Summary
The Director of Engineering, Platform Services, leads Core Platform Services responsible for foundational infrastructure platforms used across the company. This director-of-managers role oversees roughly 30 engineers and program managers across multiple teams and reports to a Senior Director in Platform & Data. The role defines multi-year technical direction, drives enterprise-scale platform migrations, and balances innovation with operational stability, security, and cost efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders across multiple platform teams.
- Set and communicate a multi-year technical strategy aligned to business priorities.
- Own delivery of platform capabilities and govern production change for critical systems.
- Drive architectural decisions across infrastructure, developer services, observability, and automation.
- Lead major platform migration programs from legacy systems to modern platforms.
- Manage vendor relationships, technology contracts, and licensing optimization.
- Improve engineering practices including cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, and self-service developer tooling.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, or platform engineering roles.
- 5+ years leading managers and senior technical leaders in large, complex environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
- Proven success shaping and delivering multi-year technology modernization and platform migration strategies.
- Strong technical breadth across infrastructure domains (data, observability, developer tooling, middleware).
- Experience governing production systems in high-availability, high-stakes environments.
- Familiarity with compliance-sensitive operations (e.g., PCI DSS), enterprise developer platforms, and retail/e-commerce operational rhythms preferred.
