Executive Director, Cloud Platform Engineering

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.

Build and Lead a Global Engineering Organization

• 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.

Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)

Drive Developer Experience, DevOps & Platform Adoption

• 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.

Provide Strategic Leadership, Resource Management & Operational Excellence

• 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.

Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)

Lead Multi-Cloud Operations, FinOps & Technology Transformation

• 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.

Cultivate Executive Stakeholder & Strategic Partner Relationships

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Pay Range:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $182,450.00 to $313,650.00. Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location.

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program as well as participation in the share incentive plan. In addition,

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with the possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance), wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, and many others. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices.

Michigan Applicants:

Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for employment must notify the company in writing of the need for an accommodation within 182 days after the date the person with a disability knew or reasonably should have known that an accommodation was needed.

Philadelphia Applicants:

Philadelphia's Fair Chance Hiring Law

Rhode Island Applicants:

The company is subject to chapters 29-38 of title 28 of the general laws of Rhode Island and is therefore covered by the state's workers' compensation law.