Technical Director, Platform Engineering

About the role

We 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.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical vision and architecture roadmap for Platform Engineering, aligned with company strategy.
• Drive architecture decisions across the platform organization, including service boundaries, shared services, data flows, and APIs.
• Partner 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.
• Establish and govern platform engineering standards for reliability, security, scalability, observability, and developer productivity.
• Advise executive leadership on major platform investments, build-vs-buy decisions, and technical risk.
• Lead 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.
• Identify systemic technical debt and architectural risk in the platform, and drive multi-team plans to address them.
• Develop principal and staff engineers, and shape technical career paths and the hiring bar for Platform Engineering.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering