Platform Services Leader: Strategy, Reliability & Impact

Morningstar, Inc.

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 148,000 - 226,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Morningstar, Inc. is seeking a Manager of Platform Services to lead a team responsible for strategy, delivery, reliability, and evolution of key platform services.

This role balances people management, technical leadership, and execution to shape roadmaps, ensure dependable services, and partner with engineering, product, infrastructure, and vendors. The ideal candidate will be technically credible, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and drive high-impact

Qualifications

  • Must have led engineering teams and managed priorities to support career growth.
  • Strong background in software/platform engineering, infrastructure, cloud services, or related discipline.
  • Experience delivering scalable services in production, including SaaS or self-hosted in AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coach a small team of platform engineers, fostering ownership and technical excellence.
  • Own delivery, health, and lifecycle management of internal platform services (version control, code quality tooling, dev portal).
  • Define and execute service roadmaps aligned with Platform Engineering priorities and consumer needs.
  • Provide technical direction on architecture, scalability, reliability, security, observability, and DX.

Skills

People management
Technical leadership
Platform engineering
Cloud services
Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS
Kubernetes
RDS

Job description

Morningstar, Inc. is seeking a Manager of Platform Services to lead a team responsible for strategy, delivery, reliability, and evolution of key platform services.

This role balances people management, technical leadership, and execution to shape roadmaps, ensure dependable services, and partner with engineering, product, infrastructure, and vendors. The ideal candidate will be technically credible, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and drive high-impact

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