At a glance
- Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Brentwood, New York+1 more: Tennessee
- Posted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Visa sponsorship
- GEODIS sponsorsFrom recent H-1B filings
- Company size
- Enterprise (10K+)
- Industry
- Transportation
About the role
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
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