Platform Engineer Lead

Capital Group•San Antonio, TX

About The Position

“I can be myself at work.” You are more than a job title. We want you to feel comfortable doing great work and bringing your best, authentic self to everything you do. We value your talents, traditions, and uniqueness—and we’re committed to fostering a strong sense of belonging in a respectful workplace. We intentionally seek diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds, investing in a culture designed to celebrate differences. We believe that belonging leads to better outcomes and a stronger community of associates united by our mission. At Capital, we live our core values every day: Integrity, Client Focus, Diverse Perspectives, Long-Term Thinking, and Community. “I can influence my income.” You want to feel recognized at work. Your performance will be reviewed annually, and your compensation will be designed to motivate and reward the value that you provide. You’ll receive a competitive salary, bonuses and benefits. Your company-funded retirement contribution will factor in salary and variable pay, including bonuses. “I can lead a full life.” You bring unique goals and interests to your job and your life. Whether you’re raising a family, you’re passionate about where you volunteer, or you want to explore different career paths, we’ll give you the resources that can set you up for success. Enjoy generous time-away and health benefits from day one, with the opportunity for flexible work options Receive 2-for-1 matching gifts for your charitable contributions and the opportunity to secure annual grants for the organizations you love Access on-demand professional development resources that allow you to hone existing skills and learn new ones "I can succeed as a Lead Platform Engineer at Capital Group." As a senior individual contributor within the Banzai SDLC / DevOps team, you are first and foremost a software developer and technologist who builds, optimizes, and modernizes the toolchains that engineering teams depend on every day. You will design and deliver enterprise‑grade developer tooling—treating the SDLC as a product and developers as your primary consumers—while operating at the intersection of developer experience, platform engineering, and build automation. You will help evolve the core SDLC toolchain end‑to‑end: CI/CD pipeline orchestration, code‑quality and static‑analysis, artifact and package management, and the build‑automation frameworks that tie them together. You approach these systems as a solutions expert—architecting quality gates, artifact promotion strategies, dependency governance, and pipeline patterns that are fast, reliable, and self‑service. You will also help define and deliver standardized SDLC capabilities—including automation, security integration, observability, and AI‑assisted development—that reduce cognitive load while preserving flexibility for teams to innovate. These capabilities will be delivered through opinionated golden paths, reusable patterns, and clear ways of working that scale across business units. A core responsibility of this role is hands‑on adoption and enterprise enablement of AI‑assisted software development. You will actively use, evaluate, and push the boundaries of tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and similar AI development environments—integrating them into your own daily workflow first—and then harden and operationalize them as first‑class engineering capabilities. This includes building the enterprise controls, guardrails, and usage patterns required to safely adopt these tools at scale, while demonstrating fundamentally new ways of working that improve productivity, quality, and onboarding efficiency. This role is deeply hands‑on. You will lead through technical authority, working software, and solution design, partnering across Platform Engineering, Architecture, Security, and application teams to ensure solutions are intuitive, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards. "I am the person Capital Group is looking for." You are a developer at heart who happens to build platforms. You operate as a senior individual contributor (PE5), influencing platform direction, standards, and engineering practices through deep technical expertise rather than formal people management. You have built and optimized CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and developer toolchains—not just configured them. You understand build automation deeply (compilation, dependency resolution, artifact lifecycle, caching strategies) and have strong opinions about what makes a toolchain fast, reliable, and developer‑friendly. You have hands‑on solution‑level expertise with tools such as: Harness.io (pipeline orchestration, deployment strategies, governance policies) SonarQube (quality gates, SAST integration, technical‑debt management) Package and artifact management (Artifactory, Nexus, or similar; dependency governance and promotion workflows) You have experience building developer tooling, SDLC platforms, and DevOps capabilities that serve many teams and are operated as long‑lived platform products. You bring strong knowledge of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, GitOps, cloud‑native platforms, and automated governance. You are a practitioner of AI‑assisted development—you use tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot daily and have formed a clear point of view on how they change the way software is built. You have helped (or are ready to help) define enterprise‑ready patterns for these tools, including: Secure access and identity integration Data handling and prompt context boundaries Cost visibility and usage controls Auditing, logging, and observability Clear "approved ways of working" for developers You have a passion for toolchain optimization and modernization—you actively seek out friction in developer workflows and eliminate it through better automation, smarter defaults, and modern tooling. You are comfortable enabling new engineering ways of working—such as AI‑augmented design, implementation, and review—while maintaining Company's expectations for quality, security, and operational rigor. You partner effectively with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and SRE to balance speed, safety, and standardization. You communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders and can translate platform strategy into concrete developer outcomes. You are a continuous learner who actively experiments, evaluates emerging tools, and incorporates learnings into scalable platform capabilities.

Requirements

You are a developer at heart who happens to build platforms.
You operate as a senior individual contributor (PE5), influencing platform direction, standards, and engineering practices through deep technical expertise rather than formal people management.
You have built and optimized CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and developer toolchains—not just configured them.
You understand build automation deeply (compilation, dependency resolution, artifact lifecycle, caching strategies) and have strong opinions about what makes a toolchain fast, reliable, and developer‑friendly.
You have hands‑on solution‑level expertise with tools such as: Harness.io (pipeline orchestration, deployment strategies, governance policies) SonarQube (quality gates, SAST integration, technical‑debt management) Package and artifact management (Artifactory, Nexus, or similar; dependency governance and promotion workflows)
You have experience building developer tooling, SDLC platforms, and DevOps capabilities that serve many teams and are operated as long‑lived platform products.
You bring strong knowledge of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, GitOps, cloud‑native platforms, and automated governance.
You are a practitioner of AI‑assisted development—you use tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot daily and have formed a clear point of view on how they change the way software is built.
You have helped (or are ready to help) define enterprise‑ready patterns for these tools, including: Secure access and identity integration Data handling and prompt context boundaries Cost visibility and usage controls Auditing, logging, and observability Clear "approved ways of working" for developers
You have a passion for toolchain optimization and modernization—you actively seek out friction in developer workflows and eliminate it through better automation, smarter defaults, and modern tooling.
You are comfortable enabling new engineering ways of working—such as AI‑augmented design, implementation, and review—while maintaining Company's expectations for quality, security, and operational rigor.
You partner effectively with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and SRE to balance speed, safety, and standardization.
You communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders and can translate platform strategy into concrete developer outcomes.
You are a continuous learner who actively experiments, evaluates emerging tools, and incorporates learnings into scalable platform capabilities.
You hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles, with a strong foundation as a developer who builds and ships software.
Developer tooling and SDLC platforms, including shared services, pipelines, and self‑service automation
AI‑assisted development tools and practices (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) — as a daily practitioner, not only an evaluator
Building controls and guardrails into developer platforms rather than relying on manual process or policy
Cloud platforms and container orchestration (AWS preferred; Kubernetes and Docker)
Infrastructure as Code and automation (Terraform or equivalent)
Software development in TypeScript, Python, Java, or Go — you write production code, not just pipeline YAML
API and microservice design in distributed systems
DevOps and DevSecOps practices across the full SDLC
CI/CD pipeline design and orchestration (Harness.io preferred; GitHub Actions, or similar also valued)
Code quality and static analysis platforms (SonarQube, SonarCloud, or equivalent)
Artifact and package management (Sonatype Nexus, Artifactory, or cloud‑native registries; dependency governance and promotion strategies)
Build automation and tooling (Gradle, Maven, npm/yarn, MSBuild, or similar; reproducibility, and performance optimization)
Observability concepts including metrics, logs, traces, and open standards such as OpenTelemetry
Technical documentation, including platform standards, architectural designs, and developer‑facing guidance
A track record of modernizing and optimizing SDLC toolchains—replacing manual friction with automation, raising quality bars through better tooling, and institutionalizing new ways of working through well‑designed solutions.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver enterprise‑grade developer tooling—treating the SDLC as a product and developers as your primary consumers—while operating at the intersection of developer experience, platform engineering, and build automation.
Evolve the core SDLC toolchain end‑to‑end: CI/CD pipeline orchestration, code‑quality and static‑analysis, artifact and package management, and the build‑automation frameworks that tie them together.
Architect quality gates, artifact promotion strategies, dependency governance, and pipeline patterns that are fast, reliable, and self‑service.
Define and deliver standardized SDLC capabilities—including automation, security integration, observability, and AI‑assisted development—that reduce cognitive load while preserving flexibility for teams to innovate.
Hands‑on adoption and enterprise enablement of AI‑assisted software development.
Build the enterprise controls, guardrails, and usage patterns required to safely adopt these tools at scale, while demonstrating fundamentally new ways of working that improve productivity, quality, and onboarding efficiency.
Partner across Platform Engineering, Architecture, Security, and application teams to ensure solutions are intuitive, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards.