Senior Director, Autonomous Platform Engineering
About The Position
This is an exciting transformational leadership opportunity for a technology leader who is passionate about redefining how software is built, deployed, and supported through innovative technologies, Artificial Intelligence, automation, and modern platform engineering practices. If you're energized by building next-generation engineering capabilities and leading organizations through technology transformation, this is the role for you. The Senior Director, Autonomous Platform Engineering will define and execute the enterprise Platform Engineering strategy supporting both Consumer Products and Corporate Technology. Reporting to the Vice President, Digital Product Engineering & Enterprise Infrastructure, this leader will drive the evolution from traditional DevSecOps to an AI-enabled, autonomous engineering ecosystem that accelerates software delivery, improves developer productivity, strengthens operational excellence, and enables the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence throughout the software development lifecycle. This role is accountable for the strategy, architecture, engineering, operational support, and continuous evolution of enterprise engineering platforms. The successful candidate will ensure these platforms are not only designed and built to the highest standards but are also operated, supported, and continuously improved to provide secure, scalable, resilient, and reliable services for engineering teams worldwide. This leader will oversee global teams responsible for Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Application Security, and platform operations while managing strategic technology investments, vendor partnerships, and the enterprise platform roadmap.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (Master’s preferred) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent academic or professional experience.
- Progressive leadership experience managing enterprise Platform Engineering and DevSecOps organizations.
- Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams.
- Demonstrated success building modern cloud-native engineering platforms.
- Deep understanding of Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Application Security, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, and engineering automation.
- Experience implementing AI-enabled software development capabilities and autonomous engineering practices.
- Experience managing enterprise technology budgets and strategic vendor relationships.
- Strong executive communication and organizational transformation skills.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the enterprise Platform Engineering strategy supporting Consumer Products and Corporate Technology.
- Lead the evolution of engineering platforms that improve developer experience, platform consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Establish enterprise standards for platform architecture, engineering automation, and software delivery.
- Drive adoption of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), Infrastructure as Code, cloud platform engineering, Kubernetes, container platforms, release engineering, environment management, artifact repositories, secrets management, observability platforms, and platform networking.
- Build reusable engineering capabilities that enable product teams to deliver software securely and efficiently.
- Leadership, People Management, Budget & Vendor Management
Benefits
- healthcare coverage
- 401k matching
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
