Vice President, Platform Engineering (AI & Cloud-Native, Fintech)

TL;DR

Vice President, Platform Engineering (AI & Cloud-Native): Shaping the strategic vision and roadmap for Wealth Management digital platforms with an accent on engineering standards, SRE practices, cloud-native patterns, and AI enablement. Focus on building quality systems, reliability frameworks, developer productivity tools, and secure delivery at scale for customer-facing services.

Location: MA-Boston (121 Seaport Blvd), CT-Windsor (One Orange Way), NY-Work@Home, New York NY, NY-New York (200 Park Ave 15th Floor). FINRA Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) and Series 99 licenses required or must be obtained within 120 days.

Salary: $200,000 - $220,000 USD

Company

hirify.global provides wealth management, retirement, and benefits platforms committed to financial opportunities for individuals and communities.

What you will do

• Set and enforce engineering standards, govern technology decisions via engineering council and ADRs, own technology debt remediation.
• Build quality engineering system with CI/CD gates, contract testing, performance/load testing, and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards.
• Establish SRE discipline including SLO/SLI, error budgets, on-call, incident response, and chaos engineering.
• Lead cloud-native practices: containerization, IaC, GitOps, secrets management, DORA metrics, FinOps.
• Advance AI adoption with LLM patterns, RAG standards, guardrails, observability in regulated context.
• Standardize security-by-design, elevate developer experience with templates and golden paths, partner with Enterprise Architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required; Master’s a plus.
• 15+ years in platform engineering, product, or technology leadership; 5+ years leading engineering organizations in B2C environments.
• Experience as horizontal leader setting standards across teams, leading distributed onshore/offshore teams.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native (AWS/Azure), DevSecOps, APIs, event-driven systems, SRE principles, quality/reliability practices.
• Familiarity with AI/ML, LLM integration; application security in regulated environments.
• Strong stakeholder alignment, communication, problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Hands-on with .NET, Java (Spring Boot), APIs/microservices, SQL/Oracle, Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Wealth management knowledge: retail advice, brokerage ecosystem, platform integrations, regulatory standards (FINRA, SEC).

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k) with up to 6% matching; employer-paid retirement plan (4%).
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year; 20 days PTO, 9 holidays, flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• 40 hours paid volunteer time per year; focus on customer focus, critical thinking, team mentality, business acumen, learning agility.
• Inclusive culture valuing differences, bold action for financial opportunities.