Vice President, Engineering, Outcomes

Itron operates at the intersection of technology and the Utilities & Energy sector, delivering advanced solutions that enable smarter energy management, grid modernization, and sustainable operations. This role will directly influence how we leverage cloud and AI technologies to create customer-centric, secure, and scalable platforms that power the future of energy. 

We are seeking a strategic engineering executive to lead our Outcomes engineering organization. As Vice President of Engineering, you will define the technical vision, scale high-performing teams, and drive innovation across complex, data-intensive platforms. Outcomes products are primarily comprised of software, both running in the cloud and at the edge, and include both integration with and development of new utility-focused intelligent endpoints. Expected to embed AI-driven design, automation, and engineering intelligence into our development lifecycle while fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement. 

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Guide and Develop Talent: Mentor and grow a world-class engineering organization, empowering teams to deliver customer-centric solutions with authenticity and accountability. 

• Define Technical Strategy: Define and execute cloud architecture strategies leveraging modern engineering practices, distributed systems, and secure-by-design concepts. 

• Deliver Innovative Solutions: Leveraging both Itron and third-party endpoints and networks, deliver solutions to our utility customers that address their business goals and meet their expectations in terms of reliability, accuracy, scale and security. 

• Embed AI Innovation: Operationalize AI-assisted design, coding, testing, and optimization to enhance velocity, quality, and operational intelligence. 

• Foster Collaborative Culture: Cultivate an environment of psychological safety, high trust, and agility, enabling teams to experiment, learn, and own outcomes. 

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Develop effective relationships with Outcomes Product Management and other internal teams, as well as across Itron Business Units, to ensure alignment and achieve measurable business results.  

• Performance Excellence: Establish and monitor KPIs for reliability, customer outcomes, and engineering productivity, driving continuous improvement. 

• Ensure Resilience and Security: Promote operational resilience and compliance across the platform ecosystem. 

Required Skills & Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field; master’s degree preferred. 

• 12+ years of progressive engineering responsibility, including managing large, distributed, technical teams. Proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise-grade cloud-based solutions running Microsoft Azure, AWS and other hyperscalers 

• Demonstrated success integrating AI into the software development lifecycle (e.g., AI-assisted coding, automated testing, intelligent monitoring, generative design tools). 

• Technical expertise in cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, embedded firmware, system-level APIs, and large-scale data solutions. 

• Proficiency in modern programming languages (.NET, Java, Python) and DevOps/CI/CD automation. 

• Strengths in strategic thinking, talent development, and inspiring high performance. 

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to align both internal and external stakeholders and influence outcomes. 

Preferred Skills & Experience 

• Experience with large-volume data ecosystems, real-time streaming, or event-driven architectures. 

• Familiarity with regulated or complex enterprise environments. 

• Advanced technical degree or executive-level engineering management experience.