Hiring: Head of Platform Engineering - Control Plane Company: Guardian Life Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 07:43:24 Target Skills & Keywords : ABAC, API Gateway, AWS, CI/CD, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, EKS, IAM, LLM, Lambda, MLOps, RBAC, REST, SageMaker About the job Required Skills: •As the Head of Platform Engineering – Control Plane, you will lead the development and implementation of our platform control plane initiatives which include governance layer as a code and all control functions directing our execution plan. •Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and technology partners to develop and integrate automation solutions that drive business growth, improve customer experiences, and reduce operational costs. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, management or a related field. •Strong people leadership experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and developing senior technical talent. •Deep hands-on technical background designing, building, and operating distributed, cloud-native platform services in production. •Demonstrated capacity to own the roadmap and delivery for control plane capabilities such as identity and access management, tenant boundaries, policy enforcement, approvals, evaluation gates, observability, auditability, FinOps, secrets management, and lifecycle/promotion workflows. •In-depth knowledge of enterprise governance, security, risk, compliance, and operational controls required to safely run AI or data-intensive systems in production. •Proven ability to drive engineering excellence through architecture reviews, design standards, testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, reliability practices, and operational metrics. •Demonstrated capacity to partner effectively with product, architecture, security, risk, compliance, operations, and domain engineering teams to turn ambiguous platform needs into scalable engineering outcomes. •Strong communication and influence skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical topics for senior stakeholders and align teams around platform standards. •High ownership mindset with a bias for durable, reusable platform capabilities over one-off solutions. •Operational familiarity with AI governance patterns such as prompt-injection defense, PII handling, output filtering, risk tiering, model/tool allow-lists, HITL controls, and audit trails. Compensation: •Excellent medical, dental, supplemental health, life and vision coverage for you and your dependents with no wait period Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!