Job Description
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About Banyan Software
Banyan Software provides the best permanent home for successful enterprise software companies, their employees, and customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build, and grow great enterprise software businesses all over the world that have dominant positions in niche vertical markets. Banyan focuses on a buy-and-hold-for-life strategy for growing software companies that serve specialized vertical markets.
About Northwoods Consulting Partners (A Banyan Software Company)
Founded in 2003, Northwoods Consulting Partners is a stable, domain-specialized vertical software provider serving state and local Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies across the United States. The companys mission is to enable caseworkers to focus on More Peoplework. Less Paperwork.
The product suite is anchored by:
- Traverse: A cloud-native SaaS platform designed for casework, field visits, and documentation.
- Compass: An industry leading on-premise document management system.
The Opportunity
Northwoods is seeking an experienced VP of Engineering to join its executive team. The successful candidate will act as the senior Engineering leader, responsible for driving business growth through technology innovation, setting quality benchmarks, standardizing practices, and building a more durable Engineering organization.
This leader will oversee the consolidation and modernization of a bifurcated technology stack, ensuring excellence in security, operations, and modern software development practices and will work across the company to align the technology strategy with business objectives.
Key Responsibilities and Strategic Priorities
The VP of Engineering will serve as a strategic technology leader and visionary for Northwoods, driving the engineering organizations architecture, product roadmap, and operational excellence. This role requires deep technical leadership across various domains including AWS cloud infrastructure, Ruby and React-based SaaS development, and the application of emerging AI technologies coupled with an understanding of the complex data and compliance requirements of U.S. State Health and Human Services systems.
The VP of Engineering will be responsible for defining and executing a multi-year strategy focused on:
Strategy and Architectural Leadership
- Define a unifying engineering strategy and roadmap for managing the success of customers, leveraging Compass and Traverse while designing our next-generation offerings with an AI first mindset.
- Establish clear architectural governance and set consistent technical direction across the entire product portfolio.
Technology Modernization and Remediation
- Drive the evaluation and standardization of CI/CD practices and modern DevOps pipelines to enable scalable, efficient SaaS delivery.
- Lead the adoption and institutionalization of a GenAI-assisted approach to increase engineering throughput.
- Advance the use of GenAI and emerging technologies within the product to benefit customers and the next generation of innovation.
Organizational Development and Efficiency
- Evaluate and refine the engineering organization to ensure an effective structure, strong leadership, and a culture that fosters innovation, continuous skill development, and scalable growth.
- Implement continuous improvement in AWS operations, monitoring, services, cost profiles and core engineering processes.
- Set measurable engineering goals that track output, identify improvement opportunities, and drive accountability.
Security and Compliance
- Implement continuous improvement in the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC) while supporting compliance and industry standard practices.
- Oversee incident response, vulnerability management, and security posture.
- Lead Business Continuity (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DRP) readiness efforts.
Health and Human Services Expertise
- Align Northwoods products with state HHS regulations and case management needs.
- Lead interoperability efforts with systems like SACWIS, CCWIS, Medicaid, and SNAP/TANF.
- Maintain awareness of federal and state technology frameworks (ACF, CMS, NIEM, NC Child Welfare Data Framework).
Required Skills and Experience
- Extensive experience (10+ years) in senior engineering leadership roles, such as VP of Engineering, Director of Engineering, or similar.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, particularly the AWS ecosystem: EKS, EC2, Lambda, PostgreSQL, S3, and so on.
- Proven technical depth in the current modern stack: Ruby on Rails, React/TypeScript, and modern CI/CD.
- Experience in managing, maintaining, and modernizing C# / .NET Framework applications and complex installer/deployment tooling (MSI, WiX).
- Prior experience with security compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA) and implementing preventative security controls (SAST, SCA).
- Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change, adopt new technologies, such as Generative AI.
- 3-5 years of experience managing offshore teams
- 2-3 years of experience leveraging AI to support the SDLC process to improve team efficiency with working examples
- Working experience using Cursor, Microsoft Co-Pilot, GitHub or similar AI tools in coding practice with measurable results.
What we provide
- Medical (includes H.S.A. option with employer contribution), dental, and vision insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- Company paid basic life insurance
- 401(k) with 4% company match and immediate vesting
- Free financial education and consultation
- Wellness program that helps you earn lower premiums
- Robust EAP program that includes free therapy sessions, lifestyle coaching, legal/ID theft services, and more
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Up to $5,000 adoption fee reimbursement
- $500 wellness reimbursement after 60 days of employment
- Generous PTO policy and 10 company paid holidays
- Company paid cell phone plan
Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply?Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Northwoods, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Northwoods is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are excited to work with talented people, period. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national or ethnic origin, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital or civil status, political affiliation, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
Who is Northwoods?
Northwoods makes software solutions that improve the quality of the life of case managers and social workers in the Health and Human Services (HHS) field. Recognized as one of Columbustop places to work,working at Northwoods means being part of a team thats passionate about making an impact on the lives of HHS professionals and the families they serve.
We believe in creating a culture of inclusivity and accountability seeking to hire professional, passionate and driven individuals that believe in the values that we believe in:
- Curiosity Willing to test assumptions, courage to ask questions, and active listening.
- Community Helping and mentoring each other, celebrating diversity and acknowledging our team members contributions.
- Resourcefulness Willing to try and fail. Asking for help and trusting the expertise of our team.
- Stewardship Safeguarding Northwoods values, culture, mission, and resources.
We believe that our team members are all accountable adults, not only to themselves but to each other, and we treat them that way. Our team works incredibly hard and is proven through dedication to their craft and our mission.
Our Solutions
Our products are designed for state and county social care program areas, including child welfare, childcare, child support, economic assistance and adult & aging agencies. These solutions leverage technology to allow case workers and social workers to easily collect, store, manage, and share case content and data more efficiently. By simplifying processes, our customers can spend more time engaging with the families they serve, make better informed decisions and achieve better outcomes.
TraverseA SaaS solution that allows for easy, on-the-go access to case files, case work and interview forms and intelligent insights on case content and materials, which lead to better engagement and better outcomes.
CompassCompass solution is some of our longer standing software that supports multiple markets for both state and county customers. Our focus on reducing time wasted on paperwork and administrative burdens allows case workers to better serve families in need.
Case Aide Services - Our trusted team of experienced child welfare professionals becomes an extension of agency staff supporting them with administrative tasks such as referral and records requests, compiling documents for court, and document organization. Workers can focus on fostering healthier families without sacrificing their own well-being.