HA Director, Platform Engineering HarbourVest · Boston · Platform & Infrastructure –4d ago

Job Description Summary

For over forty years, Harbour Vest has been home to a committed team of professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to deliver impactful solutions to our clients and investing partners. As our global firm grows, we continue to add individuals who seek a collaborative, open-door culture that values diversity and innovative thinking.

In our collegial environment, that’s marked by low turnover and high energy, you’ll be inspired to grow and thrive. Here, you will be encouraged to build on your strengths and acquire new skills and experiences.

We are committed to fostering an environment of inclusion that promotes mutual respect among all employees. Understanding and valuing these differences optimizes the potential of both the individual and the firm.

Harbour Vest is an equal opportunity employer.

This position will be a hybrid work arrangement. You will receive 18 remote workdays per quarter to use at your discretion, subject to manager approval. For example, you may choose to work in the office 4 days per week and take one remote day weekly (typically 13 weeks per quarter), leaving 5 additional remote days to be used as needed.

We are seeking a director to lead our Platform Engineering. We are searching for a highly respected, hands‑on technology leader. They define a cohesive platform architecture, set long‑term technical direction, and lead modernization efforts across the firm. This enables scale, agility, resilience, and growth.

As a Director of Platform Engineering, you will adhere to the firm’s target‑state architecture across applications, integration, cloud environments, and shared engineering capabilities! You will partner closely with engineering leadership, product and delivery teams, data and security stakeholders, vendors, and enterprise technology partners to enhance and grow our One Platform strategy and guide sophisticated modernization initiatives from concept through adoption. This role will simplify a fragmented technology landscape and improve interoperability.

It will enable reusable platform capabilities. It ensures the company’s technological infrastructure can support future business expansion.

You bring deep expertise in modern application build and platform structure and apply that expertise to build scalable, secure, and durable technology patterns across the enterprise. You are fluent in architectural design patterns and modern engineering practices, including microservices, micro‑frontends, event-driven systems, cloud-native development, Dev Ops, and modern web application engineering. You lead through influence and hands‑on technical credibility, helping teams make sound architectural decisions while raising engineering quality, consistency, and ongoing structural durability within the organization.

• Hands‑on knowledge of microservices architecture, micro‑frontend architecture, and event‑driven design patterns in complex enterprise environments
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure development and cloud‑native architecture, preferably in Azure, including scalable application patterns, integration, identity, networking, observability, and resilience
• Proven grasp of Dev Ops principles and the processes involved in delivering software, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, environment strategy, and release governance
• Expertise in contemporary web application development and architecture, including frameworks and technologies like Angular, React, Type Script, Node.js, and development dedicated to web-based interfaces
• Experience developing distributed systems that make use of Redis for caching, Kafka for messaging, and robust data access layer patterns
• Strong understanding of integration,…