Executive Director, Platform Governance & Strategy

About the Role

Lead the Platform Engineering organization at OCC, overseeing Platform Engineering Governance & Compliance, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Strategy & Architecture, and Metrics & Reporting. The role requires scaling a mature SRE practice, driving cloud architectural standards, ensuring platform health visibility, and managing Fin Ops and Sec Ops domains as Product Manager.

• Scale and mature the SRE practice: establish error budgets, SLOs, SLAs, incident response frameworks, and reliability standards across all platform services.
• Define and enforce on‑call models, blameless post‑mortems, and corrective action tracking to drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with Platform Foundation teams (Kubernetes, Kafka, Fin Ops/Security) to embed reliability principles and reduce toil through automation.
• Serve as Product Manager for Fin Ops and Sec Ops domains, owning product vision, prioritization, and stakeholder alignment for governance tooling.
• Maintain a governance framework that ensures adherence to incident, problem, risk, and audit standards.
• Own end‑to‑end PE compliance processes, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, problems, risks, and audit observations.
• Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Security functions to identify gaps, drive remediation, and maintain compliance posture.
• Define and execute multi‑year cloud architecture strategy aligned to growth, scalability, regulatory compliance, and cost optimization.
• Establish cloud architectural standards, reference architectures, and governance frameworks for landing zones, identity, and network patterns.
• Guide cloud‑native architecture decisions, including containerization, IaaS/PaaS adoption, disaster recovery, and multi‑region patterns.
• Own metrics and reporting: build dashboards, define KPIs, and enable data‑driven prioritization across engineering and executive audiences.
• Coordinate with Platform Engineering Program Management to scope, sequence, and resource platform initiatives.
• Build and retain a high‑performing team of engineering managers and staff, fostering a culture of automation, full‑stack ownership, and transparency.
• Oversee audit findings remediations, risk mitigation, and budget adherence for assigned areas.
• Manage work/life balance and overall team delivery quality.

• Proven executive‑level leadership of SRE, cloud engineering, or platform reliability in a regulated environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build and scale SRE practices, including SLO/SLA frameworks, on‑call models, error budgets, and incident response programs.
• Deep expertise in cloud architecture strategy and governance, with enterprise‑wide standards experience.
• Strong cross‑functional partnership with Program/Product Management; ability to translate platform capabilities into roadmaps.
• Experience serving in a Product Manager role for technical domains such as Fin Ops, Sec Ops, or platform tooling.
• Experience establishing and managing governance and compliance frameworks, overseeing incidents, problem management, risk items, and audit obligations.
• Ability to design and maintain metrics and reporting frameworks that provide visibility into platform health, performance, and compliance.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for executive‑level insight translation.
• Proven leadership of high‑performing, highly technical teams through accountability, coaching, and clear ownership.
• Agile/Scrum experience with strong prioritization and deadline management.
• Preferred: production change control process experience; audit and compliance work in regulated industries; CIS, NIST exposure.
• Preferred: financial services or similarly regulated industries experience.
• Required Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  SRE tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Pager Duty, Datadog, etc.); cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and multi‑cloud exposure; container orchestration (Kubernetes, Kafka); CI/CD tooling (Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, etc.); metrics/reporting platform design;
  Fin Ops principles and cloud cost governance;
  Sec Ops tooling and security governance practices.
• Preferred Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  GRC tooling (Service Now, Archer, etc.).
• Required
  
  Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in a…