Director of Platform Engineering

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About Us

Kyriba is a global fintech leader empowering CFOs and finance teams with cloud-based treasury payments risk management and working capital solutions. We serve 3000 customers worldwide managing $15 trillion in payments annually and helping businesses optimize liquidity performance across the enterprise.

Were on a mission to become the most sought-after cloud technology company globally. We think big innovate relentlessly and challenge the status quo every day. If you are a problem-solver whos ready to push boundaries and achieve more than you thought possible-youll find an exceptional career within an extraordinary business.

Location: Warsaw-hybrid
Type of contract: UoP

As Director of Engineering for Kyribas future Base Platform Infrastructure you will be responsible for setting the strategic technical direction and leading engineering execution of the foundational platform that underpins Kyribas product strategy and roadmap. This encompasses the Kubernetes platform networking persistence and middleware technologies that Kyribas engineering teams rely on to build and operate its products. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role. You will set the strategic direction for the base platform own the technical decisions that define its reliability scalability and security and lead a team of talented Platform and Software Engineers to build and operate it at enterprise scale. You will be the most senior technical voice for the base platform and are expected to lead from the front - designing solutions reviewing code and raising the engineering bar across the team. You will work closely with peer engineering leaders across R&D and with Product and Program Management counterparts but your primary accountability is to the quality reliability and evolution of the platform itself.

Technical Leadership and Strategic Direction

• Define and own the strategic technical direction of the base platform making principled decisions on platform design tooling selection and engineering patterns.

• Define and enforce engineering standards best practices and quality gates across the infrastructure codebase.

• Lead the design and implementation of core platform components including Kubernetes cluster configuration network topology storage and persistence layers and middleware systems.

• Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices across the team ensuring the platform is fully automated reproducible and auditable.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and approaches and make evidence-based recommendations on when and how to adopt them.

• Ensure the platform is built for resilience observability and operability from the outset with security embedded by design.

Platform Reliability and Operational Excellence

• Own the reliability performance and security posture of the base platform end-to-end.

• Define and uphold SLOs and SLIs for the platform and lead the team in continuously improving platform health.

• Drive a strong incident management and on-call culture ensuring the team can respond to and learn from production issues effectively.

• Ensure platform changes are delivered safely through robust CI/CD pipelines automated testing and progressive rollout strategies.

• Champion observability across the platform - ensuring logging metrics tracing and alerting are first-class engineering concerns.

Technical Communication and Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Clearly articulate technical strategy engineering decisions and trade-offs to both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders.

• Collaborate with peer engineering leaders across R&D to ensure the base platform meets the needs of the teams building on top of it.

• Engage with Product and Program Management to provide honest accurate technical input on feasibility complexity and delivery confidence - without being driven by programme pressure at the expense of engineering quality.

• Proactively surface technical risks and platform limitations early with well-reasoned proposals for how to address them

Required Qualifications and Expertise

• A Bachelor of Science (.) degree is essential preferably in a technical discipline such as Information Technology (IT) Software Engineering Computer Science or a closely related quantitative field. Technical Acumen (Cloud and DevOps):

• Proven Hands-On Engineering Experience within a Cloud Environment: The candidate must demonstrate substantive deep engineering experience designing and operating cloud-native or cloud-migrated platforms. This includes direct ownership of operational security reliability and cost engineering aspects of cloud infrastructure.

• Expert Knowledge of Modern Cloud Technologies: This is a core requirement and demands more than theoretical familiarity. The ideal candidate must have deep hands-on expertise across a modern cloud-native stack including:

• Container Orchestration: Expert-level Kubernetes engineering experience is mandatory including cluster architecture ecosystem tooling deployment patterns autoscaling and operational reliability at scale.

• Cloud Providers: Strong hands-on engineering experience with major public cloud platforms (AWS is preferred; Azure/GCP are not blockers) and their core services (compute storage networking database).

• DevOps and Automation: A deep command of GitOps principles and toolchains for continuous deployment and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with practical experience leveraging tools such as Git Terraform and CI/CD pipeline frameworks.
  
  Essential Leadership and Communication Skills

• Communication and Stakeholder Management:

• Strong Decision-Making and Technical Communication Skills: The Director of Engineering must be adept at making high-impact data-driven technical decisions swiftly communicating them clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and mediating technical disagreements constructively even under ambiguity and pressure. Execution and Organisational Capability:

• The Capacity to Lead Effectively in a Fast-Paced Setting while Balancing Multiple Competing Technical Priorities: The environment is dynamic and requires an engineering leader who is resilient adaptable and capable of maintaining technical rigour and strategic focus simultaneously. The candidate must be able to triage and prioritise a high volume of concurrent engineering challenges to ensure critical platform milestones are delivered on time to the required quality and within scope.

Our Values Guide Everything We Do

• Think Big & Constantly Innovate: We have the confidence to think big embrace change challenge the status quo and continuously evolve - incorporating new technologies and driving industry progress.

• Put our Customers Outcomes First: We are passionate about delivering the highest value for our customers and supporting them with end-to-end care throughout their journey with us.

• Act with Integrity: Integrity is at the heart of everything we do. We take personal responsibility for our actions own our decisions and honour each others contributions. We empower each other through honesty respect trust and transparency.

• Work as One Team: We are driven by our common goals and share in each others successes and failures learning and working together as a team where everyone can bring their best selves.

• Strive for Excellence while Having Fun: We enjoy tackling new challenges together and revel in continuous improvement as we deliver with ultimate professionalism the very best for our customers while exceeding our own expectations.

At Kyriba we value pay transparency and fairness.

Kyriba also offers a comprehensive compensation package including a range of health welfare and wellbeing benefits designed to support both your professional and personal life.

Kyriba believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex racecreed color gender religion marital status domestic partner status age national origin or ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition sexual orientation pregnancy military or veteran status citizenship and genetic information.

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