Lead Platform Engineer: Technical Delivery Leader

Guild Mortgage Company; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Guild Mortgage Company is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to provide senior execution-oriented technical leadership within the Platform Engineering & Developer Experience organization. The role translates platform capability objectives into effective engineering execution across the IT Factory platform ecosystem.

Based in the US, the incumbent will work across software engineering, DevOps, SRE, security, and IAM to operationalize architectural direction, reinforce continuity, and improve

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years' experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related technical engineering disciplines.
• Minimum three years supervisory or leadership experience in technical lead roles supporting engineering delivery environments.
• Demonstrated broad technical competency across software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud platforms, observability, quality engineering, SRE, and modern software delivery practices.
• Proven experience leading complex engineering implementation efforts through technical leadership, engineering influence, and execution discipline rather than personnel management.
• Strong systems-thinking capability with the ability to identify technical constraints, implementation risks, dependency relationships, and execution tradeoffs across platform engineering initiatives.
• Experience providing hands-on technical leadership through engineering design, implementation guidance, troubleshooting, technical mentoring, and execution support.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering execution across Platform Engineering & Developer Experience initiatives by translating platform capability objectives into effective engineering implementation and enabling successful execution across the IT Factory platform ecosystem.
• Translate architectural direction and platform objectives into engineering execution while reinforcing continuity and reusable practices.
• Provide execution-oriented technical leadership across software engineering, DevOps, SRE, quality engineering, security, IAM, and related capabilities to align activities and improve effectiveness.
• Mentor and develop engineers through technical leadership, implementation coaching, and engineering best practices.
• Contribute to the evolution of reusable platform capabilities, engineering workflows, automation, and patterns to strengthen the IT Factory operating model.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Azure

.NET

Infrastructure automation

Observability platforms

CI/CD ecosystems

Job description

Guild Mortgage Company is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to provide senior execution-oriented technical leadership within the Platform Engineering & Developer Experience organization. The role translates platform capability objectives into effective engineering execution across the IT Factory platform ecosystem.

Based in the US, the incumbent will work across software engineering, DevOps, SRE, security, and IAM to operationalize architectural direction, reinforce continuity, and improve