Vice President of Technology
AARP Foundation

Vision: "A country free of poverty, where no older person feels vulnerable."

Mission: "AARP Foundation creates and advances effective solutions to reduce poverty for and with older adults."

AARP Foundation works for and with vulnerable people over 50 to end senior poverty and reduce financial hardship by building economic opportunity. The Foundation achieves this initiative through these main focus areas:

• Simplifying Access to Benefits
   
• Empowering Older Workers
   
• Maximizing Refunds and Tax Credits
   
• Building Strong Social Connections
   
• Fighting for Older Adults in the Courts
   
• Grantmaking

• In partnership with AARP CIO and IT, formulates and implements unique program IT strategy, ensuring alignment with AARP enterprise IT requirements and strategy. Advises executive and senior leadership on emerging trends. Maximizes technology return on investment by determining capital investment priorities, parameters, and risks.
   
• Establishes the ideal technology business operating models, ensuring compliance with corporate requirements, and ensures that current and planned technical architecture, investments and solutions are aligned with business unit and strategic objectives. Identifies opportunities to leverage technology to optimize processes and harmonize data across programs. Assesses potential impact and application on technology innovations.
   
• Builds strong relationships with internal groups within the organization and across the overall enterprise and develops a deep understanding of their issues, challenges, and opportunities to support effective execution.
   
• Defines and leads the organizational and program data strategy and oversees data integration and all aspects of data governance to ensure efficient processes and consistent data flows and alignment with AARP enterprise standards and requirements.
   
• Oversees technology operational budgets, plans and annual goals. Reviews, recommends, and oversees all technology services and software license agreements.
   
• Promotes a business first and customer centric approach. Fosters strong IT governance through adoption of software development standards, methodology development, change control processes and other operational standards as established by AARP. Directs the design, planning, implementation, and maintenance of the technology infrastructure in support of operations. Ensures the integrity, confidentiality and availability of relevant systems, applications, and data.
   
• Establishes metrics for monitoring and managing technology effectiveness. Establishes appropriate service levels. Defines, tracks, and communicates key performance indicators to inform success criteria and track results

• Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree in a technical field preferred.
   
• 10+ years of overall technology experience, including managing technology solution/application development teams.
   
• Demonstrated experience in successful execution of technology transformation projects.
   
• Knowledgeable about the Salesforce platform, standard functionality and use cases, object architecture, and development patterns.
   
• Experience managing the deployment of custom applications on the Salesforce platform.
   
• Experience with Software Development Life Cycle methodologies.
   
• Vendor selection and management/Professional services experience.
   
• Experience with SAAS and Cloud based technologies, especially AWS and Salesforce.
   
• Demonstrated experience in structure and/or large audience communication with an ability to effectively communicate technical issues to a broad audience.
   
• Technical implementation competence and direct experience to determine and lead appropriate software development, solutions, and capabilities with a strong understanding of project management principles.
   
• Certifications: AWS, Salesforce, Architecture Framework, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success in building a new team and organizational culture of aligning technology and data to support organizational goals.
   
• Demonstrated success in organizational technology transformation, including but not limited to governance, data architecture, information security, privacy, and change management.

Additional Requirements:

• Regular and reliable job attendance.
   
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
   
• Exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships.
   
• Independent judgement in evaluation options to make sound decisions.
   
• In office/open office environment with the ability to work effectively surrounded by moderate noise.

AARP will not sponsor an employment visa for this position at this time.

AARP observes Mondays and Fridays as telecommuting workdays, except for essential functions. Remote work and telecommuting can only be done within the United States and its territories.

AARP offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401(k); 100% company-funded pension plan; health, dental, and vision plans; life insurance; paid time off to include company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave; performance-based and peer-based recognition and tuition reimbursement.