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TMT Insights · 4 days ago

Vice President of Delivery Engineering

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

TMT Insights is a professional services and software development company specializing in the media and entertainment industry. They are seeking a senior engineering leader to manage a 35-person engineering organization, responsible for delivering technology solutions across multiple media clients. The role requires strong operational rigor and process discipline to ensure predictable execution and quality outcomes in a dynamic client-driven environment.

SoftwareSoftware Engineering

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end delivery across multiple concurrent client programs

Ensure predictable execution across sprints, milestones, and releases

Identify delivery risks early and intervene decisively

Balance speed, quality, and realism in commitments

Reduce delivery surprises and late-stage escalations

Lead, develop and grow a ~35-person engineering organization

Experience managing onshore and offshore resources and matrixed teams

Manage engineering managers and senior technical leads

Structure teams into client- or delivery-aligned pods as needed

Allocate capacity across clients based on priority and risk

Partner with leadership on hiring, org design, and scaling

Operate a disciplined, fit-for-purpose delivery framework established collectively with leadership

Implement consistent operating cadence (planning, reviews, retrospectives, releases)

Track delivery metrics such as predictability, throughput, and quality

Use process to create resilience and clarity, not bureaucracy

Adapt plans quickly when reality changes while preserving credibility

Serve as the senior engineering point of accountability for delivery

Partner closely with Product, Client Services, and Leadership

Navigate changing client requirements without destabilizing teams

Make and communicate clear trade-offs under pressure

Represent engineering credibly with demanding enterprise client

Ensure consistency in deliverables, documentation and quality standards

Review and approve major technical and delivery trade-offs with adequate input from broader leadership team

Manage technical debt pragmatically in a client-driven environment

Ensure security, reliability, and scalability expectations are met

Qualification

Software engineering leadershipMediaStreaming experienceDigital media supply chainsCloud services AWSCloud services GCPCloud services AzureBackend development (Python)People managementStrategic planningTechnical specificationsCommunicationCross-functional collaboration

Required

10+ years in software engineering organizations

5+ years leading managers and multi-team engineering organizations

Direct experience in media, streaming, or digital content distribution

Hands-on exposure to digital media supply chains (ingest, metadata, QC, transcode, localization, packaging, delivery) is highly ideal

Experience delivering technology solutions across multiple enterprise clients simultaneously

Comfort operating in environments with contractual commitments and SLAs

Excellent communication skills and ease of working cross-functionally with other teams both technical and non-technical, including previous participation in people management, strategic planning, timeline creation, and creating technical specs as needed

Experience developing software with backend languages/frameworks in Python using Flask, Django, JavaScript specifically in building and supporting RESTful APIs using Django, Django REST Framework and React

Extensive understanding of web application best practices and Git development flow

Understanding of the full stack of the application and experience with HTML/CSS/JS

Understanding of cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure