Executive Director, Cloud Platform Engineering
$182.45k - $313.65kFull-time
ESTÉE LAUDER COMPANIES
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world's leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company's products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.
Description The Executive Director, Cloud Platform Engineering is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and executing the enterprise Platform Engineering strategy across a complex multi-cloud environment. This leader will build, lead, and inspire a high-performing global organization responsible for Developer Experience, Internal Developer Portals, DevOps, CI/CD platforms, Infrastructure Automation, Cloud Enablement, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The role oversees distributed teams across multiple regions, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement while driving consistent platform capabilities and outcomes worldwide.
This role serves as a strategic partner to Infrastructure, Security, Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, Product Teams, and Business Leadership to deliver scalable, secure, cost-effective, and developer-centric platforms that accelerate innovation and business outcomes. The Executive Director will also establish and maintain strong partnerships with cloud service providers, strategic technology vendors, professional services organizations, and systems integrators to accelerate platform adoption, leverage industry best practices, and enable successful execution of enterprise transformation initiatives.
The Executive Director will drive the transformation from traditional infrastructure and operations models toward modern platform engineering practices, enabling self-service capabilities, engineering excellence, automation-first operations, and measurable improvements in software delivery performance, reliability, developer productivity, and cloud economics. This leader will champion a platform-as-a-product mindset, aligning technology investments with business priorities while ensuring the organization's engineering ecosystem remains scalable, resilient, secure, and financially optimized across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform environments.
Key Roles & Responsibilities Lead the Platform Engineering Capability
- Define and execute the enterprise Platform Engineering vision, strategy, roadmap, and operating model across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Serve as the executive leader and subject matter expert for Platform Engineering, establishing standards, best practices, governance, and compliance across DevOps, CI/CD, Developer Experience, Internal Developer Portals, Infrastructure Automation, SRE, and Cloud FinOps.
- Drive innovation and adoption of modern engineering practices that enhance developer productivity, platform reliability, and business outcomes.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a globally distributed organization of engineering leaders and technical professionals.
- Establish talent strategies, succession plans, and capability development programs to ensure the organization has the skills and capacity required for current and future business needs.
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, inclusion, engineering excellence, and high performance.
- Deliver self-service platform capabilities, developer portals, and standardized engineering services that accelerate software delivery and reduce complexity for development teams.
- Lead adoption of DevOps, Agile, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and SRE practices to improve engineering velocity, quality, and operational resilience.
- Continuously improve platform services through automation, standardization, and product-oriented delivery models.
- Partner with business leaders, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Product teams to align platform investments and resources with enterprise priorities.
- Manage capability area risks, dependencies, and strategic initiatives while ensuring effective execution and delivery.
- Establish and track key performance indicators that measure platform adoption, service reliability, engineering productivity, operational excellence, and business value.
- Oversee the evolution of cloud platform capabilities, ensuring secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective services across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Drive Cloud FinOps practices, financial accountability, and continuous optimization of cloud investments.
- Lead transformational initiatives focused on modernization, automation, reliability engineering, and emerging technology adoption.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leadership on platform engineering strategy, cloud transformation, and engineering productivity.
- Build and manage strategic partnerships with cloud providers, technology vendors, professional services organizations, and system integrators to accelerate innovation and platform maturity.
- Communicate vision, priorities, risks, progress, and outcomes to executive stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency across the enterprise.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience, including large-scale cloud and platform engineering organizations.
- 8+ years of direct people leadership experience managing managers and senior technical leaders.
- Proven experience building and leading Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Developer Productivity organizations in complex global enterprises.
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise cloud transformations and operating multi-cloud environments.
- Proven track record of driving large-scale organizational change and technology modernization initiatives.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior leadership and enterprise stakeholders.
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