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As the Senior Director of Engineering, you’ll lead multiple engineering teams responsible for critical capabilities such as identity and access management, shared services, runtime and infrastructure platforms, observability, reliability engineering, and foundational architecture patterns.
You will be accountable for technical direction, operational excellence, delivery predictability, and talent development across the MarketPlace engineering org. You’ll partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, CloudOps, and other engineering leaders.
This role is ideal for a leader who can operate at two levels at once:
Strategic: Define the vision, align the roadmap, drive architectural decisions, and ensure technical sustainability. Tactical: Deliver reliably, improve engineering efficiency, and raise the bar on reliability, security, and quality., * Drive the MarketPlace Engineering strategy and roadmap, aligned to business outcomes and product needs.
- Partner with Product to deliver platform capabilities in a sustainable and scalable manner while ensuring clear architectural foundations are established
- Establish and communicate platform priorities based on customer impact, risk reduction, cost efficiency, and developer productivity.
- Lead execution across multiple teams and programs with a focus on predictable delivery, high quality, and measurable outcomes.
- Build a culture of disciplined software engineering: strong planning, clear requirements, pragmatic architecture, and effective release management.
- Ensure high-quality platform APIs, service contracts, backward compatibility, and versioning strategies
- Own platform-wide reliability outcomes: availability, latency, error rates, and resilience patterns.
- Partner with SRE/CloudOps to improve incident response, postmortems, operational runbooks, and reliability engineering practices.
- Ensure services are designed with security-by-default, compliance alignment, and strong governance.
- Work closely with Security teams to implement best practices for secrets management, secure SDLC, vulnerability management, and identity models.
- Champion internal developer experience: self-service infrastructure, CI/CD modernization, test automation, and streamlined workflows.
- Reduce friction and cognitive load for product teams by building tooling, documentation, and platform abstractions that scale
- Drive architectural direction: service boundaries, data patterns, eventing, multi-tenancy models, and consistency across systems.
- Ensure long-term maintainability by managing technical debt and enabling modernization.
- Establish and enforce standards (observability, security posture, patterns, tech choices) without becoming a bureaucratic blocker.
- Lead, coach, and grow Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers, Staff+ Engineers, and technical leaders.
- Build a talent strategy: hiring, onboarding, retention, performance management, and succession planning.
- Create a culture of accountability, high trust, learning, and healthy engineering rigor.
- Partner with Product, Quality, UX/Design, Customer Success, Support, etc teams to ensure platform implementations are understood for customer/real-world impact or needs.
- Communicate clearly to executives and stakeholders: roadmap status, risk, tradeoffs, and technical strategy., Leads enterprise software engineering strategy, AI and machine learning adoption, cloud platform architecture, legacy modernization, and generative AI deployments. Oversees engineering managers and principal engineers, establishes governance and operational standards, mentors technical teams, and aligns technical roadmaps with executive business goals. The role also drives ethical AI practices, MLOps governance, scalable software delivery, organizational hiring strategies, and cross-functional technology transformation across healthcare systems. Top Skills: AgentforceAWSAzureCloud-Native ArchitectureEnterprise ArchitectureGCPGenerative AiLangchainMachine LearningMicroservicesMlopsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (Rag)Vertex Ai Capital One
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8 Days Ago Remote or Hybrid 286K-359K Annually Senior level 286K-359K Annually Senior level Fintech * Machine Learning * Payments * Software * Financial Services Leads and grows multiple software engineering teams responsible for customer-facing applications, microservices, and backend systems. Partners with product managers, mentors engineers, improves engineering practices, and drives full-stack solution delivery. Oversees scalable, resilient, and highly available architectures, AWS deployments, modernization of monolithic applications into microservices, innovation, and Agile collaboration. Top Skills: AgileAndroidAngularjsAWSChefCloud InfrastructureGoHadoopiOSJavaJSONMavenMicroservicesNode.jsNoSQLPerlPythonReactRelational DatabasesRestRubyXML, Cisco
Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience with 8+ years leading multi-team engineering organizations, preferably in the CPM/ERM industry.
- Demonstrated success leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational architecture teams in a modern SaaS/product company.
- Strong understanding of scalable distributed systems, cloud platforms, service design, and platform operating models.
- Experience driving engineering excellence: delivery, quality, reliability, security, and developer productivity.
- Proven ability to hire and grow high-performing engineering leaders and teams.
- Strong stakeholder management skills; able to align executives and teams on strategy, tradeoffs, and sequencing.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Experience with finance, enterprise SaaS, or highly regulated domains (SOX, SOC 2, FedRamp, GDPR).
- Prior OneStream or financial CPM Experience.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or large-scale platform modernization initiatives.
- Experience with multi-tenant architecture and enterprise identity patterns.
- Experience in high availability systems, and global scale operations.
- Strong technical judgment with a track record of pragmatic decisions and long-term architectural thinking.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Experienced Systems thinker who is able to see the whole platform ecosystem, not just individual services.
- High-accountability leader to set clear expectations and delivers measurable results.
- Exceptional “Builder of builders” proven to develop leaders and multiplies impact through people.
- Highly skilled and proven pragmatic technologist.
- Proven track record for building platform capabilities that make product teams and customers successful.
- Exceptional operationally mature to drive reliability, security, and scalability as first-class outcomes.
Benefits & conditions
Leads multiple engineering teams responsible for platform, infrastructure, identity, observability, reliability, and foundational architecture. Sets technical strategy, roadmap, standards, and architectural direction while ensuring predictable delivery, security, quality, scalability, and operational excellence. Partners with Product, Security, CloudOps, and other leaders; develops engineering directors, managers, and senior technical staff; and drives talent strategy, modernization, developer productivity, and executive communication. The summary above was generated by AI, * Transparency around corporate structure, salary, and benefits.
- Core value of customer success.
- Variety of project work (not industry-specific).
- Strong culture and camaraderie.
- Multiple training opportunities.
Benefits at OneStream
OneStream employees are passionate, hardworking individuals who go above and beyond to keep our customers happy and follow through on our mission statement. They consistently deliver the best and in turn, we make every effort to keep them cared for and happy. A sample of the benefits we provide are:
- Excellent Medical Plan.
- Dental & Vision Insurance.
- Life Insurance.
- Short & Long Term Disability.
- Vacation Time.
- Paid Holidays.
- Professional Development.
- Retirement Plan.
All candidates must be legally authorized to work for any company in the country where this position is located without sponsorship.
OneStream is an Equal Opportunity Employer., In-Office or Remote North Carolina, USA 286K-468K Annually Senior level 286K-468K Annually Senior level Cloud * Information Technology * Internet of Things * Professional Services * Software Leads multiple software development and architecture teams, setting technical strategy, optimizing SDLC processes, and ensuring secure, high-quality, scalable services. Oversees architecture, observability, availability, performance, and operational excellence for complex environments. Drives adoption of AI and automation to improve developer productivity, release velocity, and cost efficiency while partnering with service leaders and mentoring engineering executives. Top Skills: Ai-Driven Development ToolsAutomationCloud-Native ArchitectureDevsecopsDistributed SystemsPlatform ObservabilitySoftware Development Lifecycle (Sdlc)
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