Director - Software and Core Cloud Engineering

Key Skills: AWS Cloud, Databricks, Python, Golang, Snowflake, Data Engineering, Multi-Cloud Management, People Management, Customer Strategy

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead three to four engineering squads, develop senior technical talent and establish a high-performance engineering culture.
• Define and execute the multi-year roadmap for multi-cloud management, translating platform strategy into quarterly plans, OKRs and measurable outcomes.
• Own cloud governance capabilities including access management, entitlement controls, policy guardrails, account lifecycle and resource attribution.
• Drive cloud economics initiatives spanning cost attribution, unit economics, FinOps tooling, rightsizing automation and optimization feedback loops.
• Set engineering standards for reliable, secure and observable platform services, including SLO-based operations, operational reviews and blameless post-mortems.

Skills Required:

• 17 to 25 years of software and cloud engineering experience, including substantial engineering leadership experience at Director level or equivalent.
• Deep AWS Cloud engineering experience with the architectural depth to engage principal engineers on enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
• Strong background in Multi-Cloud Management, cloud governance, entitlement systems and distributed platform architecture.
• Proficiency in Golang and Python, with the ability to review production code, infrastructure changes and security-sensitive platform designs.
• Experience delivering Data Engineering platforms and working with Databricks and Snowflake in large-scale enterprise environments.

Good to Have:

• People Management experience across managers, principals and senior engineering teams.
• Customer Strategy experience involving platform consumers, product leadership and global technology stakeholders.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or an equivalent technical discipline.