SVP, Head of Agentic Engineering and Acceleration

Role Description

The SVP, Head of Agentic Engineering and Acceleration will lead the company's global transformation toward agentic software engineering and establish agentic development as a core enterprise capability.

• Build and lead a specialized global engineering organization responsible for delivering production-grade software through agentic capabilities.
• Establish the company-wide Agentic Delivery Lifecycle (ADLC) and accelerate adoption across the broader product and technology organization.
• Begin with approximately 10 to 15 highly skilled engineers, architects, platform specialists, and agentic-development leaders.
• Operate as an agentic-native engineering organization using approved agents, skills, workflows, and automated platforms.
• Serve as the proving ground for the company's future engineering model.
• Collaborate closely with various departments including Product, Engineering, and Information Security.

Qualifications

• Significant executive experience leading global software engineering, AI engineering, developer platform, engineering transformation, or comparable technology organizations.
• Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams across countries, cultures, time zones, and technology environments.
• Proven experience driving enterprise-scale adoption of new engineering technologies, development methods, operating models, and organizational practices.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, or scaling enterprise generative-AI or agentic-AI platforms and production capabilities.
• Deep understanding of modern software engineering, cloud platforms, developer experience, CI/CD, automated testing, source-code management, observability, security, and production operations.
• Strong knowledge of large language models, agent orchestration, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation, context and memory management, model routing, human oversight, MCP servers, model gateways, and enterprise APIs.
• Practical experience with agentic development technologies such as OpenAI Codex, Anthropic Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or comparable platforms.
• Strong understanding of AI security, data protection, identity and access management, secrets management, model governance, intellectual-property protection, and responsible-AI controls.
• Experience managing major technology investments, vendors, and global transformation programs; payments, fintech, financial services, or another highly regulated environment is strongly preferred.
• Strong executive communication and influencing skills.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience; an advanced degree is preferred.

Requirements

• Define and execute the multiyear strategy and roadmap for agentic product and engineering.
• Establish adoption objectives by engineering function, product domain, geography, technology stack, and maturity.
• Partner with global product and engineering leaders to embed agentic capabilities into delivery models.
• Identify and remove barriers to adoption.
• Establish executive governance and reporting covering adoption, investment, delivery outcomes, risk, cost, and realized business value.
• Build and lead an initial team of approximately 10 to 15 engineers, architects, platform specialists, and agentic-development leaders.
• Operate the team through an agentic-native model.
• Deliver high-priority enterprise software, reusable components, platform capabilities, and modernization initiatives.
• Own the design, implementation, governance, and continuous evolution of the company-wide ADLC.
• Embed agentic capabilities throughout various stages of software development.
• Define reusable patterns, control gates, certification, production-readiness standards, and risk-based requirements.
• Integrate the ADLC with enterprise source-code management and other platforms.
• Establish versioning, auditability, rollback, monitoring, incident-management, and lifecycle controls.
• Define the requirements and target architecture for enterprise-grade agentic development platforms.
• Lead adoption and integration of approved technologies.
• Provide secure, reliable, self-service access to approved models, tools, and services.
• Lead development of reusable enterprise agents, specialized skills, workflows, and orchestration capabilities.
• Establish an enterprise registry and standards for approved agents and skills.
• Develop secure MCP servers and integrations connecting models with enterprise applications.
• Establish governance for ownership, approval, production access, and operation of agents.
• Implement controls addressing data leakage, hallucination, and other risks.
• Define baselines, targets, dashboards, and executive reporting for productivity and quality.
• Measure adoption and performance by team, geography, domain, workflow, and maturity.

Benefits

• Competitive holiday allowance
• 401K Matching program
• Group Insurance Benefits
• Flexible working model
• Employee Assistance Program

Company Description

Nuvei is an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates collaboration and innovation and is committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. The team at Nuvei is comprised of a wealth of talent, skill, and ambition. We believe that employees are happiest when they’re empowered to be their true, authentic selves. So, please come as you are. We can’t wait to meet you.

Working Language: English (written and spoken) is the language used most of the time, as work colleagues, clients, and strategic suppliers are geographically dispersed.

Our recruitment process may use automated tools, including AI, to support application management and candidate shortlisting.