate quality, scope, budget, and timeline management.
- Evolve the SDLC for AI-led development, enabling teams to increase speed and productivity while maintaining code quality, security, and reliability.
- Establish clear engineering goals, performance metrics, and operating rhythms that improve delivery predictability and organizational performance.
- Partner closely with Product Management, Design, Customer Success, and other business leaders to establish priorities and deliver against product roadmaps.
- Ensure engineering teams remain focused on the highest-value initiatives and effectively balance new development, maintenance, modernization, and technical debt.
Architecture & Technology
- Provide leadership and oversight for software architecture and technical strategy across Ministry Brands' products and platforms.
- Lead the development of a unified data model and data architecture that brings together disparate product and customer data, enabling AI-powered experiences, intelligent automation, and scalable analytics across the platform.
- Champion architectural principles including modularity, reusability, scalability, interoperability, maintainability, and security.
- Develop and execute strategies for modernizing legacy platforms and reducing technical debt while maintaining business continuity.
- Identify opportunities to responsibly leverage AI and other emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity and product capabilities.
Engineering Excellence
- Establish and continuously improve engineering standards, development methodologies, coding practices, testing strategies, and deployment processes.
- Drive adoption of modern software development and DevOps practices that enable teams to deliver high-quality software safely and efficiently.
- Establish appropriate measures for software quality, reliability, security, engineering productivity, and delivery performance.
- Promote automation and continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle.
- Ensure engineering practices support highly available, secure, scalable, and maintainable products.
Talent & Organization
- Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization through effective leadership, talent acquisition, retention, coaching, and succession planning.
- Establish clear career paths and development opportunities for engineers, managers, and engineering leaders.
- Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineering leaders and create a strong leadership pipeline for the organization.
- Establish performance expectations and foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Effectively lead and integrate global engineering teams and external development partners.
Financial & Operational Management
- Manage engineering operations, including organizational planning, budgeting, resource allocation, forecasting, and reporting.
- Optimize the mix of internal engineering resources, global teams, contractors, and technology partners to deliver the greatest business value.
- Ensure engineering investments are aligned with company priorities and deliver measurable business and customer outcomes.
- Establish effective governance and decision-making processes for major technical and engineering investments.
Customer & Market Focus
- Ensure engineering decisions are grounded in customer needs, market dynamics, and the evolving needs of churches and ministries.
- Partner with Product and other business leaders to translate customer and market insights into technology and product opportunities.
- Help ensure Ministry Brands' technology remains modern, competitive, and capable of supporting the evolving needs of the faith market.
Who You Are:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience leading software engineering organizations, including significant experience managing managers and senior engineering leaders.
- Proven experience leading engineering organizations through periods of growth, transformation, modernization, or organizational change.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute technology and engineering strategies that support business objectives.
- Passionate about developing people and building an inclusive, accountable, and high-performing engineering culture.
- Passion for using technology to help churches and non-profits more effectively accomplish their mission.
- Demonstrated expertise in AI, SaaS, subscription software, or multi-product technology organizations.
- Experience in the church, nonprofit, or faith-based technology market is a plus.
Physical Considerations:
- Ability to work in a general office environment
- Ability to handle extended periods of computer-based work, including telephone
- Ability to work flexible and long hours, as needed, including outside regular business hours and days
Travel Considerations:
- Domestic and/or international travel required, estimated up to 30%
Benefit offerings designed to promote a life of balance!
At Ministry Brands, we recognize that your career is just one important piece of your dynamic life. We offer a robust range of benefit offerings designed to cultivate a lifestyle of balance and personal success.
Robust healthcare options – Employees have several healthcare options to choose from in order to find what works best for them.
Flexible paid time off – There is no perfect, one size fits all balance between work and home. We provide flexible work schedules, PTO for vacation, and up to 80 hours of paid sick/safe leave. We also feature 11.5 days of fully paid holidays!
Invest in your future – Ministry Brands matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, dollar-for-dollar, up to 3%. Contribute 3%, and we add another 3%. It's well-earned money working toward your retirement from day one.
Paid parental leave – Adding a new child to the family is a big adjustment! We provide the time and income to allow parents to adjust to their new normal in the healthiest way possible.
Mental health support – Ministry Brands is a stigma free company with the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Associates are supported through an Employee Assistance Program which provides access to in-person or virtual counseling at no cost.
Professional development reimbursement – Ministry Brands aims to support your professional development and empower you to drive your career by providing financial assistance to our associates seeking to further their education and career.
Employee Recognition & Rewards - At Ministry Brands, we use Nectar to celebrate achievements and strengthen our culture of recognition. This social platform empowers employees to send meaningful kudos, award points redeemable for rewards, and highlight contributions that exemplify our values. Through Nectar, we foster engagement and appreciation while providing tangible ways to recognize great work.
Ministry Brands is committed to acknowledging and valuing our employee differences and to creating an environment in which every individual’s unique strengths and abilities are developed and valued. Our employees share in the responsibility for creating this environment and demonstrate mutual respect and acceptance in the workplace. We welcome everyone and are dedicated to creating a culture where all our employees have equal opportunity to be heard and reach their full potential.
Ministry Brands is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
