What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Technology position at TechWish?
Platform Product Leadership
- Define and execute the product vision and roadmap for cloud and DevOps platforms.
- Drive adoption of a platform-as-a-product mindset across infrastructure and engineering teams.
- Build a catalog of automated infrastructure foundations, self-service provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and container patterns for microservices applications.
- Develop deep partnerships with digital product and enterprise software engineering teams.
- Understand dependencies, priorities, and technical diversity across teams.
- Tailor platform solutions that balance common services with alignment to varying technology stacks and patterns.
- Lead the development and delivery of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native platforms.
- Ensure platforms support rapid development, deployment, and operations across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Integrate observability, security, and compliance into platform capabilities.
- Leverage AI to simplify the DevOps experience and enhance developer productivity.
- Deliver intelligent automation that streamlines infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD workflows, and operational tasks.
- Provide predictive insights and proactive recommendations to improve reliability, security, and efficiency.
- Drive enterprise-wide cloud cost optimization efforts in partnership with CIOs and finance leaders.
- Deliver FinOps automation, reporting, and governance capabilities to improve cloud spend transparency and accountability.
- Establish and lead a DevOps Council to foster collaboration, feedback, and shared ownership across teams.
- Promote crowdsourcing, knowledge sharing, and training initiatives to build a vibrant DevOps culture.
- Provide data-driven insights and automation tools to help teams improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency in Day 2 operations.
- Use community feedback to inform platform roadmaps and backlogs.
- Drive sprint-based agile delivery with regular releases, demos, and iterative testing.
- Partner with DevOps teams to ensure adoption and continuous improvement of platform capabilities.
- Curate an enterprise-grade internal marketplace of reusable patterns, services, and tools that accelerate development and operations.
- Lead cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and architects using agile methodologies.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and innovation.
- Mentor and grow talent within the cloud and DevOps organization.
- Bachelor's Degree.
- 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering.
- 5 years of experience working with one or more of the hyper-scalers (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
- 5 years of people leadership experience.