Executive Director, Platform Architecture
Core
Leads OCC's Platform Architecture team to define technical strategy and standards for cloud, on-premises, networking, compute, storage, and observability domains, ensuring resilient, scalable infrastructure for critical market functions.
Role type
Senior IC/Lead Platform Architect (People Leadership)
Builds
Enterprise-wide platform standards, reference architectures, and infrastructure patterns for cloud adoption and modernization.
Domain
Financial Services / Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Infrastructure architecture strategy, AWS services (VPC, EC2, EKS, MSK, S3, IAM, KMS, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway), Kubernetes (cluster architecture, multi-tenancy, CNI), Apache Kafka, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux), Hybrid connectivity, Disaster recovery, Capacity planning, Observability standards, Incident postmortems, Team leadership, Strategic planning, Budgeting, Vendor management, Regulatory compliance (Regulation SCI, CPMI-IOSCO)
Preferred skills
Financial services experience (SIFMU, clearinghouse, exchange, bank), Low-latency/high-performance computing patterns, Apache Flink, Enterprise observability platforms (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk), AWS Solutions Architect certification, TOGAF
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Terraform, ArgoCD, Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Nexus, Artifactory
Responsibilities
Lead and develop a team of principal architects; Define and govern platform architecture standards; Drive infrastructure modernization and cloud strategy; Partner with Application Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Operations; Ensure operational resilience and disaster recovery; Manage team priorities and delivery against architecture commitments.
Seniority
Executive Director, hands-on leadership