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 • • 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 • 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. • + more!  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