Director - Cloud Platform Engineering

Please note, this position is designated as flexible, which means the selected candidate may be required to report to the assigned office in Greensboro, NC at least part of the time each week.

Great platforms are invisible-until you realize how much they unlock. This team takes raw cloud capability and turns it into services KP teams can actually use, fast. If you like owning products end to end and seeing them go live in the hands of real users, you'll feel at home here.

The Cloud Platform Engineering team turns cloud platform products into consumable enterprise services. This includes consulting, onboarding, product ownership, automation, release delivery, platform operations, and new service / fearure enablement-with a focus on Azure services, including cloud data, analytics and AI offerings. We enable and support secure, resilient delivery of these capabilities across KP application, analytics, and platform teams, automating self-service consumption so adoption scales.

This director-level position leads that team and is project- and delivery-facing. You'll work across internal KP teams, infrastructure, architecture, security, vendors, and business leaders to translate requirements into stable, supportable solutions and lead them through the full lifecycle-development, testing, release, deployment, adoption, and ongoing support. You'll also own portfolios of technical capabilities and accountability for service operation, including incident, change, and release management, from inception through deprecation.

This managing level employee is responsible for overseeing the management of multiple application portfolios, directing and overseeing technical teams, and for directing teams through all software development lifecycle phases.

• Directs the operation of multiple units and/or departments by identifying customer and operational needs; analyzing resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; gaining cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly;
  
  and ensuring products and/or services meet customer requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies.
• Demonstrates continuous learning and maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives; overseeing the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; motivating teams; preparing individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; staying current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; providing guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; and ensuring performance management guidelines and expectations drive business objectives and results.
• As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.
• Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.
• Ensures the provision of appropriate resources to address systems incident support and troubleshooting.
• Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions.
• Directs and oversees technical teams in the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by building and maintaining partnerships with Business Analyst and IT leadership to ensure team members understand business needs and functional specifications.
• Oversees the management of multiple application portfolios and/or provides resources in support of those portfolios by leveraging partnerships with IT teams (for example, Operations, Infrastructure, Architecture, Quality Assurance, Business Analysts), vendors, and business leaders to ensure adherence of written code to company standards.
• Oversees efforts to ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures.
• Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs.
• Provides oversight throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions to ensure successful deployment.
• Ensures appropriate guidance and mentoring is provided to other technical resources in the application development process.
• Oversees the technical management of…