About this role
Vice President of IT
Who We Are:
GEODIS specializes in unlocking business value in a complex world, ensuring seamless movement of goods worldwide. As a global third-party logistics provider (3PL), we power A Better Way to Deliver for the world's top brands and manufacturers. Fuel your career with GEODIS and discover endless growth opportunities.
Your role on the team:
Strategy and leadership
• Define and own the Americas IT development roadmap in alignment with business strategy and GEODIS global technology direction
• Advise executive leadership on technology investments, trade-offs, and risk
• Lead a pragmatic modernization strategy: decide what to retire, replatform, wrap with APIs, or rebuild, and sequence the work to avoid disrupting live operations
Delivery and execution
• Oversee the full software development lifecycle across WMS, TMS, order management, yard and dock systems, billing, and customer portals
• Drive delivery of customer onboarding and integrations, including EDI, API, and event-based connectivity with shippers, carriers, marketplaces, and ERPs
• Mature engineering practices: Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, observability, and release management suited to 24/7 operations
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with minimal operational impact
Legacy and modern platform management
• Maintain reliability and supportability of legacy and mainframe-era applications while reducing technical debt and key-person risk
• Lead migration to cloud-native, containerized, API-first architectures, including hybrid and phased coexistence models
• Establish integration patterns (APIs, messaging, EDI translation) that allow old and new systems to interoperate cleanly
• Guide adoption of data, analytics, and AI/ML capabilities such as visibility, forecasting, slotting, and automation
People and organization
• Lead, mentor, and develop directors, managers, and engineers across multiple teams, including onshore, offshore, and vendor partners
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning, and upskill teams with legacy expertise on modern tooling
• Own hiring, succession planning, performance management, and org design
Architecture, security, and governance
• Set architectural standards for scalability, resilience, and maintainability, aligned with global architecture governance
• Partner with Information Security to embed secure development and meet customer, regulatory, and compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, C-TPAT, customer-specific audits)
• Own platform reliability, disaster recovery, and business continuity for operations that cannot go down
Financial and vendor management
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• Own the development budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation
• Manage software developers, vendors, system integrators, contractors and licensing
• Report on KPIs such as delivery velocity, quality, uptime, integration cycle time, and cost efficiency
What you need:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 12+ years of progressive experience in software development or IT, including 5+ years leading large engineering organizations (multiple teams, 50+ people)
• Demonstrated experience running a hybrid estate of legacy and modern workloads and leading phased modernization
• Strong background with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), microservices, APIs, and DevOps practices
• Experience delivering enterprise systems in a 24/7, operations-critical environment
• Track record managing budgets, vendors, offshore/onshore models, and cross-functional initiatives
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage executives, operations leaders, and customers
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What you gain from joining our team:
• Access wages early with the Rain financial wellness app.
• Free telemedical access to doctors and therapists through FirstStop Health available first day of employment!
• Health, dental, and vision insurance after 30 days of employment
• 401k match
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Access to career development, employee resource groups, and mentorship programs
• Employee discounts
• Access to employee perks like fitness class discounts and free access to a relaxation and meditation app
• Free financial wellness programs
• Daycare discount program
• Opportunities to volunteer and give back to your community.
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Join Our Team!
• Visit our website at workatGEODIS.com and chat with our virtual recruiter, Sophie, to fast-track your way to an interview.
OR
• Text DELIVER to 88300 to Apply1