VP Engineering

The role

The VP, Partner Engineering will lead the technical vision and execution to scale partner-built and partner-delivered solutions. You will manage a global team of Partner Solution Architects to ensure architectural excellence and partner technical success.

What you will do

• Set the global Partner Engineering strategy and architecture standards.
• Lead co-innovation blueprints with hyperscalers, industry ISVs, and GSIs.
• Sponsor and govern reference architecture, connector strategy, and AI/data interop strategy.
• Create enterprise-grade integration frameworks and enforce architectural guardrails.
• Partner with Product and R&D for roadmap and innovation alignment.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a global team of Partner Solution Architects.
• Build a Partner Architecture Centre of Excellence.
• Establish performance-driven culture based on partner adoption and marketplace ARR.
• Drive GSI partnerships into factory-style delivery motions.
• Govern multi-party architecture risk, security, and deployment patterns.

Required qualifications

• Proven executive leadership building partner engineering teams within enterprise software ecosystems.
• Deep technical fluency in data platforms, AI/ML, analytics, cloud integration patterns, connectors, workflow systems and marketplace consumption architectures.
• Experience launching production-hardened joint solutions with hyperscalers and GSIs with measurable revenue and deployment outcomes.
• Ability to translate platform capability into partner-owned architectures that scale across customer estates.
• Practitioner’s mindset for governance of PoVs, partner certifications, deployment velocity, risk mitigation, and technical adoption KPIs.
• Extensive experience in senior partner engineering, sales engineering or ecosystem technical leadership within large-scale enterprise software or SaaS companies.
• Excellent experience of managing architect/engineering-focused partner teams, PSAs, and global technical enablement functions.
• Demonstrated success driving multi-cloud partner consumption ARR, joint solution launches, and co-sell acceleration.
• Executive communication credibility with partner CTO/CIO/VP engineering stakeholders and hyperscaler/GSI technical leaders.
• Comfort operating across legal, sales, product, security, presales, and partner delivery functions.
• Willingness to travel globally (>40%).

Benefits

• Competitive salary & Company bonus
• 25 days annual leave with option to buy up to 5 days and roll over up to 10
• National holidays plus birthday off
• Pension scheme with a company contribution of 6% (when you contribute 3%)
• Private Healthcare, including dental & optic cover
• Life Insurance and Income Protection
• Regularly bench-marked salary rates
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave
• Well-being days
• Volunteer Day off
• Work from Home Equipment
• Commuter, Tech and cycle to work schemes

About the company

Quantexa uses a Decision Intelligence platform to bring context to decisions. The company is driven by DATA values: Determination, Ambition, Teamwork, and Accountability.