• Lead, mentor, and grow global, distributed engineering teams, including tech leads, engineers and potential managers. • Build a high-performance engineering culture centered on ownership, accountability, quality, and continuous improvement. • Provide regular coaching, feedback, performance evaluations, and career development guidance. • Drive effective hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and retention strategies. • Own the technical strategy and long-term vision for platform engineering. • Partner closely with architects and tech leads to define platform standards, architectural patterns, and best practices. • Ensure the platform serves as a strong foundation enabling rapid and safe product innovation. • Stay sufficiently hands-on to understand the complexity and risk of initiatives and guide execution and delivery. • Act as a key partner to Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and other cross-functional leaders.