VP, Infrastructure Platforms & Cloud Modernization

Northwestern Mutual Group; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 220,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedules

Concierge service

Comprehensive benefits

Employee resource groups

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual relies on Infrastructure Platforms to help engineering teams build, run, and improve critical systems with greater speed, reliability, security, and cost discipline. You will inherit a strong leadership team, a mature platform foundation, and executive sponsorship for continued modernization.

The opportunity is to operate the platform with clear product discipline, increase adoption of standard patterns, reduce duplication, and help the company make well-informed decisions

Qualifications

• 15 or more years in software or infrastructure engineering, including 8 or more years leading engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate a clear multi-year vision for Infrastructure Platforms and translate it into quarterly outcomes the organization can execute against.
• Partner across the technology platform organization to consolidate developer experience platforms so engineers have one paved road for building, testing, and deploying software.
• Complete the move to pipeline-first delivery and remove standing production access across the estate.
• Guide cloud, infrastructure, developer experience, and managed-service vendor relationships with disciplined demand planning, commercial governance, and outcome-based performance management. AWS experience is preferred given the company's primary cloud environment.
• Run production operations for the platforms with a continual reduction in outages as the standing goal: lead major incident response, own the post-incident review process, and turn recurring failure modes into engineering work with named owners and dates.
• Define and manage the platform scorecard for the organization, including adoption, reuse, availability, change failure rate, mean time to restore, incident trends, onboarding and provisioning time, unit cost, security and risk posture, developer satisfaction, and delivery cycle time.
• Represent Infrastructure Platforms to the CIO, the executive leadership team, and enterprise partners, and represent Northwestern Mutual to the broader engineering community.

Job description

Northwestern Mutual relies on Infrastructure Platforms to help engineering teams build, run, and improve critical systems with greater speed, reliability, security, and cost discipline. You will inherit a strong leadership team, a mature platform foundation, and executive sponsorship for continued modernization.

The opportunity is to operate the platform with clear product discipline, increase adoption of standard patterns, reduce duplication, and help the company make well-informed decisions