Chief Engineering Platform Manager

About our company

We are a leading provider of strategic consulting, technology, and managed services for insurance organizations.

Our team helps insurers, reinsurers, brokers, and MGAs drive efficiency, innovation, and profitable growth by delivering tailored solutions that enable agility and scalability in the evolving insurance ecosystem.

We are seeking a seasoned Chief Engineering Platform Manager to orchestrate complex platform engineering initiatives across multiple development teams.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for connecting cross-functional pods, driving execution excellence, and ensuring seamless delivery of critical platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Program Planning & Execution
• Manage multiple concurrent platform workstreams across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams
• Develop comprehensive program roadmaps with clear milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies
• Drive end-to-end delivery cycles from conception through production deployment and post-launch monitoring
• Establish and maintain program governance frameworks, including status reporting and escalation procedures

Achieving Agile Delivery Excellence

• Manage sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release planning across multiple scrum teams
• Facilitate cross-team ceremonies including program increment planning, retrospectives, and dependency mapping sessions
• Optimize delivery velocity through continuous process improvement and bottleneck identification
• Implement and maintain agile metrics and reporting dashboards for leadership visibility

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate seamlessly across autonomous development pods, ensuring alignment on shared objectives and deliverables
• Manage complex stakeholder ecosystems including engineering leadership, product managers, architects, and business partners
• Facilitate technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and integration planning sessions
• Drive resolution of cross-team dependencies, conflicts, and resource allocation challenges

Risk Management & Communication

• Proactively identify program risks, dependencies, and blockers, developing mitigation strategies and contingency plans
• Maintain comprehensive program documentation including technical specifications, decision logs, and status reports
• Communicate program status, risks, and achievements to executive leadership and key stakeholders
• Escalate critical issues and coordinate rapid response efforts when needed

Platform Strategy & Technical Excellence

• Collaborate with engineering leadership to define platform architecture patterns and development standards
• Drive adoption of best practices for CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and operational excellence
• Coordinate platform modernization initiatives including cloud migrations, service decomposition, and technology upgrades
• Support technical debt reduction efforts and platform scalability improvements

Required Skills

• 8-12 years of experience in technical program management within software engineering environments
• Proven track record managing large-scale platform or infrastructure programs with multiple engineering teams
• Deep expertise with agile methodologies, particularly SAFe, Scrum of Scrums, or similar scaled agile frameworks
• History of successfully delivering complex technical programs on time and within scope

Desired Qualifications

• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in software development, system architecture, or platform engineering
• Proficiency with program management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Monday.com, etc.) and agile planning platforms
• Understanding of modern development practices including CI/CD, microservices, cloud platforms, and DevOps methodologies
• Experience with metrics and analytics tools for tracking development velocity and program health

Leadership & Communication Skills

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with ability to influence without authority across all organizational levels
• Strong facilitation and conflict resolution abilities in technical and cross-functional environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting to executive audiences
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus and drive decision-making in complex, matrixed organizations