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.

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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

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What we offer you :

Base Salary Range : $135,300.00 - $196,125.00

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

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.

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Salary : $135,300 - $196,125