Senior Associate Director IT Platform Engineering Lead
Senior Associate Director IT Platform Engineering Lead
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Job Description
As the Platform Engineering Lead you will be a critical leader responsible for building and managing our cloudnative platform infrastructure on AWS. You will ensure the platform is secure scalable and optimized to meet the demands of a fastpaced financial services environment.
Collaborating with software and data engineering security and product teams you will define and execute a strategic vision for platform engineering while driving operational excellence and innovation.
You Will:
- Strategic Leadership
- Develop and execute the platform engineering roadmap to support business growth and technological innovation.
- Ensure alignment between platform engineering goals and overall business objectives.
- Advocate for best practices in cloudnative development DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Platform Development & Management
- Oversee the design implementation and management of AWSbased infrastructure to support critical financial services applications.
- Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform.
- Ensure high availability scalability and resilience of the platform through architecture best practices.
- Provide a developer platform to software engineers based on the companys service catalogue and best practises
- Security & Compliance
- Embed security and compliance principles into platform design and operations ensuring adherence to industry regulations such GDPR SOC1 and SOC 2.
- Collaborate with security teams to implement advanced monitoring and alerting to support applications that demand high availability and resiliency
- Team Leadership & Development
- Build mentor and manage a highperforming platform engineering team.
- Foster a culture of innovation accountability and continuous learning.
- Define and monitor KPIs to measure team performance and platform reliability.
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- Partner with engineering data and product teams to align on infrastructure needs and deployment strategies.
- Act as a technical advisor to executive leadership providing insights into platform performance and innovation opportunities.
- Manage vendor relationships with AWS and other technology providers to optimize services and costs.
- Operational Excellence
- Drive automation in deployment pipelines monitoring and incident response.
- Implement and refine SRE practices including Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).
- Own platform cost management driving efficiency in cloud resource utilization.
- FinOps Initiatives
- Lead the adoption of FinOps principles to enhance visibility and accountability for cloud spending across teams.
- Implement and manage tools to monitor forecast and analyze cloud expenditures.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure costeffective resource utilization without compromising performance.
- Drive initiatives to optimize cloud usage including automated resource scaling workload rightsizing and identifying unused resources.
- Establish governance processes to align cloud spending with business priorities while promoting financial discipline.
#LIHybrid
Qualifications :
You Have:
- Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field
- Experience:
- 10 years of experience in platform engineering infrastructure or cloud architecture roles.
- Proven expertise in designing and managing AWS cloudnative architectures.
- Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries will be considered an advantage
- Technical Skills:
- Expert knowledge of core AWS services including EC2 Lambda RDS S3 FSX AWS Transfer Family CloudFront and Control Tower.
- Strong proficiency in DevOps tools like Terraform Kubernetes Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of security frameworks and tools like AWS IAM KMS Snyk AWS WAF and GuardDuty.
- Advanced understanding of services architecture serverless design and containerization.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog.
- Leadership Skills:
- Exceptional ability to lead platform engineering teams and influence stakeholders.
- Strong problemsolving and decisionmaking skills in complex highstakes environments.
- Proven track record of developing talent and building collaborative engineering cultures.
Additional Information :
Experience something Brilliantly Different with a career with MUFG Investor Services.
Who are we In a nutshell MUFG Investor Services is part of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group family and we partner with over 480 loyal global investment firms to provide them with administration asset services banking and fund financing.
Were in 14 global locations and provide an exceptional hub of Brilliantly Different talent to thrive.
MUFG is an equal opportunity employer.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
