Senior Director, Platform Engineering

Altana Technologies, Inc.

Washington, DC

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SKILLS

Architectural Services, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Best Practices, Caching, Capacity Management, Cloud Computing, Coaching, Code Reviews, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Integration, Customer/Client Research, Data Science, High Availability, Incident Management, Incident Response, Investment Strategy, Leadership, Machine Tool, Open Source, Operational Strategy, Performance Management, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Product Engineering, Production Systems, Programming Tools, Public/Media/Press/Analyst Relations, Risk Management, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Strategic Analysis, Strategic Planning, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Team Lead/Manager, Technical Strategy, Test Patterns, Test Strategy, Time Management, Vendor/Supplier Relations

LOCATION

Washington, DC

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1 day ago

## **Your Responsibilities** ### **Technical Strategy and Execution** - Define and own a clear, multi-year technical strategy for Platform Engineering, ensuring the team stays focused on the highest-leverage work while advancing long-term architectural goals. - Set the reference architecture and standards for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer tooling, balancing immediate operational needs against strategic investment. - Make and guide key decisions on scalability, performance, security, and cost, working closely with engineers on the hardest problems rather than from a distance. - Lead build-vs-buy and platform investment decisions, including which tools, vendors, and open-source technologies to adopt across the SDLC. ### **Developer Experience and Acceleration** - Own the Developer Acceleration program: instrument and continuously improve developer workflows, driving measurable gains in build times, PR cycle time, flaky-test rate, and deployment frequency (DORA / SPACE). - Drive an AI-first, agent-first transformation of the software development lifecycle making AI coding harnesses and agents reliable, governed, first-class participants in how Altana writes, reviews, tests, and ships code. - Set strategy for integrating AI-assisted development tools and agentic coding harnesses (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and agent frameworks) into CI/CD, code review, local development, and release pipelines at scale. - Establish how AI-assisted and agent-generated code is reviewed, tested, secured, and governed including LLM-aware testing strategies, evaluation and guardrails, and the supporting context engineering and tooling that make agents effective in a large monorepo. - Treat the engineering organization as your customer: gather requirements from application teams, translate vague friction into well-scoped platform work, and prove impact through before/after measurement. - Evolve our monorepo strategy code organization, dependency management, build caching, and testing patterns so it works consistently across our multi-cloud and compliance-constrained environments. ### **Operational Excellence** - Establish and continuously improve best practices for monitoring, incident response, automation, and performance optimization across production and the delivery pipeline. - Drive a culture of ownership, resilience, and accountability to ensure high availability, performance, and security in our production environments. - Own reliability and cost across cloud infrastructure; conduct regular post-incident reviews and capacity planning to anticipate and mitigate risk before it reaches customers. ### **Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement** - Partner across product, engineering, security, data science, and commercial teams to align platform investment with business objectives. - Communicate trade-offs, constraints, and roadmap clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and represent Platform Engineering to senior leadership. - Manage relationships with external vendors and partners, including cloud providers and tooling vendors. ### **Team Leadership and Development** - Lead, coach, and inspire a multidisciplinary organization of engineers and managers across software, infrastructure, reliability, and developer tooling. - Manage distributed teams across multiple time zones, maintaining alignment and a cohesive culture in a remote-friendly environment. - Recruit top-tier talent and act as a top-notch recruiter yourself; foster professional development, recognize outstanding performance, and address underperformance constructively and in a timely way. At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and in ividual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.

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