Sr.Director, Platform Engineering

Kyriba Corp.; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 531,000 - 672,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyriba Corp. is seeking a Sr. Director of Core Platform Engineering in Warsaw, blending leadership with hands-on platform modernization. You will guide a multi-squad team to transform core infrastructure into scalable platform services that support treasury and financial software applications with reliability.

The role emphasizes API-first design, event-driven workflows, and AI enablement, while fostering internal developer tools and self-service capabilities. Hybrid work in Poland is offered.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading Platform, Distributed Systems, or AI Engineering orgs for large-scale enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Experience in event-driven architectures (Kafka), API design, and high-throughput data processing.
• Hands-on modernization of monoliths to cloud-native microservices without disrupting business continuity.
• Ability to manage internal developer tools as products and balance debt with delivery.
• Knowledge of AI/ML infrastructure, agentic workflows, and vector storage solutions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end design and lifecycle management of platform microservices and shared UI libraries.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Cloud teams to align deliverables with cloud-native best practices.
• Establish incident management, observability, CD pipelines, and capacity planning across domains.
• Drive platform product management with feedback loops to boost developer adoption and satisfaction.
• Collaborate with Product, Security, and Customer Success to align milestones with business objectives.

Skills

Platform Leadership

Architecture Expertise

Legacy Modernization

Product Mindset

AI & Automation Integration

Scale & Leadership Experience

Education & Technical Foundation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or related

Tools

Kafka

API design

Workflow engines

Distributed databases

Kubernetes

Service mesh

Job description

About Us

Kyriba is a global fintech leader empowering CFOs and finance teams with cloud-based treasury, payments, risk management and working capital solutions. We serve 3,000+ customers worldwide, managing $15 trillion in payments annually and helping businesses optimize liquidity performance across the enterprise. We're on a mission to become the most sought-after cloud technology company globally. We think big, innovate relentlessly, and challenge the status quo every day. If you are a problem-solver who's ready to push boundaries and achieve more than you thought possible-you'll find an exceptional career within an extraordinary business.

Role Overview

Location: Warsaw (hybrid)
Type of contract: UoP

As Sr. Director of Core Platform Engineering, you will be the key executive engineering leader responsible for defining, architecting, and building Kyriba's modern platform ecosystem. Reporting to Senior Engineering Leadership, you will lead a world-class team of Software Engineers, Platform Engineers, System Architects, and Engineering Managers based in Warsaw, Poland. Your mission is to spearhead the structural platformization of Kyriba's core infrastructure. You will establish and execute a cohesive engineering strategy that transforms shared applicative capabilities, centralized data pipelines, and AI enablement tooling into reusable, highly scalable platform services. By managing internal platform capabilities with a product mindset, you will empower autonomous, cross-functional product squads to build, deploy, and scale financial software applications safely, rapidly, and with exceptional reliability.

Strategic SaaS Modernization & Architecture Roadmap

• Monolith Deconstruction & Microservices Architecture: Systematically decouple core domain logic from legacy monolithic engines into domain-driven microservices. Establish strict API boundaries, standardized domain models, and containerized deployment pipelines using Kubernetes and modern service mesh technologies.
• Real-Time Event-Driven Architecture: Transition core financial transaction workflows from overnight batch processing to real-time event streaming powered by Apache Kafka and event-driven microservices. Enable immediate cash visibility, continuous risk calculations, and real-time payment status tracking.
• AI & Agentic Workflow Enablement: Construct the underlying platform infrastructure required to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI workflows, predictive cash forecasting models, and vector stores into the product suite, ensuring robust auditability and low-latency execution.
• Internal Developer Platform (IDP) & Self-Service Infrastructure: Build an intuitive internal platform portal and automated tooling suite that enables product teams to provision cloud resources, create microservice boilerplate templates, set up observability dashboards, and manage deployment pipelines independently.

Expected Outcomes

• Platform Strategy & Vision: Define and execute a unified, multi-year roadmap spanning applicative platformization, shared foundational capabilities, and AI developer enablement to accelerate product squad velocity.
• Reusable Capabilities: Architect and deliver highly resilient shared foundation components, including AI agent orchestration, event-streaming pipelines, workflow engines, and distributed data replication services.
• Squad Operating Model: Structure, recruit, and scale autonomous, product-mindful engineering squads with clear domain boundaries, strong mission ownership, and rigorous delivery metrics.
• Service Standards & Tooling: Enforce consistent API contracts, standard event formats, strict Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and intuitive self-service developer portals to eliminate cross-team bottlenecks.
• Enterprise Governance & Security: Ensure all core platform services and agentic AI workflows comply with high-availability enterprise financial standards, robust auditability, and fine-grained access control.
• Reliability & Scalability: Drive continuous performance optimization, fault tolerance, and multi-region resilience across all platform microservices and data pipelines.
• Leadership & Talent Bench: Cultivate an engineering culture of excellence, mentoring Engineering Managers, Staff/Principal Engineers, and technical leads across global sites.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Product Management: Treat platform features as internal products, establishing customer feedback loops with application teams to drive adoption and measure developer satisfaction.
• Technical Execution: Oversee the end-to-end design, implementation, and lifecycle management of platform microservices, shared UI libraries, and data access layers.
• Architectural Alignment: Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Cloud Infrastructure teams to align platform deliverables with cloud-native best practices.
• Operational Excellence: Establish robust incident management, observability practices, continuous deployment pipelines, and proactive capacity planning across all owned domains.
• Cross-Functional Executive Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management, Information Security, Cloud Operations, and Customer Success to ensure technical platform milestones align directly with key business objectives and customer SLAs.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Platform Leadership: Proven track record leading Platform, Distributed Systems, or AI Engineering organizations for large-scale enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Architecture Expertise: Deep domain knowledge in event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka), API design, workflow engines, distributed databases, and high-throughput data processing.
• Legacy Modernization: Hands-on experience platformizing monoliths into modern, cloud-native microservices and shared capabilities without disrupting business continuity.
• Product Mindset: Demonstrated capability to manage internal developer tools as products, balancing technical debt reduction with feature delivery.
• AI & Automation Integration: Understanding of modern AI/ML infrastructure, agentic workflows, LLM orchestration platforms, and vector data storage solutions.
• Scale & Leadership Experience: 10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, with at least 5 years managing multi-squad platform organizations and scaling distributed engineering talent in international settings.
• Education & Technical Foundation: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience).

Operational Excellence, Reliability & Metrics

Because Kyriba handles billions of dollars in daily corporate treasury transactions, platform reliability, availability, and performance are paramount. The Director of Platform Engineering will establish and hold teams accountable to key performance indicators (KPIs) and operational standards.

• Service Level Objectives (SLOs) & Availability: Maintain 99.99% availability across all platform core services, defining clear Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and enforcing actionable Error Budget policies.
• Developer Velocity & Efficiency: Track DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Mean Time to Restore, Change Failure Rate) across all application squads to continually eliminate build and deployment friction.

Our Values Guide Everything We Do

Think Big & Constantly Innovate: We have the confidence to think big, embrace change, challenge the status quo, and continuously evolve - incorporating new technologies and driving industry progress.

Put our Customers’ Outcomes First: We are passionate about delivering the highest value for our customers and supporting them with end-to-end care throughout our journey with them.

Act with Integrity: Integrity is at the heart of everything we do. We take personal responsibility for our actions, own our decisions, and honour each other’s contributions.

We empower each other through honesty, respect, trust and transparency.

Work as One Team: We are driven by our common goals and share in each other’s successes and failures, learning and working together as a team where everyone can bring their best selves.

Strive for Excellence while Having Fun: We enjoy tackling new challenges together, and revel in continuous improvement as we deliver, with ultimate professionalism, the very best for our customers, while exceeding our own expectations.

Salary & Benefits

For new hires, the annual base salary range for this role is zł531,100.00 - zł671,650.00 based on a full-time schedule. Salary can progress beyond this range through sustained performance and demonstrated success in the role.

In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for variable compensation (e.g. performance bonus or commission-based plan) and a long-term incentive. The final package will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and qualifications.

Kyriba also offers a comprehensive compensation package, including a range of health, welfare and wellbeing benefits designed to support both your professional and personal life.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity

Kyriba believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship, and genetic information.

We aim to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone.