VP, Infrastructure Engineering and Operations
At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations. We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. If you want to work for a company that values your contributions and supports your growth, we would like to meet you.
Corient does not offer employment sponsorship. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.
Role Overview
The Global Head of Infrastructure Engineering & Operations is a senior technology leadership role responsible for building and operating Corient’s core infrastructure, cloud, data platform foundations, and reliability capabilities. This role owns the design, scalability, and resilience of the firm’s technology backbone and moves the organization from reactive operations to automation, engineered reliability, balancing speed, stability, and security across a complex, multi-platform environment. This role partners closely with the CTO, technology strategy, enterprise platforms, cybersecurity, reporting & analytics, and cross-functional business leaders to ensure infrastructure decisions translate into measurable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure Leadership
- Own the end-to-end strategy, design, and operation of Corient’s infrastructure, including cloud platforms, data platform foundations, as well as monitoring and reliability tooling.
- Ensure infrastructure is scalable, secure, observable, and resilient across growth and acquisition scenarios.
- Drive standardization where it accelerates scale, while allowing flexibility where business or regulatory realities require it.
Data Platform Engineering
- Provide senior leadership and oversight for data platform engineering, including data pipelines, data movement, and data platform foundations.
- Establish clear ownership boundaries between data platform engineering, analytics, and infrastructure to ensure accountability for data reliability and scalability.
- Closely partner with Data & Analytics leaders to support growth, M&A integration, and regulatory data requirements.
Cloud & Engineering Operations
- Lead cloud engineering, including architecture standards, security controls, access governance, FinOps, and long-term scalability.
- Oversee DevOps tooling, and automation to enable safe, repeatable deployments.
- Partner with enterprise platforms, data, and security teams to support integration and modernization initiatives.
Reliability, Observability & Infra Operations
- Establish and grow Corient’s reliability engineering functions, including observability, platform and data pipeline health monitoring, capacity management, and incident enablement.
- Ensure systems are observable end-to-end, with actionable signals that enable fast diagnosis and prevention of major incidents.
- Identify opportunities to automate processes.
- Develop and own incident response playbooks, escalation paths, and after-action reviews.
- Own disaster recovery and business continuity across infrastructure and data platforms.
Leadership & Operating Model
- Partner with the CTO, technology strategy, enterprise platforms, and business leaders to sequence infrastructure investments and tradeoffs.
- Ensure infrastructure decisions align with regulatory requirements, risk management standards, and audit expectations.
- Build, mentor, and lead high-performing cloud, data engineering, and SRE teams.
- Define clear ownership boundaries and operating models across engineering and operations functions.
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and calm execution under pressure.
- Translate technical outcomes into clear business impact for executive stakeholders.
Key Competencies
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to set clear long-term strategies that align goals of the organization and senior leadership
- Planning and Oversight: Proven to set clear and actionable plans to deliver on overall strategy in a structured and timely manner
- Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire teams towards ambitious outcomes
- Talent attraction: act as a talent magnet to recruit, and develop industry-leading talent
- Critical Thinking: Ability to analyze complex problems and identify clear and actionable pathways to resolution
- Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate strategy and performance metrics to stakeholders
- Collaboration: Strong ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Adaptability: Comfortable operating in a dynamic and high-growth environment with limited structure
Qualifications & Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure, data, cloud, or platform engineering, with significant leadership responsibility.
- Proven experience leading data engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure platforms, and reliability or SRE functions in complex, regulated environments.
- Strong background in cloud platforms (Azure preferred), enterprise infrastructure, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience designing operating models across multiple engineering disciplines (cloud, data, SRE).
- Demonstrated ability to scale infrastructure through growth and M&A while maintaining stability and security.
- Calm, credible leader with a track record of earning trust from senior engineers and executive stakeholders.
Physical Requirements
- This position requires the physical capabilities to work in an office environment, which may include prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.
- This position is required to work on site 5 days per week.
- This position requires up to 25+% travel, domestically and internationally
U.S. Eligibility Requirements
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Must be willing to submit a background investigation; any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.
- Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States. For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Corient will require proof of work authorization.
- Corient participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
- Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.
What You can Expect from Us
Our dedication to the Employee Experience at Corient is aimed at supporting, empowering, and inspiring our talented team through:
- 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching
- Four Medical Plan options that is generously subsidized by Corient
- Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance
- Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability
- Paid Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter & Transit FSA
- Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot
- Training Reimbursement
- Paid Professional Designations
- Giving back to the community - Volunteer days
Corient is one of the fastest-growing wealth management platforms in the United States. We serve more than 10,000 clients and manage over $100 billion of assets through offices located across the country. We combine a boutique's personal service, creativity and objective advice with the extensive resources and vast intellectual capital of an innovative industry leader to create a profoundly different wealth management experience for our clients.
Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy, and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be recruited and, if applicable, selected and employed without regard to sex, race, religion, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, ancestry, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law.
