Position Summary: Provides enterprise-level technical leadership and architectural direction for platform engineering across the core collections ecosystem, defining long-term strategies, standards, and scalable operating models for build, integration, data migration, and release management. Shapes cross-functional technology decisions spanning applications, data, security, and infrastructure, and drives the development of new platform capabilities to support organizational objectives. Acts as a recognized authority influencing multi-year transformation initiatives, including system modernization, vendor integration, and cloud adoption, while ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture and business outcomes.
Experience Requirements: - 12+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or systems architecture
- Demonstrated experience defining enterprise-level architecture, standards, and technical strategy
- Proven ability to lead large-scale, multi-system transformations (e.g., modernization, cloud migration, or vendor platform integration)
- Experience influencing executive stakeholders and cross-functional leadership
- Track record of introducing new technologies, methodologies, or engineering practices at scale
- Expert: Distributed systems architecture, platform engineering, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) ecosystems
- Expert: Cloud-native architecture, including definition and governance of cloud platform designs and operating models
- Advanced/Expert: Enterprise data migration strategy, integration patterns, and system interoperability across complex environments
- Expert: Definition and governance of engineering standards, architectural principles, and platform operating models
- Expert: Strategic problem decomposition and solution design across multiple domains, systems, and business functions
- Expert: Executive communication and organizational technical influence, including the ability to shape decisions at senior leadership levels
- Advanced/Expert: Definition of enterprise data platform architecture and integration strategies across database technologies, including Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Oracle Exadata, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Expert: Definition of enterprise migration strategies for legacy-to-cloud platform transformations, including governance of execution across programs
- Expert: Leadership of multi-stream, cross-functional technology initiatives with enterprise-wide impact
- Expert: Definition of platform implementation approaches, operating models, and governance frameworks across build, release, and environment management
- Expert: Definition of standards and governance models for system configuration and customization, including workflow design, rules management, role-based access controls, and change governance
- Expert: Definition of enterprise testing strategies and quality governance frameworks, including User Acceptance Testing (UAT) readiness and business validation models
- Expert: Definition of enterprise integration patterns and standards, including real-time application programming interfaces (APIs) and batch/Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processing
- Expert: Influence on executive stakeholders and definition of governance models across business and technology organizations
- Recognized authority: Platform engineering practices, shaping organizational standards and long-term technical direction
- Leader in innovation: Drives creation and adoption of new engineering methodologies, platform capabilities, and architectural patterns across the enterprise
- Strategic leader: Identifies and frames complex enterprise challenges and translates them into multi-stream initiatives and long-term technical roadmaps
Key Responsibilities (other duties may be assigned): Platform Strategy & Architecture (25%)- Define and evolve the enterprise platform engineering strategy, including standards for build, release, environment management, and integration patterns
- Establish architectural direction for core systems, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and alignment with long-term business and technology strategy
- Introduce and institutionalize new platform capabilities, tooling frameworks, and engineering practices
Enterprise Technical Leadership (20%)- Serve as a recognized subject matter expert and authority across platform engineering, influencing architectural decisions and technical direction across programs
- Lead resolution of the most complex, ambiguous technical challenges spanning multiple systems, disciplines, and teams
- Shape and govern cross-functional technical decisions across applications, data, security, and infrastructure
Transformation & Innovation (20%)- Drive large-scale transformation initiatives (e.g., core collections modernization, cloud migration, platform consolidation) with multi-year impact
- Identify emerging technology opportunities and define new approaches, methodologies, and standards for platform engineering
- Translate enterprise strategy into actionable platform initiatives and execution models
Delivery Oversight & Outcomes (15%)- Provide strategic oversight of platform delivery across build, release, integration, and data migration domains
- Ensure successful execution of critical milestones such as UAT readiness, go-live, and stabilization through governance and decision frameworks
- Remove systemic delivery blockers by redefining processes, operating models, or architecture
Engineering Excellence & Standards (10%)- Establish enterprise standards for CI/CD, automation, observability, reliability engineering, and platform reuse
- Define and enforce best practices for testing, deployment, and environment consistency
- Drive continuous improvement at the organizational level
Mentorship & Organizational Influence (10%)- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, raising the overall technical capability of the organization
- Act as a thought leader and advisor to engineering leadership and executive stakeholders
- Influence talent strategy, capability development, and technical career progression frameworks
Operates as a technical authority and enterprise-level individual contributor• Influences multiple teams, programs, and domains without direct reporting authority
• Provides direction to senior engineers, architects, and program leaders
• Accountable for enterprise-wide technical outcomes, not just team delivery
