Lead, Platform Engineer

Guild Mortgage Company
, closing loans and opening doors since 1960. As a mortgage banking firm we are dedicated to serving the homeowner/buyer. Our goal is to provide affordable home financing for our customers, utilizing the best terms available while providing a level of professionalism and service unsurpassed in the lending industry.

Position Summary

The Lead, Platform Engineer provides senior execution-oriented technical leadership within Guild's Platform Engineering & Developer Experience organization. The role is responsible for translating platform capability objectives and architectural direction into effective engineering execution across the IT Factory platform ecosystem.

Operating primarily within IT Factory, the Lead, Platform Engineer combines broad technical competency with hands-on engineering leadership to improve execution effectiveness, implementation consistency, and engineering predictability across Platform Engineering initiatives. The role works across software engineering, platform engineering, Dev Ops, SRE, quality engineering, security, IAM, and related technical disciplines to identify execution constraints, remove technical blockers, reinforce implementation discipline, and improve engineering outcomes.

The Lead, Platform Engineer partners closely with Domain Architecture, Platform Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Platform Engineering leadership, Dev Ops, QA, Security, IAM, and adjacent delivery organizations to operationalize architectural direction, reinforce architectural continuity, and improve execution outcomes where upstream and downstream implementation dependencies exist. Within IT Factory, this role commonly fulfills the Technical Delivery Lead (TDL) responsibilities for platform engineering initiatives, providing execution leadership while remaining actively engaged in engineering implementation.

This role improves engineering effectiveness through technical leadership, implementation guidance, execution visibility, engineering mentorship, and disciplined engineering execution. The role does not own platform strategy, Enterprise Architecture governance, runtime platform operations, or personnel management responsibilities.

Compensation

This role is an exempt position with a targeted salary range of $144,001 to $190,000 annually.

Compensation at Guild is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to local and federal minimum wage requirements, education, level of experience, and applicant’s geographical location.

Essential Functions

• Lead engineering execution across Platform Engineering & Developer Experience initiatives by translating platform capability objectives into effective engineering implementation, reinforcing engineering discipline, and enabling successful execution across the IT Factory platform ecosystem.
• Translate architectural direction, platform capability objectives, and implementation sequencing into engineering execution while reinforcing architectural continuity, implementation consistency, and reusable engineering practices.
• Provide execution-oriented technical leadership across software engineering, platform engineering, Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), quality engineering, security, IAM, and related Factory capabilities to align implementation activities, resolve execution constraints, and improve engineering effectiveness where upstream and downstream implementation dependencies exist.
• Improve implementation effectiveness by identifying execution constraints, surfacing technical dependencies early, removing engineering blockers, reinforcing implementation sequencing, and improving execution visibility across Platform Engineering initiatives.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through active participation in engineering design, implementation guidance, troubleshooting, technical mentoring, and execution support.
• Partner closely with Domain Architecture, Platform Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and Platform Engineering leadership to operationalize architectural direction, align implementation with established architectural guidance, and reinforce long-term engineering continuity through…