VP, Functional Design Engineering

Jobtailor; North Carolina; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior cloud architecture leader to spearhead the Functional Design Engineering & Strategy pod within the Foundations team. You will partner with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and multiple teams to translate enterprise intent into well-architected, code-driven solutions.

You will own detailed build-ready specifications, manage on-call rotations, and drive reference patterns, ADRs, and Terraform module strategy aligned with AWS Well-Architected standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive technical experience including leadership in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering
• 5+ years of hands-on production AWS at scale in a multi-account landing zone
• 5+ years experience as a direct people manager of engineering teams of 5+ engineers
• 5+ years experience leading 24x7 production on-call rotations in a regulated environment
• 5+ years translating enterprise architecture intent into implementable engineering designs with AWS Well-Architected proficiency

Responsibilities

• Lead the Functional Design Engineering & Strategy pod within the Foundations team and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and other pods to translate enterprise intent into well-architected, code-driven solutions
• Produce detailed, build-ready engineering specifications from high-level designs aligned to AWS Well-Architected Framework and LPL standards
• Define and curate cross-CCOE reference pattern library including Terraform modules, reference architectures, ADRs
• Partner with the Principal Engineer to keep tooling, IaC, and self-service platform strategy aligned with enterprise design direction
• Lead design reviews, architecture review boards, and engineering deep-dives across all CCOE teams and peer pods

Skills

Leadership

People management

Technical writing

Architectural design

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Terraform Cloud

GitHub Actions

AWS

Job description

• Lead the Functional Design Engineering & Strategy pod within the Foundations team in CCOE; partner with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, the other Foundations pods (Security & Governance, FinOps, Network Engineering, Monitoring), and the Platforms, Containers, Support, and Delivery teams to translate enterprise architecture intent into implementable, well-architected, code-driven solutions
• Take high-level designs from architects and produce detailed, opinionated, build-ready engineering specifications aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and LPL standards
• Define and curate the cross-CCOE reference pattern library: domain-tagged Terraform module bundles, reference architectures, anti-patterns, and architecture decision records (ADRs)
• Partner closely with the Principal Engineer, Cloud Strategy Lead so that tooling, IaC, and self-service platform strategy stay aligned with enterprise design direction
• Lead design reviews, architecture review boards, and engineering deep-dives across all five CCOE teams (Foundations, Platforms, Containers, Support, Delivery) and the four peer Foundations pods (Security & Governance, FinOps, Functional Design Engineering & Strategy, Network Engineering, Monitoring)

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive technical experience including 5+ years in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering leadership
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent work experience)
• 5+ years of hands-on production AWS at scale in a multi-account landing zone, with 4+ years of authoring production Terraform in a private module ecosystem delivered through Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions
• 5+ years experience as a direct people manager of engineering teams of 5+ engineers, including hiring, performance management, compensation, and difficult personnel decisions
• 5+ years experience leading and personally participating in 24x7 production on-call rotations in a fast-paced, security-conscious, regulated environment (financial services strongly preferred)
• 5+ years experience translating enterprise architecture intent into implementable engineering designs that downstream engineers actually build, with deep, current command of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and excellent technical writing (ADRs, design documents, reference architectures)