Senior Director, Platform

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About the role

  • Senior Director building Miovision’s governed API-first platform for intelligent transportation software. Leading platform engineering, distributed systems, AI-assisted development, and organizational transformation.

Responsibilities

  • Own engineering strategy and translate the Platform North Star into architectural priorities for human and AI-driven use cases
  • Lead the transition from application-centric integration to a governed, contract-driven, API-first platform
  • Partner with Architecture to establish a durable technical foundation supporting long-term integrity and near-term delivery
  • Lead, coach, and grow the Platform Engineering organization
  • Build a resilient team culture and drive platform-first alignment, adoption, and accountability across Engineering
  • Operate the Platform as a customer-facing product for internal developers, external partners, and AI agents
  • Establish API contracts supporting authentication, observability, usage metering, and scalable commercial models
  • Build a governed, unified entry point for Miovision’s strategic capabilities using adoption data and developer feedback
  • Build reusable, standardized capabilities with Data Science, integrating models and data products
  • Review architecture, explore code, and prototype solutions alongside engineers
  • Build technical foundations for AI-assisted development and establish AI-native practices
  • Partner with Developer Operations on automation and tooling
  • Guide teams through practical evolution of complex distributed-system architectures
  • Establish reliability, observability, security, and operational readiness standards
  • Build identity, authorization, auditability, guardrails, lifecycle, compatibility, and service-health standards into the platform
  • Ensure the Platform scales with products, customers, and the engineering organization

Requirements

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience with a heavy focus on platform engineering, distributed systems, and large-scale architecture
  • Proven track record of successfully leading, scaling, and coaching senior engineering teams in highly complex, multi-product environments
  • Deep technical expertise in API design, microservices, contract governance, and full API lifecycle management
  • Hands-on experience executing platform strategies that change how engineering teams use AI to build, verify, and deliver software, including exposure to MCP and machine-readable interfaces
  • Highly credible technical leadership with ability to explore code and prototype solutions
  • Deep practical familiarity with cloud-native architectures, AWS, Kubernetes, modern CI/CD, and Java, Python, or Node.js
  • Demonstrated experience driving major architectural or engineering operating-model shifts
  • Profound understanding of reliability, telemetry, security, and operational excellence in large-scale production systems
  • Excellent communication and influence skills for partnering with Product Management, Architecture, and C-suite stakeholders
  • Experience monetizing a platform, scaling a marketplace, or building a third-party developer ecosystem is strongly preferred

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • 24/7 virtual healthcare access
  • Dedicated wellness programs
  • RRSP/401K Matching Plan
  • Variable Incentive Plan
  • Mio-Days
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Flexible work options
  • Internet subsidy
  • Remote work allowance
  • Enhanced leave for new parents

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesNode.jsPython

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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