Vice President of Engineering

Nashville, TN (Preferred) | Remote (U.S.) | Full-Time | Reports to CTO

The Role

Wealth Access is hiring a Vice President of Engineering to lead engineering execution across our application platform, data pipelines, reliability, and AI-enabled product initiatives. You’ll report to the CTO and own delivery, people management, and organizational structure across a .NET/C#, Python, SQL Server, AWS, and React stack that serves some of the largest banks and wealth management firms in the country. If you want to inherit a finished org, this isn’t the role. If you want to build one, it is. You’re energized by moving fast, making hard calls, and seeing your impact immediately.

This is an execution-focused leadership role. You’ll partner closely with the CTO on technical direction and platform modernization while owning engineering operating cadence, cross-team delivery, and execution accountability across the full engineering organization. Our team has grown from 2 to 20 engineers in two years across Platform, UX, and SRE, and we expect to grow another 50% over the next 12 to 18 months. The management layer, delivery systems, and engineering culture are being built right now — not inherited from someone else.

Wealth Access is a connected intelligence platform that integrates data from 50+ financial source systems into a unified client record, powering wealth management, digital banking, analytics, and AI-driven advisor experiences for leading financial institutions. We’re actively shipping an AI intelligence layer built on AWS Bedrock, and the engineering team needs a dedicated leader who can translate ambition into disciplined execution.

What You’ll Do

Engineering Leadership & Execution

Own engineering execution across backend, frontend, data pipeline, platform, and reliability workstreams — setting commitments, managing dependencies, and ensuring predictable, high-quality releases
Partner with Product, Program Management, and engineering leaders to manage trade-offs, sequencing, and client-facing delivery timelines
Establish delivery cadence metrics — velocity, cycle time, release frequency — and use them to continuously improve throughput and accountability
Serve as the primary execution leader for engineering, ensuring risks are surfaced early and teams stay aligned on priorities

People Leadership & Organizational Scaling

Directly manage engineering managers, team leads, staff engineers, and senior technical leaders across the organization
Strengthen the management layer through coaching, performance management, and clear expectations for leadership effectiveness
Lead hiring and org design as the company grows — adding management depth where it creates leverage without creating bureaucracy
Foster a culture of ownership, urgency, quality, and continuous improvement where engineers take pride in what they ship

Technical Partnership

Partner with the CTO on technical strategy, modernization priorities, and architectural execution
Bring enough technical depth to evaluate plans, challenge weak assumptions, and guide teams toward sound decisions
Reinforce strong engineering practices across code review, testing, CI/CD, release readiness, and technical debt management

AI Enablement

Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development practices across engineering — evaluating tools, setting guardrails for AI-generated code in a regulated environment, and coaching engineers on effective, responsible use
Measure productivity impact from AI tooling and drive continuous improvement in how teams leverage these capabilities
Partner with the CTO to ensure the engineering organization is equipped to support AI-enabled product development as that area expands

Cross-Functional Leadership

Represent engineering in executive planning and client-facing conversations where engineering commitments are business commitments
Partner with Client Success, Implementations, and Product to align engineering capacity with delivery realities and business priorities

Who You Are

Must-Have

8+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience leading engineering teams through managers in a B2B SaaS environment
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building systems where none exist yet — you’ve scaled a team through a growth inflection, not inherited a mature org
Proven success leading multi-team engineering execution across multiple concurrent workstreams, with a track record of improving delivery predictability and scaling organizations through growth
Deep technical proficiency across our core stack — .NET/C#, Python, SQL Server, AWS, and React. You’ve built and scaled production systems on this stack, can review code across the full stack, and can challenge technical decisions with credibility
Demonstrated experience with AI-assisted software development tools and practices — you’ve used tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Cursor to ship software and can coach a team on effective, responsible adoption
Strong people leadership skills — hiring, coaching, performance management, and developing engineers into technical leaders
Clear communicator who translates engineering complexity into concrete plans, risks, and decisions for non-technical stakeholders

Strong Preference

Experience with enterprise B2B SaaS platforms involving data integration, ETL/ELT pipelines, or complex system interoperability
Experience in financial services, fintech, wealthtech, banking technology, or another regulated industry
Familiarity with AI-enabled product development, including LLM-powered features, RAG architectures, or vector search in production environments
Nashville-based or willing to relocate is preferred — right person matters more than zip code, but all things equal we’ll take the Nashville candidate every time

Why Join Wealth Access

At Wealth Access, our mission is to help financial institutions turn fragmented information into clarity, empowering their teams to better serve and grow through deeper understanding. We are driven by a commitment to connect what matters — people, data, and purpose — so every relationship is built on trust. Our values — Clarity, Connection, Humanity, Progress, and Integrity — guide how we build, collaborate, and deliver for our clients. Join a team focused on meaningful impact, thoughtful innovation, and strengthening the human side of financial technology.

Compensation

Compensation includes a competitive base salary, performance-based bonus, and equity participation, along with comprehensive benefits: flexible PTO, company-funded HSA, 401(k) with match, and paid downtown Nashville parking. The final package will reflect experience, qualifications, and market conditions.

About Wealth Access

Wealth Access is the leading banking-integrated wealth platform that helps banks and wealth management firms deliver unified, intelligent client experiences. Financial institutions often face the challenge of fragmented, legacy systems that make it difficult to connect trust, brokerage, retail, and commercial banking data. Our platform solves this by integrating data into one secure, portable client record, making it accessible across the enterprise. This unified view powers wealth, digital banking, CRM, and analytics ecosystems — helping institutions accelerate digital transformation, improve advisor productivity, and drive growth in deposits and investments. Wealth Access partners with top financial institutions and technology providers to power millions of client interactions every month.

Vice President of Engineering - Nashville, TN (Preferred) Remote (US)