Platform Engineering Lead Core Services (remote)

About Johnson Controls

At Johnson Controls we transform the environments where people live work learn and play. From optimizing building performance to improving safety and enhancing comfort we drive the outcomes that matter most. Dedicated to protecting the environment we deliver our promise in industries such as healthcare education data centers and manufacturing. With a global team of 100000 experts in more than 150 countries and over 130 years of innovation we are the power behind our customers mission.

About Security Access Control Business

When Fortune 500 corporations government customers or any other enterprise applications concerned with critical security issues need a reliable solution in their day to day operations more often than not they turn to Johnson Controls and its security and event management technologies currently installed in thousands of facilities worldwide. Johnson Controls has built a solid reputation in the security industry as an innovator of security and event management technologies. With its continuous investment in R&D and the ability to leverage new technologies Johnson Controls has reached technological excellence.

What you will do

Johnson Controls is seeking a Platform Engineering Lead - Core this role you will design develop and guide the implementation of the foundational platform services that power the One Security Platform (OSP).These services will be the backbone for multiple solutions across Access Control Video Management Systems (VMS) Alarm & Sensor Integration AI analytics and other physical security domains. To be successful you will need deep technical expertise in enterprise-scale platform services strong leadership in guiding engineers and hands-on skills in architecture and coding. This is a remote position for candidates located in the US.

How you will do it

Platform Architecture & Design

• Lead the design and implementation of core platform components including:

• Identity & Access Management (SSO RBAC MFA)

• API Gateway & developer-facing APIs

• Event Bus & Messaging Framework (e.g. Kafka MQTT)

• Audit Logging & Compliance Services

• Multi-tenancy & Tenant Isolation Services

• Notification & Alerting Framework

• Licensing & Entitlement Management

• Define and enforce architecture principles coding standards and design patterns for core services.

• Ensure platform scalability security and high availability in cloud on-prem and hybrid environments.

Technical Leadership

• Act as the subject matter expert for core services and mentor engineers on the team.

• Collaborate with Solution Architects Integration Teams and Application Teams to ensure core services meet internal and partner needs.

• Review and approve high-level designs technical specs and major code changes.

• Provide technical oversight during sprints to ensure timely high-quality delivery.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with the Director of Platform Services to align roadmap priorities with platform strategy.

• Engage with Security Engineering to ensure compliance with SOC2 ISO27001 GDPR and other standards.

• Partner with DevOps to optimize CI/CD pipelines monitoring and incident response for platform services.

• Collaborate with Workflow & Automation teams to ensure seamless orchestration with core APIs.

Execution & Delivery

• Break down complex platform features into deliverable tasks for the engineering team.

• Monitor project progress identify risks and proactively address bottlenecks.

• Ensure unit integration and performance testing are implemented for all core services.

• Lead technical design sessions and architecture reviews.

What you will need
Required

• Minimum Bachelors degree in a technical or engineering related field.

• 8 years of software engineering experience with 3 years in a technical lead or architect role.

• Proven expertise in designing and implementing enterprise-grade core services for multi-product or multi-tenant platforms.

• API-first design principles

• Event-driven architectures (Kafka MQTT AMQP)

• Identity & Access Management protocols (OAuth2 OpenID Connect SAML)

• RBAC MFA and security best practices

• Multi-tenancy architecture patterns

• Experience with cloud-native architectures (Azure AWS or GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).

• Proficiency in at least one enterprise-grade backend language.

• Able to travel 5-10%.

Preferred

• Experience integrating with workflow/orchestration tools (e.g. n8n Zapier Node-RED).

• Familiarity with physical security products (Access Control VMS Alarm Systems).

• Experience with video streaming protocols (RTSP WebRTC) or real-time event processing.

• Exposure to DevOps practices and monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK).

• Experience building SDKs or developer enablement tools.

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