VP Cloud Platform Engineering

About the role

The VP of Platform Engineering is responsible for defining and executing the enterprise platform engineering vision, strategy, and operating model across cloud infrastructure, platform services, automation, DevSecOps, reliability engineering, and developer enablement capabilities. This executive leader oversees multiple platform engineering organizations and establishes enterprise standards that ensure secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective technology platforms. The VP partners with executive leaders across engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, operations, data, product, and business functions to align platform investments with strategic business priorities. This role drives multi-year modernization initiatives, operational excellence, cloud transformation, platform adoption, engineering productivity, and enterprise technology governance while developing high-performing leadership teams and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise platform engineering strategy, roadmaps, standards, and governance frameworks aligned to organizational objectives.
• Lead enterprise modernization, cloud transformation, engineering enablement, and platform adoption initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, security, and developer productivity.
• Provide executive oversight for platform engineering organizations responsible for cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, platform services, automation frameworks, and engineering tooling. Ensure delivery excellence, operational effectiveness, and alignment with enterprise technology priorities.
• Establish enterprise standards and operating principles for cloud platforms, resilience, observability, availability, recovery, and performance engineering. Drive continuous improvement programs that enhance reliability, efficiency, and customer experience while reducing operational risk.
• Ensure platform services meet enterprise security, regulatory, compliance, audit, and risk management objectives. Sponsor security-by-design practices, cloud governance frameworks, and proactive risk mitigation strategies across the platform ecosystem.
• Partner with executive stakeholders across technology and business organizations to prioritize investments, evaluate emerging technologies, and align platform capabilities with growth, innovation, and operational objectives. Serve as a trusted advisor on platform engineering strategy and technology direction.
• Oversee platform investment planning, workforce strategy, vendor management, and technology financial management practices. Optimize operational expenditures, cloud consumption, and platform investments while balancing business priorities, risk, and long-term strategic objectives.
• Champion adoption of emerging technologies, automation capabilities, AI-enabled engineering solutions, and modern platform practices that improve engineering velocity, scalability, and business value delivery across the enterprise.
• Lead and develop a diverse organization of senior leaders and engineering professionals. Build leadership capability, succession pipelines, organizational effectiveness, and a culture of accountability, inclusion, innovation, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 17-19 years of experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or related technology disciplines.
• 12+ years leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale platform transformation and modernization initiatives.
• Experience overseeing large, complex technology organizations and multi-million-dollar platform portfolios.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
• Advanced certifications in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Security, or enterprise architecture disciplines.
• Experience leading enterprise cloud transformation, platform product models, FinOps, SRE, DevSecOps, and AI-enabled engineering initiatives.
• Experience within highly regulated industries, including financial services.

Skills

• Cloud Services Management
• Platform Engineering
• DevSecOps
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
• Technology Strategies
• Technology Governance
• Enterprise Architecture (EA)
• IT Capacity Planning
• Technology Financial Management
• Organizational Leadership
• Strategic Change Reporting

Pay

$217,700.00 - $466,600.00

Schedule

Normal office environment. As a senior leader, must work at a Bread Financial office a minimum of 6 days per month. Ability to travel 6 days a month if not located near a Bread Financial office. Travel Ability to travel up to 10% annually