Theocc

Theocc

Executive Director, Platform Governance & Strategy

Chicago - 125 S Franklin · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentGitAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsPrometheusGrafanaDatadogSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKafkaIncident ResponseComplianceProduct StrategyAgileJiraForecastingHRISLeadership

About the role

  • To be considered for this position, applications and resumes are accepted only through our careers site by directly applying to the posted job.
  • We do not accept unsolicited resumes or sales solicitations from staffing agencies.
  • Any OCC employee wishing to submit a referral must do so through their Workday account.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the scaling and maturation of the SRE practice, establishing error budgets, SLOs, SLAs, and incident response frameworks across all platform services.
  • Define and enforce reliability standards including on-call models, blameless postmortem processes, and corrective action tracking to drive continuous improvement.
  • Partner with Platform Foundation teams (Kubernetes, Kafka, FinOps/Security) to embed reliability principles into build and operate models.
  • Establish and maintain a governance framework ensuring Platform Engineering adheres to organizational standards across incident and problem management, SORTs, risk tracking, and audit findings.
  • Own the end-to-end process for PE compliance obligations, ensuring timely resolution and closure of incidents, problem tickets, risk items, and audit observations with clear accountability and tracking.
  • Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Security functions to proactively identify governance gaps, drive remediation, and ensure PE operates within the organization's risk appetite.
  • Maintain visibility and reporting on PE's compliance posture across all obligation types, surfacing trends, aging items, and residual risks to CARE leadership and relevant stakeholders.
  • Partner with Platform Engineering Product teams (Kubernetes, Kafka, FinOps/Security) to embed reliability principles into build and operate models.
  • Establish cloud architectural standards, reference architectures, and governance frameworks (landing zones, identity, network patterns, service catalog) and drive adoption across engineering.
  • Serve as the primary engineering leadership partner to the Platform Engineering Program Management function, ensuring platform initiatives are properly scoped, sequenced, and resourced.

Requirements

  • The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
  • [Required] Proven executive-level leadership of SRE, cloud engineering, or platform reliability organizations in a regulated industry environment.
  • [Required] Demonstrated ability to build and scale SRE practices including SLO/SLA frameworks, on-call models, error budgets, and incident response programs.
  • [Required] Deep expertise in cloud architecture strategy and governance, with experience defining and driving enterprise-wide architectural standards.
  • [Required] Strong track record of cross-functional partnership with Program/Product Management, translating platform capabilities into sequenced, delivery-ready roadmaps.
  • [Required] Demonstrated experience serving in a Product Manager capacity for technical domains such as FinOps, SecOps, or platform tooling, including ownership of roadmap, prioritization, and stakeholder alignment.
  • [Required] Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • ability to translate technical complexity into executive-level insights and business decisions.
  • [Required] Demonstrated ability to lead high-performing, highly technical teams through accountability, coaching, and clear ownership models.
  • [Required] Experience managing work in Agile/Scrum environments with strong prioritization and deadline management discipline.
  • The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.
  • [Required] Experience establishing and managing governance and compliance frameworks within a platform or infrastructure engineering organization, including oversight of incidents, problem management, risk items, and audit obligations.
  • [Required] Ability to design and maintain metrics and reporting frameworks that provide meaningful visibility into platform health, engineering performance, and compliance posture.
  • [Preferred] Experience operating in a production change control process and working directly with audit and compliance functions in a regulated environment.
  • [Preferred] Experience in financial services or similarly regulated industries with exposure to CIS, NIST, and related frameworks.

Nice to have

  • [Required] Familiarity with container orchestration and streaming platforms (Kubernetes, Kafka) and CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalents).
  • [Required] Working knowledge of FinOps principles and cloud cost governance, with experience driving cost transparency and optimization at an organizational level.
  • [Preferred] Experience with GRC tooling or platforms used to manage risk, audit findings, and compliance obligations (e.g., ServiceNow, Archer, or equivalents).
  • [Required] 15+ years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, platform reliability, or infrastructure roles with at least 5 years in senior engineering leadership.
  • [Preferred] Depth and breadth of experience in a highly regulated industry such as financial services, with demonstrated understanding of applicable rules and regulatory frameworks.

Skills

  • [Required] Deep knowledge of SRE tooling and observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, Datadog, or equivalents).
  • [Required] Expert-level knowledge of cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • experience with multi-cloud or hybrid environments preferred.
  • [Required] Strong working knowledge of cloud-native architecture patterns and Infrastructure as Code principles.
  • [Required] Experience with metrics and reporting platforms
  • [Required] Familiarity with SecOps tooling and security governance practices within a cloud or platform engineering context.
  • Education and/or Experience:
  • [Required] Expert-level knowledge of cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP; experience with multi-cloud or hybrid environments preferred.
  • Certificates or Licenses:
  • [Required] AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification or higher strongly desired.
  • [Preferred] Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, or equivalent certification.
  • [Preferred] Relevant SRE or reliability-focused certifications a plus.

Benefits

  • Serve as Product Manager for the FinOps and SecOps domains within Platform Engineering, owning the product vision, prioritization, and stakeholder alignment for governance tooling and practices.
  • Own the platform metrics and reporting function, establishing a consistent framework for measuring platform health, engineering velocity, reliability, and cost efficiency across CARE.
  • Build and maintain reporting cadences for leadership, including platform health scorecards, capacity forecasting, and risk transparency.

Company info

  • The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization.
  • Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions.
  • OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms.
  • More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.
  • As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
  • Manage budget for areas of responsibility; ensure adherence to schedules, work plans, and performance requirements.
  • Oversee remediation of audit findings and observations within areas of responsibility, ensuring root cause is addressed, residual risk is reduced, and remediation is completed timely.
  • Maintain appropriate work/life balance within teams while upholding a high standard of delivery quality.
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