Sr Director - Cloud Platform

Description & Requirements

Senior Director -Cloud Platform Engineering is responsible for the delivery of our next generation of products and services.

As a leader on our Cloud Services team, we will help drive our engineering culture by designing, building, and evangelizing technical solutions that enable new business capabilities on our cloud-based, distributed computer environment.

They will have experience and exceptional knowledge in designing and developing highly-scalable solutions in a cloud environment.

Have good communication skills and be comfortable providing technical leadership to multiple development teams and business stakeholders.

Background in directly managing geographically distributed technical teams, working with highly demanding product executive management and collaborating with non-technical business operations team.

Background in financial management, including capital budget management, forecasting, and operating budgeting.

This is a remote position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead and manage a high performance team that thrives in an agile development and DevOps environment.

- Lead design, implementation, governance and support of key technology platforms that support our digital transformation.

- Partner with the business, understand objectives and current challenges to assist in designing solutions.

- Closely collaborate with technology and business partners across the firm to scale existing products to new lines of business while also advancing our digital agenda through automation and straight through processing.

- Utilize best in class technology solutions to develop compelling features Clients will love that also advance strategic agendas, like ongoing application modernization, retirement of legacy platforms, cross-enterprise scaling, cloud migration, and move towards DevOps.

- Manage capital and operating budgets and resource forecasts.

- Provide guidance on procurement and contract activities.

- Develop and manage relationships and maintain healthy collaboration with key external technology partners and 3rd party vendors.

- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and partners in product management, design, data analytics, and QA to maximize the teams' success.

- Own the resolution of production problems and efforts to track and remediate issues.

- Use extensive management skills and experience to develop technical and managerial leadership skills and create a vibrant culture of mutual support and motivation.

- Foster an environment of experimentation and continual improvement.

- Be or become an expert in one or more of the following platforms: Amazon AWS, Pivotal, etc.

- Ensure the appropriate security and privacy measures are implemented on technology solutions to protect Company data from intentional or accidental misuse.

- Collaborate and provide technical input to enterprise MAXIMUS organizations on M&A activities, business development, proposal submissions, etc.

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