We are seeking an accomplished Technical Director of Platform Solutions Engineering with extensive experience in designing, automating, and operating enterprise-grade platforms at scale. This role demands a visionary leader who combines hands-on technical depth with strategic oversight to drive modernization, resilience, and innovation across hybrid cloud and containerized environments. You will set the technical direction for platform engineering, champion automation-first principles, and ensure secure, compliant, and highly available systems for mission-critical workloads in a regulated financial services environment. You will lead initiatives to increase platform stability, maturity, and growth, ensuring predictable performance and operational excellence as adoption scales. A key responsibility will be defining and executing strategies for migrating workloads from virtual machines to containers, while providing developer-friendly tooling and abstractions that lower barriers to entry for application teams adopting Kubernetes. This includes curated Helm charts, GitOps-driven workflows, and self-service onboarding capabilities to accelerate adoption and reduce complexity. Additionally, you will establish repeatable patterns for platform delivery using GitOps principles and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), leveraging API-driven declarative services to enable agility and consistency across environments. Your vision will include building self-service automation frameworks that empower end users—from platform provisioning to application deployment—ensuring speed, security, and compliance without sacrificing developer experience.