Executive Director, Platform Governance & Strategy
Core
Executive leadership over Platform Engineering Governance, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Strategy, and Metrics & Reporting within a regulated financial clearing organization.
Role type
Executive Director, Platform Governance & Strategy
Builds
Mature SRE practices, cloud architectural standards, governance frameworks, and data-driven visibility into platform health and compliance.
Domain
Financial Services / Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Executive leadership of SRE/Cloud orgs, SRE practice scaling (SLOs/SLAs/Error Budgets), Cloud architecture strategy & governance, Product Management for FinOps/SecOps, Governance & compliance framework management, Metrics & reporting framework design, Cross-functional partnership with Program/Product Management, Team leadership & development, Agile/Scrum environment management
Preferred skills
Production change control process experience, Financial services industry experience, GRC tooling experience
Technologies
Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, Datadog, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ServiceNow, Archer
Responsibilities
Lead scaling and maturation of SRE practice including error budgets and incident response; Define and enforce reliability standards and on-call models; Serve as Product Manager for FinOps and SecOps domains; Establish and maintain governance frameworks for compliance and audit findings; Define and execute multi-year cloud architecture strategy; Own platform metrics and reporting function for health and cost efficiency; Lead and develop high-performing teams of engineering managers and ICs
Seniority
Executive Director, hands-on IC with team leadership