Director, DevCon Platform Engineering
About The Position
The Director, DevCon Platform Engineering leads the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) team and drives product strategy, execution, and adoption. DevCon is the enterprise self-service platform for infrastructure provisioning, application onboarding, platform operations, and cloud automation. Its architecture includes a UI Portal, Automation APIs, and Workflow Engine, supported by Infrastructure as Code automation and other platform integrations. The Director owns the day-to-day operation of the DevCon team, balancing product strategy, engineering execution, stakeholder engagement, and team leadership. The role translates developer needs into a strategic platform roadmap and delivers measurable improvements to developer experience and engineering productivity. The Director fosters collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement, ensuring robust, secure, and scalable solutions. The role works with stakeholders across Global Technology and the business to align priorities, promote best practices, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience/certification.
- 8+ years of progressive software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience.
- 5+ years of engineering management experience leading technical teams and delivering enterprise-scale solutions.
- Proven experience owning and operating a developer platform, platform engineering function, or engineering product.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform or comparable technologies.
- Experience working with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal and event-driven architectures.
- Strong understanding of modern software development practices and full-stack application architectures.
- Deep knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and operational excellence.
- Strong technical product management and roadmap planning capabilities.
- Exceptional communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
Nice To Haves
- Graduate degree in a technical discipline.
- Experience leading Internal Developer Platform (IDP) initiatives with a focus on product strategy.
- Experience building self-service engineering platforms and developer portals.
- Experience with Python, TypeScript, React, FastAPI, Temporal, and modern cloud-native development patterns.
- Experience leading organizational transformation through platform engineering practices.
- Experience with AI-powered developer tooling and platform automation.
- Experience operating highly available enterprise platforms serving multiple engineering organizations.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team responsible for the Internal Developer Platform.
- Establish team objectives, priorities, operating rhythms, and delivery commitments.
- Drive engineering excellence through mentorship, coaching, hiring, talent development, and succession planning.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Remove organizational blockers and ensure successful execution of platform initiatives.
- Serve as product leader, partnering with engineering, cloud, security, infrastructure, and application teams to understand developer needs and platform opportunities.
- Define and manage the platform roadmap, prioritizing investments that improve developer experience, productivity, reliability, and operational maturity.
- Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform sustainability.
- Establish adoption metrics, success criteria, and feedback mechanisms to continually improve the platform.
- Provide technical leadership to the team and collaborating functions.
- Partner with platform architects to define technical direction and architectural standards.
- Ensure platform capabilities are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with enterprise technology strategy.
- Participate in architectural reviews and major technical decisions.
- Build strong relationships with engineering leaders, product teams, cloud organizations, and executive stakeholders.
- Communicate platform strategy, progress, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership.
- Advocate for developer experience and platform investments across the organization.
- Manage competing priorities while aligning stakeholders around shared outcomes.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Stock purchase plan
- Discounts at Marriott properties
- Commuter benefits
- Employee assistance plan
- Childcare discounts
- Medical coverage for full-time positions
- Dental coverage for full-time positions
- Vision coverage for full-time positions
- Health care flexible spending account for full-time positions
- Dependent care flexible spending account for full-time positions
- Life insurance for full-time positions
- Disability insurance for full-time positions
- Accident insurance for full-time positions
- Adoption expense reimbursements for full-time positions
- Paid parental leave for full-time positions
- Educational assistance for full-time positions
- Washington applicants: paid sick leave accrual, PTO accrual of 0.077 per hour worked, and eligibility for a minimum of 9 holidays annually.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
