Overview

Job Title: Senior Manager – Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

• Own the platform engineering strategy and architecture roadmap, aligning cloud infrastructure, shared services, and modernization priorities with business and product goals.
• Lead the design and evolution of secure, resilient cloud-native platforms, including container orchestration, networking, identity, secrets management, and standardized environments.
• Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, infrastructure-as-code patterns, and automated guardrails for consistent provisioning and operation of platform services.
• Enable application, data, and AI/ML workloads through reusable platform capabilities, APIs, integration patterns, and scalable compute and storage services.
• Own CI/CD and release engineering capabilities, including automated testing, security checks, artifact management, deployment strategies, and rollback readiness.
• Provide technical leadership for critical incidents, architectural reviews, and complex engineering decisions; drive root-cause analysis and durable corrective actions.
• Lead delivery planning and governance across platform workstreams, managing priorities, dependencies, risks, and commitments against agreed business outcomes.
• Embed agile, DevOps, and SRE practices, including service ownership, observability, on-call readiness, incident response, and tested disaster recovery.
• Define and track service-level indicators and objectives, agreed SLAs, and engineering delivery metrics to improve reliability, deployment performance, and recovery times.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and FinOps practices; manage platform budgets and vendors to improve cost efficiency without compromising reliability.
• Partner with security and governance teams to embed access controls, vulnerability remediation, auditability, data protection, and compliance requirements into platform operations.
• Lead and scale multidisciplinary platform engineering teams spanning cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, and automation; develop engineering managers and technical leads.
• Build a high-performance, inclusive engineering culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and measurable outcomes.
• Own workforce planning, hiring, performance management, succession planning, and capability development aligned with the platform roadmap.
• Coach managers and engineers on technical judgment, execution discipline, stakeholder engagement, and career growth; delegate effectively while maintaining accountability.
• Partner with product teams, enterprise architects, security leaders, finance transformation stakeholders, and clients to translate business needs into platform priorities.
• Balance platform investment, delivery capacity, risk, and business value; align stakeholders on trade-offs, service expectations, and measurable outcomes.
• Support solutioning, proposals, and client discussions with platform architecture, delivery estimates, operating models, and cost considerations.
• Communicate roadmap progress, investment needs, service health, delivery risks, and business impact clearly to executive stakeholders.
• Manage the platform as an internal product, using developer feedback and adoption metrics to prioritize capabilities that reduce friction and accelerate delivery.
• Build self-service workflows, reusable infrastructure modules, service catalogs, and standardized delivery paths with clear documentation and onboarding.
• Measure platform value through adoption, developer satisfaction, onboarding time, delivery lead time, and reduced operational toil; enable secure analytics and AI use cases.

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE, including substantial architecture and delivery ownership.
• 5+ years of engineering people-management experience, with a demonstrated track record of leading multiple teams and developing engineering managers or technical leads.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP), including networking, identity, security, resilience, and cloud operating models.
• Strong expertise in cloud-native architecture, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), and automated environment provisioning.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, observability, and automation using relevant tools and languages (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Argo CD, OpenTelemetry, Python, or Go).
• Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and shared platform services; experience enabling data platforms and integration workloads.
• Experience with secure-by-design engineering, identity and access management, secrets management, software supply-chain security, and enterprise governance.
• Proven ability to deliver enterprise platform programs, manage cross-team dependencies, and establish effective execution and risk governance.
• Experience implementing DevOps and SRE practices, including SLOs, error budgets, incident management, post-incident reviews, and disaster recovery testing.
• Strong understanding of scalability, capacity planning, performance tuning, cloud cost optimization, budget ownership, and vendor management.
• Understanding of enterprise data and application needs; exposure to corporate finance processes (P2P, O2C, R2R, and FP&A) is preferred.
• Experience supporting finance transformation, analytics platforms, or other data-intensive enterprise products is highly desirable.
• Strong people leadership, organizational planning, and talent development skills, with the ability to lead through managers and technical leads.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including executive-level engagement and influence across business and technology teams.
• Ability to balance long-term platform strategy with pragmatic delivery, sound technical judgment, and hands-on engagement when needed.
• High ownership mindset focused on platform adoption, developer productivity, reliability, and measurable business outcomes.