Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end strategy, design, and operation of Corient’s infrastructure, including cloud platforms, data platform foundations, as well as monitoring and reliability tooling.
- Ensure infrastructure is scalable, secure, observable, and resilient across growth and acquisition scenarios.
- Drive standardization where it accelerates scale, while allowing flexibility where business or regulatory realities require it.
- Provide senior leadership and oversight for data platform engineering, including data pipelines, data movement, and data platform foundations.
- Establish clear ownership boundaries between data platform engineering, analytics, and infrastructure to ensure accountability for data reliability and scalability.
- Closely partner with Data & Analytics leaders to support growth, M&A integration, and regulatory data requirements.
- Lead cloud engineering, including architecture standards, security controls, access governance, FinOps, and long-term scalability.
- Oversee DevOps tooling, and automation to enable safe, repeatable deployments.
- Partner with enterprise platforms, data, and security teams to support integration and modernization initiatives.
- Establish and grow Corient’s reliability engineering functions, including observability, platform and data pipeline health monitoring, capacity management, and incident enablement.
- Ensure systems are observable end-to-end, with actionable signals that enable fast diagnosis and prevention of major incidents.
- Identify opportunities to automate processes.
- Develop and own incident response playbooks, escalation paths, and after-action reviews.
- Own disaster recovery and business continuity across infrastructure and data platforms.
- Partner with the CTO, technology strategy, enterprise platforms, and business leaders to sequence infrastructure investments and tradeoffs.
- Ensure infrastructure decisions align with regulatory requirements, risk management standards, and audit expectations.
- Build, mentor, and lead high-performing cloud, data engineering, and SRE teams.
- Define clear ownership boundaries and operating models across engineering and operations functions.
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and calm execution under pressure.
- Translate technical outcomes into clear business impact for executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure, data, cloud, or platform engineering, with significant leadership responsibility.
- Proven experience leading data engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure platforms, and reliability or SRE functions in complex, regulated environments.
- Strong background in cloud platforms (Azure preferred), enterprise infrastructure, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience designing operating models across multiple engineering disciplines (cloud, data, SRE).
- Demonstrated ability to scale infrastructure through growth and M&A while maintaining stability and security.
- Calm, credible leader with a track record of earning trust from senior engineers and executive stakeholders.
Benefits
- 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching
- Four Medical Plan options that is generously subsidized by Corient
- Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance
- Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability
- Paid Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter & Transit FSA
- Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot
- Training Reimbursement
- Paid Professional Designations
- Giving back to the community - Volunteer days
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Additional Information
- This position requires the physical capabilities to work in an office environment, which may include prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.
- This position may require the ability to lift up to 15 pounds.
- This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week.
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States. For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Corient will require proof of work authorization.
- Corient participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
- Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.
