Senior Director, Platform Engineering

Jobtailor; Missouri; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Director of Platform Engineering to lead and mentor the platform engineering organization, set strategic priorities, and drive performance improvements. The role emphasizes coaching, collaboration, and insourcing initiatives within a banking technology context.

The candidate will oversee HR processes, partner with technology and business teams, and guide cross-functional leaders through change while upholding risk and customer experience standards.

Qualifications

• 11-15 years of combined people leadership and hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and coach employees.
• Remove impediments to performance.
• Enable collaboration across teams.
• Lead the platform engineering craft.
• Share best practices.
• Execute insourcing strategies.
• Handle performance reviews, compensation, and other HR processes for the team.
• Collaborate across the Technology team and other internal groups.
• Participate in strategic planning.
• Supervise other people leaders and individual contributors.
• Identify, assess, manage, monitor, and report risks.
• Follow policies and procedures and maintain customer and colleague focus.
• Drive a positive customer experience while operating within the bank’s risk appetite.

Skills

People leadership

Coaching

Strategic thinking

Communication

Agile practices

Influence

Problem solving

Relationship building

Change management

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Job description

The Senior Director, Platform Engineering will lead people, driving leadership across the organization, influencing strategic priorities, coaching employees, removing impediments to performance, enabling collaboration, leading the platform engineering craft, sharing best practices, and executing insourcing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and coach employees.
• Remove impediments to performance.
• Enable collaboration.
• Lead the platform engineering craft.
• Share best practices.
• Execute insourcing strategies.
• Handle performance review, compensation, and other core HR processes for the team.
• Collaborate across the Technology team and other internal groups.
• Participate in strategic planning.
• Supervise other people leaders and individual contributors.
• Identify, assess, manage, monitor, and report risks.
• Follow policies and procedures and maintain customer and colleague focus.
• Drive a positive customer experience while operating within the bank’s risk appetite.

Requirements

• 11-15 years of combined people leadership and hands‑on experience.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A passion for guiding, teaching, mentoring, and leading people.
• Ability to establish self as a leader, recognized by other divisions and business partners.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to simplify complex information and meet fast‑paced deadlines.
• Experience communicating and removing impediments at team and organizational levels.
• Deep understanding of all software lifecycle development disciplines.
• Critical thinking and creative problem‑solving skills.
• Understanding of agile principles and ability to reinforce the establishment of teams with the right people.
• Ability to lead self‑organizing teams and drive change through influence.
• Ability to build trust and rapport that creates a sustainable and effective workplace.