Director, Cloud Engineering (Individual Contributor)

Job Description:

Job Description

We are seeking an exceptional Individual Contributor Director Engineer to lead our cloud platform engineering initiatives. This is a high-autonomy IC role focused on solving complex cross-functional and cross-domain engineering problems while driving technical excellence across asset management business unit.

As an IC Director Engineer, you will demonstrate strategic understanding of asset management priorities and drive technical decisions with broad scope to solve critical business problems. You will assess and define problem spaces before product teams define requirements, possessing strong technical experience, risk assessment capabilities, and the ability to navigate different perspectives and priorities. This role connects strategic objectives set by senior leadership with the technical work delivered by engineering teams.

You will work on complex software engineering problems, implementing the highest quality technology solutions while providing context and technical direction. Your focus will be on defining technical solutions, documenting processes, and ensuring engineering excellence through hands-on technical leadership.

The Team

You will be joining Asset Management Technology Foundations team, a dynamic engineering organization that values technical excellence, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration. Our team works on cutting-edge cloud infrastructure, platform scalability, and modernization initiatives that impact multiple product domains across asset management business unit.

The team culture emphasizes:

• Technical Leadership: Providing thought leadership and mentoring other engineers
• Innovation Focus: Deep technical work driving innovation and engineering excellence
• Cross-functional Impact: Influencing architecture, engineering standards, and cross-team strategies
• Community Building: Leading design working groups, tech communities, and architecture partnerships
• Strategic Alignment: Partnering with Engineering Leadership, Business, Product, and Design teams

• 12+ years of experience in software infrastructure or platform engineering, including 5+ years of deep experience with AWS Services and Kubernetes
• Deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes ecosystem: EKS, Helm, ArgoCD, autoscaling, resource limits/quotas, and operator frameworks (e.g., KEDA)
• AWS Architecture Mastery: VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, Route 53, CloudWatch, and security best practices
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK
• Cloud Modernization Leadership: Proven experience leading multi-region deployment or enterprise-wide platform transformation efforts

• FinOps & Cost Optimization: Champion FinOps principles with expertise in cost governance, resource optimization, and usage transparency across engineering teams
• Security & Compliance: Good understanding of cloud security, compliance frameworks, and operational maturity (PCI, SOC2, resilience patterns)
• DevSecOps Integration: Partner with security, platform, and engineering teams to drive best practices including IaC, policy-as-code, and supply chain security
• CI/CD & Observability: Provide technical leadership and hands-on support for Kubernetes, ingress/egress controls, observability, and CI/CD pipelines

• Cloud-Native Technologies: Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies, improving developer velocity, platform stability, and cost efficiency
• Multi-Cloud Strategy: Drive global consistency in infrastructure design, multi-account strategies, networking patterns, and identity models across regions

• Cross-functional Influence: Excellent ability to influence stakeholders and lead without authority across engineering, product, and business teams
• Strategic Communication: Clear, strategic communicator capable of engaging engineers and executives alike
• Technical Vision: Ability to articulate and evangelize bold technical vision for your domain, decomposing complex problems into practical solutions

• Technical Mentorship: Actively coach teams and engineers across chapter areas, influencing product leaders and business partners
• Community Leadership: Lead, sponsor, and mentor design working groups, tech communities, and architecture partnerships within the organization
• Change Leadership: Navigate complex organizational dynamics with strong communication skills to lead change throughout the asset management technology organization

• Systems Thinking: Break down complex architectures into designs, innovate and perform POCs, implement frameworks and patterns
• Solution Architecture: Lead and review technical solutions and code, with focus on engineering excellence and quality technical solutions
• Risk Assessment: Strong understanding of risk assessment and ability to navigate different perspectives and priorities

• Shape Next-Generation Infrastructure: Drive the evolution of cloud-native infrastructure at global scale, defining the technical foundation for growth
• Trusted Technical Advisor: Serve as a key technical advisor to senior leaders, helping define the future of platform architecture and operating models
• Engineering Excellence: Work with top engineering minds to solve challenging problems in performance, reliability, security, and velocity

• Technical Roadmap Leadership: Lead technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for AWS cloud architecture and Kubernetes-based orchestration across multiple product domains
• Cost Optimization: Drive significant cost optimization through FinOps principles, resource governance, and architectural efficiency improvements
• Platform Scalability: Architect scalable, secure, and resilient multi-tenant platforms supporting microservices, serverless, and container-based workloads

• Talent Development: Lead the way in creating next-generation talent, mentoring internal talent, and actively recruiting to build our engineering community
• Technical Standards: Influence architecture, engineering standards, and cross-team strategies that impact the entire technology organization
• Innovation Culture: Handle multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously, ensuring teams have the technical vision and communication skills to lead organizational change

• Experience with cloud cost optimization tools such as Cloudability
• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments (AWS + Azure/GCP)
• Familiarity with cost optimization strategies, FinOps, and cloud spend visibility
• Exposure to Kafka, API gateways, feature flagging, or internal developer platforms (IDPs)
• Background in regulated industries like fintech, healthcare, or telecom