Head of Policy & Data Platform Engineering

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior leader to own the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for a Policy and Data Platform. You will build and scale a multi-team engineering organization, develop managers and senior engineers, and translate customer security policy needs into durable technical systems.

You will partner with product and security teams to align platform capabilities with customer needs. The role requires leading engineering standards that improve platform reliability and building security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• 15+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years in an engineering leadership role managing managers or senior engineers
• Experience architecting and scaling data platforms or policy systems in production
• Experience managing engineering budgets and resource planning for an organization of 30+ engineers
• Experience delivering large-scale distributed systems from design through production launch
• Experience building systems that secure customer environments (e.g., access control, firewall, workload protection)
• Familiarity with security policy enforcement across cloud, network, or hybrid environments
• Ability to translate technical tradeoffs into business terms for executives
• Experience building and scaling engineering teams through periods of rapid growth
• Ability to build trust and alignment across cross-functional, matrixed organizations

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Policy and Data Platform
• Build and scale a multi-team engineering organization
• Develop managers and senior engineers
• Translate customer security policy needs into durable technical systems
• Partner with product and security teams to align platform capabilities with customer needs
• Set engineering standards and operational practices that improve platform reliability
• Build security policy systems that protect customers' environments
• Enable teams across Cisco to integrate with the platform
• Strengthen signals used to recommend new policies and expand enforcement points

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Data Platform Architecture

Security Policy Systems

Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior leader to own the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for a Policy and Data Platform. You will build and scale a multi-team engineering organization, develop managers and senior engineers, and translate customer security policy needs into durable technical systems.

You will partner with product and security teams to align platform capabilities with customer needs. The role requires leading engineering standards that improve platform reliability and building security