Independence Pet Group
Employee Benefits and Technology Leadership
- Scope
- Scale
- Stack
- AWS / Java / React · Azure / C#
End-to-end technology leadership for IPG's employee benefits line of business, owning roadmap, architecture, delivery, and day-to-day operations across a team of 30 developers, stakeholders in Ops, Sales, Finance, and Leadership, and two major cloud stacks.
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At Independence Pet Group, we lead technology for the employee benefits line of business by directly supporting everything from staffing and managing engineering teams, to designing new systems, to packaging it all for stakeholders. We own the product roadmap in partnership with business leaders, set architectural direction across stacks, and run delivery for a team of 30 developers. Stakeholders span operations, sales, finance, and executive leadership, requiring continual translation between commercial priorities and technical execution so the roadmap delivers what the business actually needs.
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On the delivery side, the scope is deliberately full-spectrum: new development and integrations with external partners and internal software teams, plus the unglamorous work that keeps a line of business alive, including handling support requests, responding to incidents, bringing the site back up when it crashes, and owning the deployment pipelines that ship it all. This runs across two core stacks: AWS with Java and Azure with C#. We provide both technical consulting, and have deployed a lead developer from our team onto one of the projects to keep leadership decisions close to the code.
- Managing multiple development teams
- Roadmap, architecture & delivery
- Interface with Ops, Sales, Finance, and ELT
- New dev, integrations, support & incidents