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At NRG, we’re driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future.\nVivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes.\n\nAbout This Role\n\nWe are seeking a Technical Director to set the technical vision for Vivint's Platform Engineering organization: the cloud services, event pipelines, APIs, and infrastructure behind millions of connected homes. This is a senior principal-level individual-contributor role with scope across a large organization. You will define platform strategy and architecture, and work closely with the Mobile and Embedded software organizations to make sure the platform meets their needs and that systems integrate cleanly end to end. In this role, you will be responsible to:\n\nDefine the multi-year technical vision and architecture roadmap for Platform Engineering, aligned with company strategy.\n\nDrive architecture decisions across the platform organization, including service boundaries, shared services, data flows, and APIs.\n\nPartner with Mobile and Embedded engineering leaders to align on platform interfaces, device-to-cloud protocols, and integration patterns, and influence their technical decisions where they affect the platform.\n\nEstablish and govern platform engineering standards for reliability, security, scalability, observability, and developer productivity.\n\nAdvise executive leadership on major platform investments, build-vs-buy decisions, and technical risk.\n\nLead technical review of the highest-impact platform initiatives, and engage directly on the most complex problems, including those that span platform, mobile, and device systems.\n\nIdentify systemic technical debt and architectural risk in the platform, and drive multi-team plans to address them.\n\nDevelop principal and staff engineers, and shape technical career paths and the hiring bar for Platform Engineering.\n\nRequired Qualifications:\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience\n\n15+ years of experience building and operating production software systems, including 5+ years in principal-level or equivalent technical leadership roles\n\nTrack record setting technical direction for a large engineering organization (multiple teams), not only a single team or product\n\nDeep expertise in large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architecture (e.g., GCP or AWS, Kubernetes, event-driven systems)\n\nExperience leading major platform architecture changes, such as migrations or service decomposition, from strategy through delivery\n\nTrack record of influencing peer engineering organizations and executives, and driving alignment without direct authority\n\nStrong written communication, including authoring technical strategy and architecture documents\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\nExperience with IoT, connected devices, or consumer smart home products\n\nWorking knowledge of mobile and embedded software, including device-to-cloud communication (e.g., MQTT) and mobile API design\n\nExperience with AI/ML platforms, or integrating AI into platform services and engineering workflows\n\nExperience with security, privacy, and compliance for consumer products\n\nExperience with private cloud or hybrid infrastructure and cloud cost management\n\nExperience establishing architecture review processes, engineering standards, or technical career frameworks\n\nThe base salary range for this position is: $265,000 - $340,000* *The base salary range above represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. 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