Director Engineering Platform Architecture

Overview

As Director, you will lead a multidisciplinary Engineering Platform Architecture team to set strategy, define target architectures, and guide roadmaps across compute, HPC, cloud, data, and security domains. You will exercise design authority, balance performance and cost, and drive reusable platform patterns that increase productivity while reducing fragmentation. Collaborating with AI, product, and service leaders, you translate ambitious ideas into practical architectures with measurable outcomes. You will shape the platform to support future SoC development workflows and ensure safe adoption across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a global team of Engineering Platform architects, set outcomes, manage performance, and build capability.
• Exercise delegated design authority with clear decision rights, governance, and design reviews.
• Define future-state architectures and transition roadmaps across compute, HPC, cloud, data, automation, security and service architecture.
• Create and test platform concepts that boost productivity, reuse, and scalable access to compute/data while reducing fragmentation and cost.
• Align AI-enabled capabilities with platform principles in partnership with the Principal Eng Plat AI Architect, ensuring distinct platform and AI accountability.
• Establish reusable principles, reference architectures, standards, and lifecycle guidance.
• Assure platform designs from discovery to operation, covering capacity, performance, data movement, identity, security, resilience, observability, and cost.
• Collaborate with Engineering, product, platform, delivery, Data Platform Engineering, Security and service leaders to resolve cross-domain choices and assess outcomes.

Key requirements

• Experience leading Engineering Platform architecture or design teams in a complex global technology organization.
• Deep architecture experience across large-scale compute/HPC, cloud, data platforms, automation, security, resilience, observability and service architecture.
• Proven ability to define future-state platform architectures and executable roadmaps for demanding workflows and high-volume data.
• Strong systems thinking, challenging assumptions, and converting ideas into sound architecture decisions.
• Experience operating an enabling design authority with delegated rights and governance.
• Strong people leadership, capability development, coaching, performance management, and building effective teams.
• Ability to influence senior engineering and technology leaders and align cross-functional priorities.
• Sound technical and commercial judgement balancing productivity, performance, reliability, security, sustainability, cost, and delivery pace.

• leadership
• influence
• strategic thinking
• large-scale compute/HPC
• cloud and data platforms
• automation

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