Engineering leader | Multi-team platform and IAM | Director-track
Jayce Hall builds and runs the multi-team engineering organizations behind identity and platform systems.
He built his current org from 0 to 20 engineers and leads its teams through their managers. Open to Director and Senior EM roles, Utah or remote.
Jayce Hall is a Utah-based engineering leader who runs multi-team platform and identity and access management (IAM) teams. He has spent 27 years building enterprise platforms and is on the Director track.
His work has moved from payments-grade systems at Endurance International Group, to platform integration at Newfold Digital, to multi-team platform and IAM leadership at Verizon, where he built the engineering organization he now leads.
He partners with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and business leadership, presents to executives, and sets an identity-platform roadmap aligned to enterprise security and business objectives. He also leads AI adoption across his organization.
At Verizon he set up scalable hiring and training, brought in CI/CD and agile practices through organizational change, and took multiple production services from concept to launch in six months, with deployments 40% faster.
He founded Utah Open Source and OpenWest (about 2,000 attendees) and has spoken at YAPC, OSCON, and SaintCon.
Engineering Manager · –present
Leads multiple engineering teams through their managers (skip-level). Built the org from 0 to 20 hybrid onshore and offshore engineers, delivering enterprise IAM, notifications at a 99.9% SLA, workflow orchestration, and a data warehouse for Verizon’s API ecosystem.
Software Engineering Manager · –
Led platform strategy and the technical integration of 5 brand acquisitions, migrating millions of customers. Managed mission-critical orchestration for enterprise hosting. Improved uptime from 95% to 99.5% and cut incident response time by 60%.
Manager · –
Scaled enterprise billing and payments from $1M a month to $5M+ a day (150x) across 6 major brands under PCI DSS and SOX. Built the team from 0 to 12 and reached 9-sigma financial processing accuracy.
Jayce Hall is open to Director and Senior Engineering Manager roles leading multiple teams in platform, IAM, or payments-grade systems, in Utah or remote from Utah.