VP/Head of Engineering #2675

Position Summary:

Our partner is a large, established hospitality organization with more than 10,000 hotel rooms and 15,000 employees, embarking on a companywide digital transformation. Historically, customer-facing technology has been delivered through consulting partners and third-party platforms. We're building our internal digital product engineering capability from the ground up to own and evolve the next generation of customer experiences.

As the technical counterpart to a senior Product executive, this leader will establish the engineering vision, architecture, cloud strategy, AI-enabled development practices, and technical foundations that support multiple customer-facing digital platforms. This is a rare opportunity to build a modern product engineering organization inside a business with significant scale, established brands, and executive commitment.

There is no mature software engineering organization to inherit. The adecuado candidate combines the technical depth of a Principal Engineer with the leadership of a VP of Engineering, remaining hands-on with architecture, code reviews, prototyping, and engineering decisions while building the team, culture, and operating model from the ground up.

Experience and Education:

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, a related field, or an equivalent professional background.
- Proven experience building engineering organizations, digital products, or software platforms from the ground up within startup, scale-up, or enterprise transformation environments




- Principal or Staff-level technical depth designing complex distributed systems, modern software architectures, and customer-facing digital platforms
- Demonstrated success leading engineering organizations while remaining actively involved in architecture, code reviews, prototyping, and technical decision-making
- Experience integrating modern digital products with enterprise platforms, third-party systems, and cloud-native services
- Hands-on experience establishing engineering foundations, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security, and software delivery practices
- Practical experience incorporating AI-assisted development into engineering workflows while maintaining software quality, security, and delivery standards

Skills and Strengths:

- End-to-End Engineering
- Software Architecture
- AI-Native Engineering
- Product Architecture
- Product Engineering
- Enterprise Integration
- Platform Engineering
- CI/CD
- Cloud Architecture
- Engineering Standards
- Code Review
- Automated Testing
- Observability
- Third-Party Integrations
- Technical Hiring
- People Development
- Executive Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- TypeScript
- Open-Source Development

Primary Job Responsibilities:





- Build and lead the organization's internal product engineering capability, transitioning ownership from consulting partners to in-house teams
- Define the engineering vision, architecture, and technical roadmap supporting multiple customer-facing digital platforms
- Establish engineering standards, development practices, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, observability, and software delivery processes
- Make key architectural decisions across applications, integrations, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and enterprise systems
- Lead the technical transition of consultant-built applications, ensuring maintainability, scalability, and long-term ownership
- Remain hands-on through architecture reviews, technical mentoring, code reviews, prototyping, and resolution of complex engineering challenges
- Establish AI-assisted development practices that improve engineering productivity while maintaining quality and security
- Build and mentor a high-performing engineering organization with a focus on technical excellence, talent density, and long-term growth
- Partner with Product, Executive Leadership, and business stakeholders to align engineering investments with strategic business objectives
- Guide the integration of modern digital products with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, Oracle Opera, and other operational systems
- Define engineering governance, technical standards, and decision-making frameworks that enable scalable product development
- Foster a product engineering culture centered on ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement

📌 Head of Engineering (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Ranger Technical Resources
📍 Ciudad de México