Platform Engineering Director — Cloud-Native FinTech & API

Jobtailor; Illinois; On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a team delivering underwriting and ACAPS capabilities in a cloud-native environment. You will drive modernization roadmaps, align engineering with business priorities, and partner with product, architecture, security, and operations to deliver scalable solutions.

This role requires deep expertise in banking/fintech platforms, microservices, REST APIs, and secure architecture, with strong executive communication for cross-functional

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Five+ years leading a software engineering team.
• Experience in banking/fintech/payments/digital platforms.
• Strong experience building large-scale digital banking platforms.
• Cloud technologies and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience delivering microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and high-volume processing.
• Deep knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, SRE, and observability.
• Knowledge of security, OAuth/OIDC, API governance, regulatory compliance.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or product-centric delivery.
• Executive communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience building AI-driven decision automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of software engineers delivering underwriting/ACAPS capabilities.
• Drive execution of modernization roadmaps aligned with business priorities and outcomes.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and Operations to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices including Agile, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability, and SRE.
• Oversee API platform development, integration services, microservices architecture, and partner ecosystem connectivity.
• Monitor platform performance, availability, reliability, and drive continuous improvement.
• Manage hiring, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and career development.
• Lead technology modernization focused on cloud adoption, digital transformation, automation, and efficiency.

Skills

Cloud Technologies

Microservices Architecture

DevOps & CI/CD

Agile Leadership

Executive Communication

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Observability Tools

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a team delivering underwriting and ACAPS capabilities in a cloud-native environment. You will drive modernization roadmaps, align engineering with business priorities, and partner with product, architecture, security, and operations to deliver scalable solutions.

This role requires deep expertise in banking/fintech platforms, microservices, REST APIs, and secure architecture, with strong executive communication for cross-functional