Senior Director, Software Engineering

• →Drive the Engineering strategy and roadmap, aligned to business outcomes and product needs. 

• →Partner with Product to deliver product capabilities in a sustainable and scalable manner while ensuring clear architectural foundations are established. 

• →Establish and communicate priorities based on customer impact, risk reduction, cost efficiency, and developer productivity. 

• →Lead execution across multiple teams and programs with a focus on predictable delivery, high quality, and measurable outcomes. 

• →Build a culture of disciplined software engineering: strong planning, clear requirements, pragmatic architecture, and effective release management. 

• →Ensure high-quality platform APIs, service contracts, backward compatibility, and versioning strategies.

• →Partner with SRE/CloudOps to improve incident response, postmortems, operational runbooks, and reliability engineering practices. 

• →Ensure services are designed with security-by-default, compliance alignment, and strong governance. 

• →Work closely with Security teams to implement best practices for secure SDLC, vulnerability management, and identity models. 

• →Champion internal developer experience: self-service infrastructure, CI/CD modernization, test automation, and streamlined workflows. 

• →Reduce friction and cognitive load for product teams by building tooling, documentation, and work with platform for services or abstractions that scale. 

• →Ensure long-term maintainability by managing technical debt and enabling modernization. 

• →Lead, coach, and grow Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers, Staff+ Engineers, and technical leaders. 

• →Build a talent strategy: hiring, onboarding, retention, performance management, and succession planning. 

• →Create a culture of accountability, high trust, learning, and healthy engineering rigor. 

• →Partner with Product, Quality, UX/Design, Customer Success, Support, etc. teams to ensure platform implementations are understood for customer/real-world impact or needs. 

• →Communicate clearly to executives and stakeholders: Roadmap status, risk, tradeoffs, and technical strategy. 

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with 8+ years leading multi-team engineering organizations, preferably in the CPM/ERM industry.
• Demonstrated success leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational architecture teams in a modern SaaS/product company.
• Strong understanding of scalable distributed systems, cloud platforms, service design, and platform operating models.
• Experience driving engineering excellence: delivery, quality, reliability, security, and developer productivity.
• Proven ability to hire and grow high-performing engineering leaders and teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills; able to align executives and teams on strategy, tradeoffs, and sequencing.

• Experience with finance, enterprise SaaS, or highly regulated domains (SOX, SOC 2, FedRamp, GDPR).
• Prior OneStream or financial CPM Experience.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or large-scale platform modernization initiatives.
• Experience in high availability systems, and global scale operations.
• Strong technical judgment with a track record of pragmatic decisions and long-term architectural thinking.

• Experienced Systems thinker who is able to see the whole platform ecosystem, not just individual services.
• High-accountability leader to set clear expectations and delivers measurable results.
• Exceptional “Builder of builders” proven to develop leaders and multiplies impact through people.
• Highly skilled and proven pragmatic technologist.
• Proven track record for building platform capabilities that make product teams and customers successful.
• Exceptional operationally mature to drive reliability, security, and scalability as first-class outcomes.

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