VP, Engineering - Planning, Economics & Reserves Software Suite (Houston)

VP, Engineering - Planning, Economics & Reserves Software Suite

VP, Engineering - Planning, Economics & Reserves Software Suite

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This is a leadership opportunity for a senior engineering executive to shape the future of enterprise software in the global energy sector. Our client is a recognized innovator delivering advanced, cloud-first solutions that help operators improve efficiency, enhance decision-making, and achieve strategic growth.

About the Role You will take ownership of engineering direction and delivery for a portfolio of applications supporting strategic planning, asset economics, and reserves management within the upstream energy industry. This is a high-impact role reporting to the Chief Technology leader, overseeing global teams and steering the evolution of mission-critical SaaS platforms.

What You’ll Do Leadership & Vision

• Lead several engineering groups across backend, frontend, and data disciplines.
• Define and enforce best practices for Agile delivery, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps adoption, and modular architectures.
• Ensure products are reliable, scalable, and optimized for modern cloud environments.

Technical Direction

• Translate product goals into executable roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
• Make strategic architecture choices that enable long-term platform stability and innovation.
• Drive integration of artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and advanced data capabilities.

Industry Alignment

• Apply strong understanding of exploration and production economics, reserves classification standards, and asset lifecycle planning.
• Collaborate with commercial and product leaders to ensure features address real-world energy workflows.
• Utilize insights from competitive tools and market trends to differentiate offerings.

Team Building & Culture

• Recruit and develop senior engineering leaders with a focus on high performance and accountability.
• Promote continuous improvement, technical excellence, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Build globally distributed teams that can execute with speed and quality.

Cross-Company Collaboration

• Work closely with UX, product, commercial, and customer teams to align engineering outcomes with client needs.
• Act as an executive-level technical representative in strategic customer and partner discussions.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in executive or senior leadership roles.
• Track record of delivering cloud-native enterprise platforms at scale.
• Expertise in Agile methodologies, DevOps principles, and containerized application delivery.
• Experience integrating AI/ML into production systems.
• Ability to lead large-scale modernization programs.
• Proven capability to manage distributed global teams and balance innovation with operational excellence.
• Knowledge of upstream energy operations, reserves reporting, and petroleum economics.
• P&L ownership and budget management experience desirable.

Preferred

• Direct experience in software for energy planning, reserves management, or asset economics.
• Background in AI-driven forecasting and scenario modeling.

Additional Details

• Comprehensive background checks will be conducted for the selected candidate.
• Only applicants with current work authorization in the relevant hiring country will be considered; visa sponsorship is not available.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Oil and Gas

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