Sr Director - Cloud Platform

Posted: Saturday, 31 May 2025
Valid Thru: Monday, 30 June 2025
Index Requested on: 05/31/2025 07:27:03
Indexed on: 05/31/2025 07:27:03

Location: Springfield, MO, 65801, US

Industry: Advertising and Public Relations
Occupational Category: 13-0000.00 - Business and Financial Operations
Type of Employment: FULL_TIME

Maximus is hiring!

Description:

Description & Requirements

Senior Director -Cloud Platform Engineering is responsible for the delivery of our next generation of products and services. As a leader on our Cloud Services team, we will help drive our engineering culture by designing, building, and evangelizing technical solutions that enable new business capabilities on our cloud-based, distributed computer environment. He has experience and exceptional knowledge in designing and developing highly-scalable solutions in a cloud environment. Have good communication skills and be comfortable providing technical leadership to multiple development teams and business stakeholders.

Background in directly managing geographically distributed technical teams, working with highly demanding product executive management and collaborating with non-technical business operations team. Background in financial management, including capital budget management, forecasting, and operating budgeting.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead and manage a high performance team that thrives in an agile development and DevOps environment.

- Lead design, implementation, governance and support of key technology platforms that support our digital transformation.

- Partner with the business, understand objectives and current challenges to assist in designing solutions.

- Closely collaborate with technology and business partners across the firm to scale existing products to new lines of business while also advancing our digital agenda through automation and straight through processing.

- Utilize best in class technology solutions to develop compelling features Clients will love that also advance strategic agendas, like ongoing application modernization, retirement of legacy platforms, cross-enterprise scaling, cloud migration, and move towards DevOps.

- Manage capital and operating budgets and resource forecasts.

- Provide guidance on procurement and contract activities.

- Develop and manage relationships and maintain healthy collaboration with key external technology partners and 3rd party vendors.

- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and partners in product management, design, data analytics, and QA to maximize the teams' success.

- Own the resolution of production problems and efforts to track and remediate issues.

- Use extensive management skills and experience to develop technical and managerial leadership skills and create a vibrant culture of mutual support and motivation.

- Foster an environment of experimentation and continual improvement.

- Be or become an expert in one or more of the following platforms: Amazon AWS, Pivotal, etc.

- Ensure the appropriate security and privacy measures are implemented on technology solutions to protect Company data from intentional or accidental misuse.

- Collaborate and provide technical input to enterprise MAXIMUS organizations on M& A activities, business development, proposal submissions, etc.

Lead and manage a high-performance team that thrives in an agile development and DevOps environment.

• - Lead design, implementation, governance, and support of key technology platforms that support our digital transformation.

• Partner with the business, understand objectives and current challenges to assist in designing solutions.

• Utilize best in class technology solutions to develop compelling features Clients will love that also advance strategic agendas, like ongoing application modernization, retirement of legacy platforms, cross-enterprise scaling, cloud migration, and move towards DevOps.

• Manage capital and operating budgets and resource forecasts. Provide guidance on procurement and contract activities.

• Provide guidance on procurement and contract activities.

• Develop and manage relationships and maintain healthy collaboration with key external technology partners and 3rd party vendorsBuild strong relationships with stakeholders and partners in product management, design, data analytics, and QA to maximize the teams' success.

• - Own the resolution of production problems and efforts to track and remediate issues.

• - Use extensive management skills and experience to develop technical and managerial leadership skills and create a vibrant culture of mutual support and motivation.

• - Foster an environment of experimentation and continual improvement.

• - Be or become an expert in one or more of the following platforms: Amazon AWS, Pivotal, etc.

- Ensure the appropriate security and privacy measures are implemented on technology solutions to protect Company data from intentional or accidental misuse.

• - Collaborate and provide technical input to enterprise MAXIMUS organizations on M& A activities, business development, proposal submissions, etc.



• Own the resolution of production problems and efforts to track and remediate issues.

• Using extensive management skills and experience to develop technical and managerial leadership skills and create a vibrant culture of mutual support and motivation. Foster an environment of experimentation and continual improvement.

• Demonstrated "servant leader" mentality adept at maximizing team performance in an engineering setting, including coaching and consulting.

• Design, implementation, governance and support of key technology platforms that support our digital transformation.

• Act as an internal consultant and mentor to more junior staff. Provide task-level leadership, guidance, and direction.

• Ensure the appropriate security and privacy measures are implemented on technology solutions to protect Company data from intentional or accidental misuse.

• Pursue Operational Excellence in all endeavors, striving on a routine basis to identify and implement continuous process improvements.

• Closely collaborate with technology and business partners across the firm to scale existing products to new lines of business while also advancing our digital agenda through automation and straight through processing.

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and partners in product management, design, data analytics, and QA to maximize the teams' success.

• Develop and manage relationships and maintain healthy collaboration with key external technology partners and 3rd party vendors.

• Experience with good engineering practices and processes, like test driven development, continuous integration and build/test/release automation.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree required, preferred field of study Computer Science or related field.

- Minimum 5 years of people management experience, 12 years of experience in the related field.

- Demonstrated leadership building out SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions.

- Strong background in driving large technical projects from conception to rollout/production.

- Ability to use "just enough" metrics to make data-driven decisions without losing flexibility.

- Experience working in multi-team agile development programs.

- Knowledge of cutting edge technologies and toolkits.

- At least 5 years of people management experience with both on shore direct reports and offshore vendor management.

- At least 5 years of experience in government Healthcare (Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP) or other heavily-regulated industry.

- At least 7 years of experience with running medium to large/complex projects with multiple dependencies using Agile and DevOps principles from develop through to production.

- Interest in being actively involved in development and ideation of new features and platforms.

- Experience developing organizational and product KPI's.

- Broad and deep knowledge of technology and trends.

- Experience with financial management and budgeting processes, contracting and procurement processes, and RFP and proposal processes.

- Strong track-record of building and leading platform engineering team focused on Infrastructure platform and support.

- Experience working with software such as PCF, Apigee, Solace Message brokers, App Dynamics, Splunk, Vault.

- Experience deploying platform infrastructure both on public cloud and private cloud.

- Familiarity with micro-service architecture and experience in developing RESTful services is a plus.

- Knowledge of Cloud platform like AWS, GCP, Terraform, CI/CD .

- Familiarity with systems management tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible).

- Experience in modern build and release practices, Agile, and DevOps.

Strong Knowledge of Cloud platforms like AWS, Terraform, CI/CD .

• Bachelor's degree required, preferred field of study Computer Science or related field.

• Minimum 5 years of people management experience, 12 years of experience in the related field.

• Demonstrated leadership building out SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions.

• Strong background in driving large technical projects from conception to rollout/production.Ability to use "just enough" metrics to make data-driven decisions without losing flexibility.

• Experience working in multi-team agile development programs.

• Knowledge of the latest trends in Cloud and AI technologies

• At least 5 years of people management experience with both on shore direct reports and offshore vendor management.

• At least 5 years of experience in government Healthcare (Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP) or other heavily regulated industry.

• At least 7 years of experience with running medium to large/complex projects with multiple dependencies using Agile and DevOps principles from development through to production.

• Interest in being actively involved in the development and ideation of new features and platforms.

• Experience developing organizational and product KPI's.

• Broad and deep knowledge of technology and trends.

• Experience with financial management and budgeting processes, contracting and procurement processes, and RFP and proposal processes.

• Strong track-record of building and leading platform engineering team focused on Infrastructure platform and support.

• Experience working with software such as PCF, Apigee, Solace Message brokers, App Dynamics, Splunk, Vault.

• Experience deploying platform infrastructure both on public cloud and private cloud.

• Familiarity with micro-service architecture and experience in developing RESTful services is a plus.

• Familiarity with systems management tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible).

• Experience in modern build and release practices, Agile, and DevOps

EEO Statement

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Pay Transparency

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Minimum Salary

$

171, 530.00

Maximum Salary

$

242, 160.00

Responsibilities:

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Educational requirements:

  • high school

Desired Skills:

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Benefits:

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