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managers and engineers on technical judgment, execution discipline, stakeholder engagement, and career growth; delegate effectively while maintaining accountability.\nBusiness & Stakeholder Management\nPartner with product teams, enterprise architects, security leaders, finance transformation stakeholders, and clients to translate business needs into platform priorities.\nBalance platform investment, delivery capacity, risk, and business value; align stakeholders on trade-offs, service expectations, and measurable outcomes.\nSupport solutioning, proposals, and client discussions with platform architecture, delivery estimates, operating models, and cost considerations.\nCommunicate roadmap progress, investment needs, service health, delivery risks, and business impact clearly to executive stakeholders.\nPlatform & Product Mindset\nManage the platform as an internal product, using developer feedback and adoption metrics to prioritize capabilities that reduce friction and accelerate delivery.\nBuild self-service workflows, reusable infrastructure modules, service catalogs, and standardized delivery paths with clear documentation and onboarding.\nMeasure platform value through adoption, developer satisfaction, onboarding time, delivery lead time, and reduced operational toil; enable secure analytics and AI use cases.\nQualifications\nEducation & Experience\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n12+ years of experience across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE, including substantial architecture and delivery ownership.\n5+ years of engineering people-management experience, with a demonstrated track record of leading multiple teams and developing engineering managers or technical leads.\nTechnical Expertise\nDeep experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP), including networking, identity, security, resilience, and cloud 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