Platform Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer

Our client, a financial company, is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer for their Plano, TX/Hybrid location.

Platform Engineering & Platform Capabilities:

• Define the strategic direction and roadmap for platform engineering capabilities. Lead architecture and design of enterprise platforms, products, and shared services. Establish platform standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns. Drive platform modernization and cloud-native adoption. Oversee reusable APIs, SDKs, frameworks, and self-service capabilities. Align platform investments with business goals to improve scalability and developer productivity.
• Intelligent Automation, AI Enabled Engineering:
• Define enterprise automation strategies that accelerate the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle. Lead development of intelligent automation platforms, AI-powered capabilities, and autonomous workflows. Establish standards and governance for automation-first engineering practices. Drive adoption of AI agents and agentic workflows across engineering organizations. Improve productivity through automation, orchestration, and AI technologies. Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to scale automation enterprise-wide.
• AI Engineering & Agent Platforms:
• Define the vision for AI-enabled engineering platforms and agent ecosystems. Lead adoption of LLMs, agent orchestration frameworks, MCP, RAG, and emerging AI technologies. Establish standards and patterns for scalable AI-powered solutions. Evaluate emerging technologies and provide strategic recommendations. Guide intelligent developer experiences and autonomous engineering capabilities. Promote readiness for AI-native engineering practices.
• Developer Experience & Self-Service Engineering:
• Define and drive the vision for developer experience across engineering platforms. Lead design of self-service ecosystems that improve speed, consistency, and autonomy. Establish standards for onboarding, development, testing, deployment, and support. Sponsor reusable accelerators, templates, and platform capabilities. Drive platform adoption through enablement, advocacy, and feedback. Champion a developer-first culture across engineering organizations.
• Platform Operations, Reliability & Delivery Enablement:
• Define strategies for platform reliability, resilience, scalability, and performance. Lead delivery enablement, CI/CD platforms, observability, and operational intelligence capabilities. Establish standards for IaC, deployment automation, and cloud operations. Drive monitoring, anomaly detection, automated remediation, and intelligent workflows. Use metrics and platform intelligence to improve delivery and operations. Guide teams in reliability engineering and operational maturity.
• Security, Governance & Engineering Controls:
• Define platform-wide governance, security, compliance, and risk management strategies. Establish enterprise guardrails, policy frameworks, and secure-by-design principles. Drive automated compliance, governance, and security capabilities across platform ecosystems. Partner with security, risk, architecture, and compliance stakeholders. Enable engineering agility through scalable governance frameworks and policy automation. Improve security posture through platform-driven controls and automation.

• Enterprise Platform Engineering Strategy & Architecture
• Platform Products, Shared Services & Engineering Ecosystems
• Platform Governance, Standards & Reference Architectures
• Developer Experience (Dev Ex) & Self-Service Platforms
• Intelligent Automation & AIDLC Transformation
• AI-Powered Engineering & Agentic Systems
• AI Agents, Agent Orchestration & Autonomous Workflows
• Cloud-Native Architecture & Platform Modernization
• Dev Ops, CI/CD & Engineering Productivity Platforms
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence
• Monitoring, Observability & Platform Intelligence
• Security, Governance, Compliance & Engineering Controls
• LLM Workflows, Prompt Engineering & Context Engineering
• MCP, RAG, Enterprise AI Platforms & AI Integration
• Technical Strategy, Cross-Functional Leadership & Influence
• The Staff Platform Engineer drives the strategy,…