VP, Global Practices - Professional Services [Remote]

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a VP, Global Practices - Professional Services based in United States .

The VP, Global Practices - Professional Services will lead the technical and methodological foundation of a global professional services organization. This executive role oversees five practices spanning core insurance platforms, data, digital, technology and integration, and business consulting. The position is responsible for defining global technical standards, implementation methodologies, architecture principles, and the innovation roadmap. You will shape how complex enterprise solutions are delivered across regions, products, and strategic partner ecosystems. A major focus will be integrating AI, automation, and modern delivery approaches to improve implementation quality, speed, and efficiency. The role combines global strategy, technical leadership, talent development, strategic deal support, and executive stakeholder engagement. You will also serve as a senior external voice, engaging with customers, partners, analysts, and industry leaders on technical delivery and implementation excellence.

Accountabilities:

• Own and evolve global technical methodologies covering architecture standards, integration patterns, product-specific implementation approaches, design patterns, and engineering standards.
• Maintain and govern practice intellectual property, including toolkits, accelerators, reference architectures, and reusable implementation assets, while ensuring global accessibility and adoption.
• Establish and enforce a consistent engineering and technical quality bar across implementations, regions, and strategic partners.
• Partner with delivery assurance, program management, global delivery, and related teams to embed technical methodology into end-to-end delivery standards and scalable services.
• Define multi-year capability strategies across five global practices, aligning them with evolving products, delivery models, and AI-enabled implementation approaches.
• Lead the adoption of AI-accelerated methods such as intelligent automation, document ingestion, code generation, rapid prototyping, and agentic workflows within technical practices.
• Collaborate with product, platform, and AI engineering teams to ensure professional services capabilities remain aligned with and ahead of product roadmap requirements.
• Champion the productization of repeatable services solutions and maintain their technical quality in partnership with delivery and portfolio teams.
• Build and maintain a world-class global talent bench of architects, technical experts, methodologists, and practice leaders.
• Define technical career paths and leveling expectations while developing succession plans and identifying high-potential talent for cross-practice opportunities.
• Lead workforce planning across practices by anticipating capability and skill requirements 12–24 months ahead of business demand.
• Drive strong utilization and productivity across practices while assessing and managing the impact of AI on roles, responsibilities, and operating models.
• Serve as the senior technical advisor on strategic opportunities, supporting deal shaping, technical presales, complex proposals, and executive customer engagements.
• Provide technical escalation support for at-risk programs and mobilize the appropriate expertise to improve delivery outcomes.
• Establish technical enablement standards for strategic implementation partners and develop the tools, training, and reference materials needed to scale delivery quality.
• Represent the organization externally at executive customer briefings, partner summits, advisory councils, analyst engagements, and industry forums.
• Own global technical methodology, reference architectures, integration standards, practice IP, implementation quality standards, partner technical certification, technical career frameworks, and practice headcount planning.
• Influence regional delivery execution, program assurance, global delivery methodology, product strategy, AI tooling, and partner ecosystem priorities through cross-functional leadership.

Requirements:

• You bring 15+ years of experience in technology services, software implementation, or enterprise consulting, including significant leadership responsibility within a practice or capability organization.
• You have a proven track record leading global, multi-practice, or multi-disciplinary technical organizations at significant scale.
• You have deep experience implementing complex enterprise software, ideally within insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry.
• You have demonstrated success establishing technical methodologies, engineering rigor, architecture standards, and quality frameworks within cloud-based delivery environments.
• You have experience integrating AI and automation into professional services or technology delivery, including agentic tooling, code generation, document ingestion, and intelligent automation.
• You have experience operating within or alongside major systems integration and strategic technology partner ecosystems.
• You demonstrate strong strategy-setting capabilities and can translate market, technology, and product shifts into clear multi-year capability priorities.
• You have exceptional stakeholder influence and can build alignment across executives, regions, customers, partners, and technical organizations while maintaining an enterprise-wide perspective.
• You possess strong technical credibility with senior architects and engineers and can engage with technical leaders as a peer as well as an executive.
• You have demonstrated talent architecture and organizational transformation experience, including building future-ready leaders, evolving skills, and improving ways of working.
• You bring strong executive presence and communicate with clarity, confidence, and credibility across cultures, organizational levels, and external audiences.
• Experience with P&C insurance or another core-systems-driven regulated industry is strongly preferred.
• Previous experience as a CTO, Chief Architect, or VP of Engineering within a services or product organization is preferred.
• Experience building or scaling a global practice from an earlier-stage organization to enterprise scale is highly desirable.

Benefits:

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $232,000–$377,000, with actual compensation depending on experience, skills, education, training, location, and other factors.
• Eligible full-time employees and part-time employees working 30 or more hours per week receive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off is provided to support work-life balance.
• A company-sponsored retirement plan is available.
• Certain positions may be eligible for annual bonuses, commissions, and/or long-term incentive awards based on applicable factors, including company and individual performance.
• The role offers a remote work environment with the opportunity to collaborate across global regions and technical disciplines.
• The position provides significant exposure to enterprise technology, AI-enabled delivery, global implementation practices, and strategic partner ecosystems.
• The role offers opportunities to shape global methodology, develop senior technical talent, and influence large-scale transformation initiatives.

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