Posting Description
About the Company:
Wealthspire is a leading wealth management, retirement advisory, and business management firm serving individuals, families, endowments, and institutions across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We provide a comprehensive platform that brings together wealth management, institutional consulting, business management, family office, and retirement plan advisory services-empowering clients to navigate complexity with clarity and confidence.
With over 1,200 employees across more than 40 offices, we deliver insights and solutions backed by deep research, technology, and decades of expertise. Our collective businesses create a unified ecosystem designed to meet clients wherever they are in their financial journey. Wealthspire is redefining the future of financial solutions through collaboration, scale, and a steadfast commitment to putting people first-our clients, our colleagues, and our communities.
For more information, visit www.wealthspire.com. Wealthspire Advisors LLC, Fiducient Advisors LLC, Wealthspire Retirement, LLC, dba Wealthspire Retirement Advisory, and certain other affiliates are separately registered investment advisers.
Position Overview:
The AVP, Software Engineering & DevOps owns software development, DevOps, and code delivery across the firm. This role is responsible for establishing engineering rigor, leading development execution, and ensuring code moves from concept through production reliably, securely, and repeatedly.
This role involves direct engineering and carrying out tasks that link development and infrastructure. Success depends on delivering production-ready solutions, advancing the development team's abilities, and minimizing manual or person-dependent delivery workflows.
Build a structured, scalable software engineering and DevOps function that connects development and infrastructure. Improve delivery speed and reliability. Consistently transform approved priorities into secure, maintainable production solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Software Development & Delivery
Own delivery across internally developed applications, integrations, automation, and supporting services
Convert approved priorities into actionable technical plans with defined scope, order, ownership, and delivery commitments
Lead solution build, code development, testing, release, and production stabilization
Review and contribute code, troubleshoot critical issues, and make pragmatic technical decisions when required
DevOps & Release Engineering
Own CI/CD, build and release automation, environment management, deployment controls, and production-readiness standards
Implement repeatable provisioning, configuration, artifact management, and secret-management practices
Reduce manual releases, environment drift, deployment failures, and reliance on individual employees or contractors
Continuously improving delivery speed, quality, control, and recoverability
Engineering Standards & Team Leadership
Set realistic guidelines for architecture, coding, source control, code review, automated testing, documentation, and technical debt
Guide and mentor developers with different experiences into a cohesive engineering team that follows consistent practices and maintains clear accountability
Define ownership for applications, repositories, environments, releases, and production support
Assess capability gaps and build the appropriate staffing model across employees, contractors, and strategic partners
Infrastructure, Security & Operations Partnership
Act as the operational link between development and Infrastructure, Security, Data, Enterprise Applications, Architecture, and Program Management
Ensure availability, performance, security, recoverability, supportability, and cost are addressed throughout the development lifecycle
Establish application observability through actionable logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and support procedures
Lead application incident response, root-cause analysis, and completion of corrective actions
Accountability
Speed, quality, and predictability of software delivery
Code quality, testing rigor, documentation, and maintainability
Reliability and efficiency of build, release, and deployment processes
Preparation for production, application monitoring, and incident resolution
Ability, responsibility, and output of the development team
What This Role Does Not Own
Business ideation, prioritization, or the enterprise opportunity pipeline
Underlying enterprise infrastructure, network operations, or cybersecurity policy and governance
Enterprise data strategy, data platform engineering, or business reporting outcomes
Endpoint engineering, application packaging, laptop security, out-of-box experience, or IT logistics
Leadership Profile
Practical leader with extensive software engineering and DevOps background
Strong builder and operator with a focus on execution, simplicity, and production outcomes
Established capability to direct developers with different experiences and elevate engineering maturity
Capability to examine code, identify delivery issues, and make well-informed architectural choices
Solid knowledge of cloud and Microsoft-focused enterprise environments
Effective collaborator across business, development, infrastructure, security, data, and program teams
Success Metrics
Predictable delivery of committed software outcomes
Increased deployment frequency and reduced lead time to production
Reduction in failed changes, rollbacks, manual release effort, and person-dependent processes
Advancement in application reliability, observability, and incident recovery time
Progress in code quality, automated testing, documentation, and production readiness
Improved skills and ownership within the development team
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Information Systems, or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience
8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, application development, or DevOps, including hands-on responsibility for production systems
3+ years of experience leading developers, engineering teams, or technical delivery functions
Proven capability to analyze, debug, and contribute production code using contemporary development frameworks and languages
Strong experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD, release automation, observability, and cloud-based application environments
Experience building or supporting AI-enabled applications and using AI-assisted software development tools
Solid knowledge of APIs, integrations, databases, application architecture, security, and production-support needs
Experience with Microsoft Azure, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or comparable cloud and development platforms
Experience delivering technology in financial services or another regulated environment preferred
Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across development, infrastructure, security, data, business, and executive partners
What We Offer:
Wealthspire Advisors is proud to offer a competitive salary, PTO & paid holidays, 401(k) with match, exclusive discount programs, health & wellness programs, and more. Our PeopleFirst culture focuses on building and nurturing lifelong relationships with our employees because, at the end of the day, we exist to be there for others.
The base salary range for this position is $120,000-$155,000. The base salary offered will be determined by factors including, but not limited to, experience, credentials, education, certifications, skill level required for the position, the scope of the position, and geographic location. Actual base salary offered will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.
Wealthspire and You... Better Together!
Wealthspire is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
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About the Company:
Wealthspire is a leading wealth management, retirement advisory, and business management firm serving individuals, families, endowments, and institutions across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We provide a comprehensive platform that brings together wealth management, institutional consulting, business management, family office, and retirement plan advisory services-empowering clients to navigate complexity with clarity and confidence.
With over 1,200 employees across more than 40 offices, we deliver insights and solutions backed by deep research, technology, and decades of expertise. Our collective businesses create a unified ecosystem designed to meet clients wherever they are in their financial journey. Wealthspire is redefining the future of financial solutions through collaboration, scale, and a steadfast commitment to putting people first-our clients, our colleagues, and our communities.
For more information, visit www.wealthspire.com. Wealthspire Advisors LLC, Fiducient Advisors LLC, Wealthspire Retirement, LLC, dba Wealthspire Retirement Advisory, and certain other affiliates are separately registered investment advisers.
Position Overview:
The AVP, Software Engineering & DevOps owns software development, DevOps, and code delivery across the firm. This role is responsible for establishing engineering rigor, leading development execution, and ensuring code moves from concept through production reliably, securely, and repeatedly.
This role involves direct engineering and carrying out tasks that link development and infrastructure. Success depends on delivering production-ready solutions, advancing the development team's abilities, and minimizing manual or person-dependent delivery workflows.
Build a structured, scalable software engineering and DevOps function that connects development and infrastructure. Improve delivery speed and reliability. Consistently transform approved priorities into secure, maintainable production solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Software Development & Delivery
Own delivery across internally developed applications, integrations, automation, and supporting services
Convert approved priorities into actionable technical plans with defined scope, order, ownership, and delivery commitments
Lead solution build, code development, testing, release, and production stabilization
Review and contribute code, troubleshoot critical issues, and make pragmatic technical decisions when required
DevOps & Release Engineering
Own CI/CD, build and release automation, environment management, deployment controls, and production-readiness standards
Implement repeatable provisioning, configuration, artifact management, and secret-management practices
Reduce manual releases, environment drift, deployment failures, and reliance on individual employees or contractors
Continuously improving delivery speed, quality, control, and recoverability
Engineering Standards & Team Leadership
Set realistic guidelines for architecture, coding, source control, code review, automated testing, documentation, and technical debt
Guide and mentor developers with different experiences into a cohesive engineering team that follows consistent practices and maintains clear accountability
Define ownership for applications, repositories, environments, releases, and production support
Assess capability gaps and build the appropriate staffing model across employees, contractors, and strategic partners
Infrastructure, Security & Operations Partnership
Act as the operational link between development and Infrastructure, Security, Data, Enterprise Applications, Architecture, and Program Management
Ensure availability, performance, security, recoverability, supportability, and cost are addressed throughout the development lifecycle
Establish application observability through actionable logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and support procedures
Lead application incident response, root-cause analysis, and completion of corrective actions
Accountability
Speed, quality, and predictability of software delivery
Code quality, testing rigor, documentation, and maintainability
Reliability and efficiency of build, release, and deployment processes
Preparation for production, application monitoring, and incident resolution
Ability, responsibility, and output of the development team
What This Role Does Not Own
Business ideation, prioritization, or the enterprise opportunity pipeline
Underlying enterprise infrastructure, network operations, or cybersecurity policy and governance
Enterprise data strategy, data platform engineering, or business reporting outcomes
Endpoint engineering, application packaging, laptop security, out-of-box experience, or IT logistics
Leadership Profile
Practical leader with extensive software engineering and DevOps background
Strong builder and operator with a focus on execution, simplicity, and production outcomes
Established capability to direct developers with different experiences and elevate engineering maturity
Capability to examine code, identify delivery issues, and make well-informed architectural choices
Solid knowledge of cloud and Microsoft-focused enterprise environments
Effective collaborator across business, development, infrastructure, security, data, and program teams
Success Metrics
Predictable delivery of committed software outcomes
Increased deployment frequency and reduced lead time to production
Reduction in failed changes, rollbacks, manual release effort, and person-dependent processes
Advancement in application reliability, observability, and incident recovery time
Progress in code quality, automated testing, documentation, and production readiness
Improved skills and ownership within the development team
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Information Systems, or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience
8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, application development, or DevOps, including hands-on responsibility for production systems
3+ years of experience leading developers, engineering teams, or technical delivery functions
Proven capability to analyze, debug, and contribute production code using contemporary development frameworks and languages
Strong experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD, release automation, observability, and cloud-based application environments
Experience building or supporting AI-enabled applications and using AI-assisted software development tools
Solid knowledge of APIs, integrations, databases, application architecture, security, and production-support needs
Experience with Microsoft Azure, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or comparable cloud and development platforms
Experience delivering technology in financial services or another regulated environment preferred
Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across development, infrastructure, security, data, business, and executive partners
What We Offer:
Wealthspire Advisors is proud to offer a competitive salary, PTO & paid holidays, 401(k) with match, exclusive discount programs, health & wellness programs, and more. Our PeopleFirst culture focuses on building and nurturing lifelong relationships with our employees because, at the end of the day, we exist to be there for others.
The base salary range for this position is $120,000-$155,000. The base salary offered will be determined by factors including, but not limited to, experience, credentials, education, certifications, skill level required for the position, the scope of the position, and geographic location. Actual base salary offered will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.
Wealthspire and You... Better Together!
Wealthspire is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
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