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Staff Platform Engineer

Iconma Portal

Job Location:

Plano, TX - USA

Hourly Salary: USD 73 - 73

Posted: 22 October 2026 (Yesterday)

Application Deadline: 19 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Our Client a Financial company is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer for their Plano TX/Hybrid location.

Responsibilities:

Platform Engineering & Platform Capabilities:
Define the strategic direction and roadmap for platform engineering capabilities. Lead architecture and design of enterprise platforms products and shared services. Establish platform standards reference architectures and reusable patterns. Drive platform modernization and cloud-native adoption. Oversee reusable APIs SDKs frameworks and self-service capabilities. Align platform investments with business goals to improve scalability and developer productivity.
Intelligent Automation AI Enabled Engineering:
Define enterprise automation strategies that accelerate the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle. Lead development of intelligent automation platforms AI-powered capabilities and autonomous workflows. Establish standards and governance for automation-first engineering practices. Drive adoption of AI agents and agentic workflows across engineering organizations. Improve productivity through automation orchestration and AI technologies. Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to scale automation enterprise-wide.
AI Engineering & Agent Platforms:
Define the vision for AI-enabled engineering platforms and agent ecosystems. Lead adoption of LLMs agent orchestration frameworks MCP RAG and
Emerging AI technologies.
Establish standards and patterns for scalable AI-powered solutions. Evaluate emerging technologies and provide strategic recommendations. Guide intelligent developer experiences and autonomous engineering capabilities. Promote readiness for AI-native engineering practices.
Developer Experience & Self-Service Engineering:
Define and drive the vision for developer experience across engineering platforms. Lead design of self-service ecosystems that improve speed consistency and autonomy. Establish standards for onboarding development testing deployment and support. Sponsor reusable accelerators templates and platform capabilities. Drive platform adoption through enablement advocacy and feedback. Champion a developer-first culture across engineering organizations.
Platform Operations Reliability & Delivery Enablement:
Define strategies for platform reliability resilience scalability and performance. Lead delivery enablement CI/CD platforms observability and operational intelligence capabilities. Establish standards for IaC deployment automation and cloud operations. Drive monitoring anomaly detection automated remediation and intelligent workflows. Use metrics and platform intelligence to improve delivery and operations. Guide teams in reliability engineering and operational maturity.
Security Governance & Engineering Controls:
Define platform-wide governance security compliance and risk management strategies. Establish enterprise guardrails policy frameworks and secure-by-design principles. Drive automated compliance governance and security capabilities across platform ecosystems. Partner with security risk architecture and compliance stakeholders. Enable engineering agility through scalable governance frameworks and policy automation. Improve security posture through platform-driven controls and automation.

Requirements:

Enterprise Platform Engineering Strategy & Architecture
Platform Products Shared Services & Engineering Ecosystems
Platform Governance Standards & Reference Architectures
Developer Experience (DevEx) & Self-Service Platforms
Intelligent Automation & AIDLC Transformation
AI-Powered Engineering & Agentic Systems
AI Agents Agent Orchestration & Autonomous Workflows
Cloud-Native Architecture & Platform Modernization
DevOps CI/CD & Engineering Productivity Platforms
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence
Monitoring Observability & Platform Intelligence
Security Governance Compliance & Engineering Controls
LLM Workflows Prompt Engineering & Context Engineering
MCP RAG Enterprise AI Platforms & AI Integration
Technical Strategy Cross-Functional Leadership & Influence
The Staff Platform Engineer drives the strategy architecture and evolution of enterprise platform engineering capabilities that enable scalable secure and efficient software delivery. This role leads the design of platform products intelligent automation solutions self-service capabilities shared services and cloud-native engineering ecosystems that improve developer productivity and operational excellence at scale. Working across engineering architecture security product and technology leadership teams the Staff Platform Engineer establishes platform standards accelerates adoption of modern engineering practices and advances organizational maturity across the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AIDLC).
This role specializes in SDLC automation and intelligent engineering defining the strategic direction for reusable platform products shared services frameworks and self-service capabilities. Engineers drive enterprise adoption of platform engineering automation-first practices AI-powered solutions and agentic workflows to improve software delivery efficiency operational resilience developer productivity and organizational scalability across the AIDLC.
Bachelors degree in information technology Computer Science Computer Information Systems Software Engineering Mathematics Statistics or related field of study or equivalent relevant work experience
8-10 years of experience in platform engineering software engineering cloud engineering DevOps automation engineering or related technical disciplines. Proven experience designing implementing and scaling enterprise platform capabilities shared services automation solutions and developer productivity platforms and relevant experience working across areas of the Platform engineering.
Demonstrated experience leading large-scale technical initiatives and influencing engineering strategy across multiple teams.
Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures platform engineering automation DevOps and modern software delivery practices.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience leading enterprise platform transformations cloud modernization programs developer experience initiatives or AI-enabled engineering programs.
Experience defining technology strategy and influencing organization-wide engineering standards and roadmaps.
Relevant industry certifications in cloud platforms DevOps platform engineering software development automation AI/ML data engineering or related technologies are preferred.