Director Enterprise Platform Governance SRE

# Director Enterprise Platform Governance SREChicago Fin Ops Not  Specified
19/05/2026

Full-time

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Job Description Position is bonus eligible  Prestigious Financial Institution is currently seeking a Director Enterprise Platform Governance and Strategy with strong SRE leadership experience. Candidate will manage a team of engineering managers and senior technical staff across Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Architecture, and Metrics & Reporting functions. The leader in this role is accountable for scaling a mature SRE practice, driving cloud architectural standards and multi-year strategy, and ensuring the organization operates with clear, data-driven visibility into platform health and performance.

A critical dimension of this role is ownership of the Fin Ops and Sec Ops domains as Product Manager, alongside governance of PE compliance obligations spanning incidents, risks, and audit findings.  Responsibilities:  Site Reliability Engineering  Lead the scaling and maturation of the SRE practice, establishing error budgets, SLOs, SLAs, and incident response frameworks across all platform services.  Define and enforce reliability standards including on-call models, blameless postmortem processes, and corrective action tracking to drive continuous improvement.  

Partner with Platform Foundation teams (Kubernetes, Kafka, Fin Ops/Security) to embed reliability principles into build and operate models.  Champion toil reduction through automation, ensuring engineering capacity is redirected from manual operations to higher-value platform capabilities.  Platform Engineering Governance & Compliance  Serve as Product Manager for the Fin Ops and Sec Ops domains within Platform Engineering, owning the product vision, prioritization, and stakeholder alignment for governance tooling and practices.  

Establish and maintain a governance framework ensuring Platform Engineering adheres to organizational standards across incident and problem management, SORTs, risk tracking, and audit findings.  Own the end-to-end process for PE compliance obligations, ensuring timely resolution and closure of incidents, problem tickets, risk items, and audit observations with clear accountability and tracking.  Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Security functions to proactively identify governance gaps, drive remediation, and ensure PE operates within the organization’s risk appetite.  

Maintain visibility and reporting on PE’s compliance posture across all obligation types, surfacing trends, aging items, and residual risks to CARE leadership and relevant stakeholders.  Site Reliability Engineering COE  Lead the scaling and maturation of the SRE practice, establishing error budgets, SLOs, SLAs, and incident response frameworks across all platform services.  Define and enforce reliability standards including on-call models, blameless postmortem processes, and corrective action tracking to drive continuous improvement.  

Partner with Platform Engineering Product teams (Kubernetes, Kafka, Fin Ops/Security) to embed reliability principles into build and operate models.  Champion toil reduction through automation, ensuring engineering capacity is redirected from manual operations to higher-value platform capabilities.  Cloud Strategy & Architecture  Define and execute the multi-year cloud architecture strategy aligned to business growth, scalability, regulatory compliance, and cost optimization goals.  Establish cloud architectural standards, reference architectures, and governance frameworks (landing zones, identity, network patterns, service catalog) and drive adoption across engineering.  

Guide cloud-native architecture decisions including containers/orchestration, IaaS/PaaS adoption, disaster recovery, and multi-region patterns with a steady eye on regulatory requirements (e.g., CIS, NIST).  Oversee technology roadmaps and end-of-life planning for cloud platform components, ensuring forward-looking decisions balance innovation with operational stability.  Serve as a key technical advisor to senior leadership, translating complex architectural trade-offs into clear business decisions.  Metrics &…