Director of Platform Engineering — SaaS Transformation

Stibo DX, Inc.

Aarhus

Hybrid

DKK 1,200,000 - 1,800,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Stibo DX is seeking an experienced Director of Platform Engineering to lead a global, multi-platform organization driving the SaaS transformation and setting the standard for developer enablement. You will unite Cloud Platform, Print Platform, and Content Delivery teams to deliver reusable, self-service capabilities while supporting self-hosted and hybrid customers.

Reporting to the CTO and part of the Development Leadership Team, you will balance strategic direction with pragmatic migration

Qualifications

Proven leadership experience from platform engineering, cloud-native engineering, developer platforms, or a closely related area.
Experience leading multiple distributed engineering teams through organizational and technological change.
Experience with customer-facing SaaS products and SaaS-first delivery models.
Broad understanding of platform engineering, internal developer platforms, self-service, AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, APIs and gateways, observability, security, reliability, and cloud economics.
Experience modernizing an established software platform while supporting legacy, self-hosted, or hybrid customer environments.
Ability to strengthen adoption of shared platforms and improve autonomy for application teams.
Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to align across engineering, product, architecture, and operations.
Fluency in English, spoken and written.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop the distributed Cloud Platform, Print Platform, and Content Delivery teams.
Build a coherent platform-engineering organization with a shared mission, clear ownership, and strong execution.
Accelerate the SaaS transformation by translating strategic direction into platform capabilities, adoption paths, and measurable outcomes.
Provide standardized, reusable, and self-service capabilities that enable application teams to deploy and operate services independently.
Treat the platform as a product, with clear internal users, priorities, adoption measures, and feedback loops.
Establish clear boundaries between Platform Engineering, application teams, SRE, Operations, and Architecture.
Drive platform adoption with the other Development leaders while keeping application migration and operational ownership within the application domains.
Balance development of the target SaaS platform with pragmatic transition paths for self-hosted and hybrid customers.
Build a culture of trust, accountability, constructive challenge, continuous improvement, and company-first leadership.