Vice President of Engineering

Career Area: Engineering

Occupation Group: Engineering Managers

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Vice President of Engineering earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $147,576

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $156,466

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Responsible for providing leadership in planning, establishing and directing all aspects of the company's engineering policies, objectives and initiatives based on product and profitability goals. Responsible for supplying and maintaining adequate resources for Engineering functions in the pursuit of the company's strategic goals and operational plans.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Vice President of Engineering is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Leadership: Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to lead or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Software Engineering: Working experience with the application of engineering to the development of software in a systematic method.
• Software Development: Software development is the process of computer programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications and frameworks resulting in a software product.
• Product Development: In business and engineering, new product development (NPD) covers the complete process of bringing a new product to market.
• Product Management: Product management is an organizational lifecycle function within a company dealing with the planning, forecasting, and production, or marketing of a product or products at all stages of the product lifecycle.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Vice President of Engineering that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• MongoDB: MongoDB is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program.
• Software Architecture: Software architecture refers to the high level structures of a software system, the discipline of creating such structures, and the documentation of these structures.
• Docker Software: Working experience of Docker Software. Docker is a computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization also known as containerization.
• Data Engineering: Working experience of Data Engineering, which includes gathering and collectiong of data, storing it, batch processing or real-time processing of data, and setting up access via e.g. an API.
• PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) with an emphasis on extensibility and standards compliance.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Internet of Things (IoT): The Internet of things (IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity which enables these objects to connect and exchange data.
• Team Management: Team management is the ability of an individual or an organization to administer and coordinate a group of individuals to perform a task.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Vice President Of Engineering
• Vice President Engineering
• Vice President, Engineering
• Vice President - Product Engineering
• Vice President Engineering, Intelligence Platform Engineering

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