Senior Director of Platform Engineering

Join Us as Our Next Senior Director Platform Engineering

Remote | Full-Time

Lead the Future of Platform Engineering at Modus Create

As Senior Director of Platform Engineering, you’ll lead and grow our global platform engineering capability—supporting team development, setting the bar for technical excellence, and enabling business-critical outcomes across industries like healthcare, financial services, life sciences, and automotive.

We’re looking for a strategic, collaborative and hands-on leader who blends technical depth with consultative finesse—someone who can guide clients through transformation, nurture high-performing, inclusive teams, and evolve how software is designed, delivered, and scaled.

What You’ll Do

As Senior Director, you’ll guide and empower a global team of Platform Engineering Directors and practitioners across tools, frameworks, platforms, and cloud providers. You’ll bring deep DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure development experience, a consulting mindset, and a strong commitment to improve both our craft and our client outcomes.

This role reports to a VP of Product Engineering Services and works cross-functionally with Growth, Operations, and Partnerships. You'll play a key role in creating a culture where people feel seen, supported, and motivated to do their best work.

Lead & Inspire Engineering Excellence

• Build and scale a high-performing, distributed platform engineering team through strong mentorship and inclusive leadership.
  
  
• Define what great looks like—through reusable runbooks, technical standards, and nurturing a culture grounded in quality, belonging, and continuous learning.

Deliver Business Outcomes, Not Just Code

• Help clients modernize platforms, launch new infrastructure, and make better innovation investment decisions.
  
  
• Ensure every solution is aligned with client goals and drives measurable value, while remaining empathetic to real-world user needs and impact.

Drive Technical Strategy & Practice Development

• Own and evolve our delivery frameworks, platform engineering standards, and team operations.
  
  
• Champion cloud-native development, DevOps and SRE best practices, and scalable architecture, balancing technical vision with affinity with both the people building and the people using the product.

Business Development & Sales Support

• Partner with Sales, Partnerships, and Client Executives to shape and win new opportunities.
  
  
• Translate client needs into technical solutions, delivery plans, and estimates.
  
  
• Lead development of proposals, estimation, and pre-sales architecture discussions.
  
  
• Develop reusable solution assets, infrastructure templates and case studies for future engagements.
  
  
• Build trusted advisor relationships with key client stakeholders through authenticity, curiosity, and a shared commitment to outcomes.

Operate Cross-Functionally

• Collaborate with leaders in product, security, data, and AI to deliver integrated client solutions.
  
  
• Act as a connector between technical teams, sales teams, and client stakeholders, ensuring clarity, collaboration, and a shared sense of purpose.

Build a Learning Culture

• Create clear, equitable career paths and performance frameworks for Platform Engineering Directors and their teams.
• Foster a culture of feedback, curiosity, and growth, through psychologically safe and collaborative environment, where everyone feels their voice is heard, their development is supported, and continuous improvement is encouraged

What Sets You Apart

• 15+ years in Platform Engineering/DevOps, with 7+ in senior engineering leadership—ideally in consulting or high-growth tech environments.
  
  
• A clear point of view on modern architecture, engineering best-practices, and agile delivery.
  
  
• Proven experience scaling distributed global teams and platform engineering operations.
  
  
• Strong pre-sales and delivery experience—able to shape winning proposals and roadmaps.
  
  
• A customer-first mindset and passion for solving complex problems with elegant, scalable solutions.
  
  
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional and cross-cultural environments.
  
  
• A history of growing leaders and fostering high-trust, high-performance teams—while supporting a culture of empathy, accountability, and shared success.

Founded in 2011, Modus is a global, fully remote team of world-class technologists who thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment. We were fully remote before it was cool! We support organizations on their digital transformation journey through strategic consulting and full lifecycle product development, partnering with industry leaders including Atlassian, GitHub and AWS. Recognized as one of the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies for nine years and a top remote work company by FlexJobs, we have helped some of the world’s largest brands deliver powerful digital experiences.

We combine boutique expertise with enterprise-scale capabilities, helping organizations drive customer engagement, enhance retention, and maximize long-term value. As an award-winning Atlassian partner, we enable businesses to build customer-centric products that foster lasting relationships and adoption.

Perks of working with us:

• Remote work with flexible working hours
• Modus Global Office Programme:for when you want to get out of your home, we offer on-demand access to private offices, meeting rooms, coworking spaces and business lounges in locations in over 120 countries. 
• Employee Referral Program 
• Client Referral Program 
• Travel according to client or team needs
• The chance to work side-by-side with thought leaders in emerging tech
• Access to more than 12,000 courses with a licensed Coursera account.
• Possibility to obtain paid certification/courses if they align with company goals and are relevant to the employee's role

Additional benefits might apply contingent on your location.

Why Modus Create

Modus Create is a global consulting firm that helps organizations modernize their platforms, products, and processes. From open-source roots to enterprise transformation, we bring together strategy, design, engineering, and AI to build what’s next.

• 100% remote since day one
  
  
• Named a top company for remote work by FlexJobs and Inc.
  
  
• Trusted by leading brands across the globe
  
  
• Culture of autonomy, mastery, inclusion and continuous learning
  
  

By joining our team, you’ll be part of a high-performing group that leverages each other’s strengths and celebrates every success together. Apply now and show us you have what it takes to drive impactful platform engineering strategies with Modus Create!