Overview:
We don’t simply hire employees. We invest in them. When you work at Chatham, we empower you — offering professional development opportunities to help you grow in your career, no matter if you've been here for five months or 15 years. Chatham has worked hard to create a distinct work environment that values people, teamwork, integrity, and client service. You will have immediate opportunities to partner with talented subject matter experts, work on complex projects, and contribute to the value Chatham delivers every day.
As our Director of Platform Engineering, you will report to the Head of Engineering and play a critical leadership role in shaping and delivering our platform strategy. You will be responsible for creating and executing a compelling vision for a modern internal developer platform that accelerates product development, drives operational excellence, and aligns deeply with Chatham’s business priorities. You will lead existing, high-performing Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams, cultivating a product mindset and a culture of accountability, innovation, and service.
In this role you will:
- Define and drive platform engineering strategy aligned with Chatham’s business and technology goals.
- Lead Cloud, DevOps, and SRE teams to deliver secure, scalable, and cost-effective platform capabilities.
- Champion a product mindset—designing internal tools and services that empower developer autonomy and speed.
- Build and mentor a high-performing, inclusive engineering organization.
- Improve system reliability through clear SLOs, automation, and resilient architecture.
- Advance developer experience through intuitive self-service infrastructure and seamless CI/CD.
- Track and improve engineering productivity using KPIs and DORA metrics.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product and security teams to align platform delivery with enterprise priorities.
Your impact:
- Foster a High-Performance Engineering Culture through strong leadership, talent development, and clarity of ownership across cloud, DevOps, and SRE functions.
- Align Platform Investment with Business Strategy by translating enterprise goals into measurable platform outcomes.
- Strengthen Security and Compliance Posture by embedding secure-by-design principles into platform tooling and automation.
- Accelerate Product Delivery by enabling engineering teams with a scalable, self-service platform that reduces time-to-market and eliminates friction in CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, and environment management.
- Improve System Reliability & Resilience through robust SRE practices, incident automation, and proactive reliability engineering.
- Reduce Cloud Infrastructure Costs via efficient architecture, resource optimization, and FinOps accountability.
Contributors to your success:
- 10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including leading Cloud, DevOps, or SRE functions.
- Proven track record building and scaling internal platforms or platform engineering functions in modern cloud environments.
- Expertise in cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred), Container Orchestration, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability.
- Strong understanding of site reliability principles, SLAs/SLIs/SLOs, and operational excellence.
- Exceptional ability to influence and collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
- Passionate about developer experience, engineering efficiency, and building systems that scale.
- Actively follows and consumes industry standards and trends
- Preferred: Experience delivering platform capabilities in a regulated industry or financial services context, ideally with SOC1 & SOC2 compliance expertise.
About Chatham Financial:
Chatham Financial delivers financial risk management advisory and technology solutions to organizations across industries and around the world by helping companies maximize value in the capital markets. At Chatham, we help businesses improve their bottom lines. But that’s not the only place we’re committed to making an impact. We look beyond our clients, too — enhancing the markets where we work, supporting the clients we partner with, helping our employees thrive, and giving back to the world at large. And when you join Chatham, you’re an integral part of this equation, enabling us to live this purpose-driven philosophy every day.
Chatham Financial is an equal opportunity employer.
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What We Do
Chatham Financial is the largest independent financial risk management advisory and technology firm. A leader in debt and derivative solutions, Chatham provides clients with access to in-depth knowledge, innovative tools, and an incomparable team of over 600 employees to help mitigate risks associated with interest rate, foreign currency, and commodity exposures. Founded in 1991, Chatham serves more than 3,000 companies across a wide range of industries — handling over $750 billion in transaction volume annually and helping businesses maximize their value in the capital markets, every day. To learn more, visit chathamfinancial.com.
Financial risk management advisory | Interest rate, foreign currency, and commodity hedging | Hedging execution and processing | Hedge accounting | Derivative and debt valuation | Derivatives regulatory compliance | ISDA review and negotiation | Defeasance and yield maintenance | Debt and derivatives analytics | Financial risk management technology
