Executive Director, Platform Governance & Strategy

The OCC

Hybrid Actively hiring Verified listing
Chicago, US Posted 14 days ago $197,800$343,900 / year

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TL;DR

This executive-level leadership role within Platform Engineering involves overseeing Site Reliability Engineering, Governance & Compliance, Strategy & Architecture, and Metrics & Reporting. The leader will scale SRE practices, establish reliability standards, drive cloud architecture strategies, and manage compliance obligations across a regulated environment. Key responsibilities include leading the maturation of SRE frameworks, embedding reliability principles into build models, and championing toil reduction through automation. Additionally, the role requires defining governance frameworks, owning FinOps and SecOps domains as Product Manager, and ensuring clear visibility into platform health and performance metrics. The ideal candidate should have deep technical expertise in cloud platforms, SRE tooling, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and security governance practices, along with a proven track record of operationalizing reliability programs at scale.

Skills

AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana GitHub Actions Jenkins CI/CD FinOps SecOps ServiceNow Archer CIS NIST Infrastructure as Code Container Orchestration Streaming Platforms Metrics and Reporting PagerDuty Datadog

What you'll do

  • Lead the scaling and maturation of SRE practices by establishing error budgets, SLOs, SLAs, and incident response frameworks.
  • Define and enforce reliability standards including on-call models, blameless postmortem processes, and corrective action tracking.
  • Serve as Product Manager for FinOps and SecOps domains, owning product vision, prioritization, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Establish and maintain a governance framework ensuring adherence to organizational standards across incident management, risk tracking, and audit findings.
  • Define and execute multi-year cloud architecture strategy aligned with business growth, scalability, regulatory compliance, and cost optimization goals.

What we're looking for

  • Proven executive-level leadership in SRE or platform reliability organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and scale SRE practices, including frameworks and models.
  • Deep expertise in cloud architecture strategy and governance with enterprise-wide standards experience.
  • Strong track record of cross-functional partnership for technical domain roadmaps.
  • Experience managing governance and compliance frameworks within a platform engineering organization.
  • Ability to design metrics and reporting frameworks providing visibility into platform health and performance.
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent, 15+ years of cloud engineering experience.

Market check

Salary context

This $197,800–$343,900 range sits above 82% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$157,500$241,300

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$166,171$246,562

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 238 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About The OCC

The OCC (Options Clearing Corporation) is the world''s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, acting as issuer and guarantor for options and futures contracts to promote stability and market integrity. Industry: Financial Clearing & Derivatives

The OCC currently has 25 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $136,200–$217,100 across 25 roles with salary data.

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