Senior Director Platform Engineering

Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.

Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself.

As a Senior Director Platform Engineering, you will guide our adoption of a Site Reliability Engineering model for all value streams, as well as improve our infrastructure-as-code pipelines and expand our EKS based microservice platform across the Empower enterprise. Helping our autonomous cross-functional teams to be more productive is a top priority, as well as safeguarding our security and legacy of trust with automated controls, and continuously and significantly improve scalability and observability of our systems. 

What you will do:  

• Build, grow, and manage high performance engineering teams, including participating in the building of roadmaps, visions and the strategic activities of the teams
• Work with developers, quality engineers, security engineers, data engineers, DBAs, and product managers to build Infrastructure, Security, and Operation as Code to deliver highly secure and scalable applications that delight users and engineers alike
• Improve the design of legacy applications and advocate for Cloud Native patterns
• Leverage SRE to drive continuous improvement to our applications and processes
• Build and foster relationships with departments across Engineering and throughout the business
• Work with a broad portfolio in a fast-moving company and capable of creating positive change
• Lead by example, pull your sleeves up, and perform the hands-on work as needed to build and deploy pipelines as well as automation for internal processes keeping the development team performing at a high level
• Demonstrate strong leadership through strong verbal and written communication keeping leadership informed, creating organizational goals and working with other teams 
• Help remove technical obstacles, help enhance team processes, and drive resolutions for complex issues
• Mentor, coach, and support individuals in their career growth through 1x1s and developing healthy relationships

What you will bring: 

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent (an additional four years of hands-on work experience) required
• 10 years or more experience with AWS including the designing, building, operating of large-scale applications 
• 6 years of experience in managing a DevOps/SRE or Engineering organization and passion to mentor and lead talented engineers 
• Expert-level experience in building fully automated infrastructures (preferably in AWS, EKS, Gitlab and Terraform) 
• Experience setting up observability tools (SRE) and know how to drive their adoption with development teams 
• Hands-on experience working with, operating, and deploying CI/CD and IaC pipelines 
• Istio and AWS IAM experience

What will set you apart: 

• Master’s degree from an accredited College or University preferred 
• Software engineering background  
• Experience supporting data platforms/tools such as Spark, EMR and Sagemaker 
• Experience developing an Internal Development Platform 
• Know how to modernize web applications and support a migration to Cloud, IaC, SRE, EKS patterns
• Ability to work with people cooperatively and effectively from all organizations and levels of leadership 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

***Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.*** 

What we offer you

We offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) - internal networks that rally around common interest, experiences and identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, ability, military status and sexual orientation. BRGs play a vital role in educating and engaging our people and advancing our business priorities.

Base Salary Range

The salary range above shows the typical minimum to maximum base salary range for this position in the location listed. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation offered may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

Equal opportunity employer •  Drug-free workplace

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age (40 and over), race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law. 

***For remote and hybrid positions you will be required to provide reliable high-speed internet with a wired connection as well as a place in your home to work with limited disruption. You must have reliable connectivity from an internet service provider that is fiber, cable or DSL internet. Other necessary computer equipment, will be provided. You may be required to work in the office if you do not have an adequate home work environment and the required internet connection.***

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