Senior Director of Platform Engineering

Join to apply for the Senior Director of Platform Engineering role at Modus Create
.

As Senior Director, you'll guide and empower a global team of Platform Engineering Directors and practitioners across tools, frameworks, platforms, and cloud providers. You'll bring deep Dev Ops and Cloud Infrastructure development experience, a consulting mindset, and a strong commitment to improve both our craft and our client outcomes.

This role reports to a VP of Product Engineering Services and works cross‑functionally with Growth, Operations, and Partnerships. You'll play a key role in creating a culture where people feel seen, supported, and motivated to do their best work.

• Build and scale a high‑performing, distributed platform engineering team through strong mentorship and inclusive leadership.
• Define what great looks like—through reusable runbooks, technical standards, and nurturing a culture grounded in quality, belonging, and continuous learning.

• Help clients modernize platforms, launch new infrastructure, and make better innovation investment decisions.
• Ensure every solution is aligned with client goals and drives measurable value, while remaining empathetic to real‑world user needs and impact.

• Own and evolve our delivery frameworks, platform engineering standards, and team operations.
• Champion cloud‑native development, Dev Ops and SRE best practices, and scalable architecture, balancing technical vision with affinity with both the people building and the people using the product.

• Partner with Sales, Partnerships, and Client Executives to shape and win new opportunities.
• Translate client needs into technical solutions, delivery plans, and estimates.
• Lead development of proposals, estimation, and pre‑sales architecture discussions.
• Develop reusable solution assets, infrastructure templates and case studies for future engagements.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with key client stakeholders through authenticity, curiosity, and a shared commitment to outcomes.

• Collaborate with leaders in product, security, data, and AI to deliver integrated client solutions.
• Act as a connector between technical teams, sales teams, and client stakeholders, ensuring clarity, collaboration, and a shared sense of purpose.

• Create clear, equitable career paths and performance frameworks for Platform Engineering Directors and their teams.
• Foster a culture of feedback, curiosity, and growth, through psychologically safe and collaborative environment, where everyone feels their voice is heard, their development is supported, and continuous improvement is encouraged.

• 15+ years in Platform Engineering/Dev Ops, with 7+ in senior engineering leadership—ideally in consulting or high‑growth tech environments.
• A clear point of view on modern architecture, engineering best‑practices, and agile delivery.
• Proven experience scaling distributed global teams and platform engineering operations.
• Strong pre‑sales and delivery experience—able to shape winning proposals and roadmaps.
• A customer‑first mindset and passion for solving complex problems with elegant, scalable solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in cross‑functional and cross‑cultural environments.
• A history of growing leaders and fostering high‑trust, high‑performance teams—while supporting a culture of empathy, accountability, and shared success.

Founded in 2011, Modus is a global, fully remote team of world‑class technologists who thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment. We support organizations on their digital transformation journey through strategic consulting and full lifecycle product development, partnering with industry leaders including Atlassian, Git Hub and AWS. Recognized as one of the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies for nine years and a top remote work company by Flex Jobs, we have helped some of the world's largest brands deliver powerful digital experiences.

We combine boutique expertise with…