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Technical Director - Platform Engineering
Location
United States
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$154.9K - $263.3K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Technical Director - Platform Engineering
H&R Block
Role Description The Technical Director, Platform Engineering is a senior, hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building, and evolving the foundational platforms that power engineering across the organization. This role leads the development of scalable, reliable, and secure platform capabilities, enabling product teams to deliver faster with higher quality. The role combines deep technical expertise with leadership—driving architecture, building core systems, establishing best practices, and mentoring engineering talent. This leader operates close to the code and systems, setting the technical bar while enabling organizational scale. Day to day, you'll... - Platform & Architecture Leadership - Design and evolve core platform capabilities (cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD, observability, data foundations). - Define and enforce architectural patterns for scalability, resilience, and performance. - Lead platform modernization efforts, including migration, standardization, and tooling. - Hands-On Engineering Leadership - Contribute directly to system design, critical code paths, and technical problem solving. - Guide engineering teams through complex technical decisions and tradeoffs. - Establish and review implementation standards, code quality, and system health. - Developer Experience & Enablement - Build internal platforms, tools, and frameworks to accelerate developer productivity. - Create reusable patterns and services to reduce duplication and improve consistency. - Drive improvements in engineering velocity, reliability, and cost efficiency. - Standards & Best Practices - Define and operationalize best practices across DevOps, SRE, security, and platform engineering. - Establish SLAs, SLOs, and operational excellence frameworks. - Ensure adherence to compliance, governance, and security requirements. - Mentorship & Talent Development - Mentor senior engineers and emerging leaders in architecture and engineering excellence. - Raise the technical bar across teams through coaching and example. - Influence hiring, onboarding, and capability development. - Cross-Functional Leadership - Partner with Product, Data, Security, and Infrastructure teams to align on platform strategy. - Act as a technical connector across teams, ensuring platform investments support business priorities. Qualifications - 10+ years in software engineering, with significant experience in platform engineering or infrastructure. - Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems. - Experience leading platform or infrastructure teams in cloud-first environments. Requirements - Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP). - Strong experience with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and automation. - Solid understanding of system design, distributed architectures, and reliability engineering. Benefits - Qualifying associates can enroll themselves and/or their eligible dependents in medical and prescription drug coverage. - Participate in the H&R Block Retirement Savings Plan (401(k) Plan). - Access to the Employee Assistance Program, (virtual) fitness center programs, and the associate discount program. - Automatically enrolled in Business Travel Accident Insurance. - Receive Associate Tax Prep benefit. Pay Range The pay range for this position is $154,900.00 - $263,300.00/Yr.
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