Senior Director, Platform Engineering

Fifth Third Bank

Senior Director overseeing platform engineering and leading team development in banking. Managing collaboration across technology teams to drive performance and strategic initiatives.

Posted 6/27/2026full-timeCincinnati • Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The Senior Director, Platform Engineering will have the responsibility of people leadership, with all the responsibilities that people management and leadership entail and will interact and influence leaders across the organization drawing connections to all strategic priorities.
The main responsibilities will include developing and coaching employees, removing impediments to performance, developing ways to enable collaboration, being a leader of the platform engineering craft, sharing best practices and executing insourcing strategies.
The Senior Director will handle performance review, compensation and other core human resources processes for their team.
Will need to work collaboratively across the Technology team and other internal groups.
The Senior Director will be involved in strategic planning process.
The incumbent will typically supervise other people leaders but may also have individual contributors.
Responsible and accountable for the identification of risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns.
They personally follow policies and procedures as defined and are accountable for always doing the right thing for customers and colleagues.
The incumbent ensures that their actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience.
While operating within the Bank's risk appetite, the role achieves results by consistently identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting risks of all types.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Typically, will have at least 11-15 years of combined people leadership and hands-on experience in their particular craft.
Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or equivalent combination of education and experiences.
A passion for guiding, teaching, mentoring, and leading people.
Position requires the ability to establish self as a leader, to not only perform in a leadership role, but to also be recognized by other divisions and business partners as a leader.
Strong presence and credibility with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills which are effective and impactful to a range of audiences.
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex information in a simplified way and meet fast-paced deadlines.
Experience communicating and removing impediments at both the team level and organizational level, fostering collaboration across organizational boundaries.
Deep understanding of all software lifecycle development disciplines - Project Management, Requirements Management, Analysis & Design, Quality Assurance & Testing, Implementation, Deployment, Configuration & Change Management.
Critical thinking and creative problem solving skills.
Understanding of agile principles and ability to reinforce the establish of teams with the right people.
Ability to lead self-organizing teams and drive change through influence.
Ability to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a sustainable & effective workplace.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Our Total Rewards include comprehensive benefits and differentiated compensation offerings to give each employee the opportunity to be their best every day.
Extensive benefits programs are designed to support the individual needs of our employees and their families, encompassing physical, financial, emotional and social well-being.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Project ManagementRequirements ManagementAnalysis & DesignQuality AssuranceTestingImplementationDeploymentConfiguration ManagementChange ManagementAgile principles

Soft Skills

people leadershipcoachingcollaborationcommunicationpresentationinterpersonal skillscritical thinkingcreative problem solvingtrust buildinginfluence

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Information Systems