Vice President, Platform Engineering (Digital & Wealth Management)

External

Godirect · Boston, 121 Seaport Blvd, MA

Part-timeOn-siteToday

AccessibilityChaos EngineeringCI/CDIncident ResponseLeadershipLoad Testing

Cover Letter Connect

Prepare for this interview

Elite

AI-generated questions, company research, and talking points tailored to this role

About the role

Voya Financial is hiring a Vice President of Platform Engineering to help shape how we build and operate modern, customer-facing digital platforms at scale. This is a senior engineering leadership role with two equally critical accountabilities : Horizontal technology ownership across all squads in our Digital & Wealth Management Technology organization-setting and enforcing the engineering standards, quality practices, reliability discipline, cloud-native patterns, and AI delivery guardrails that define "how we ship." This is ownership with outcomes , not advisory. Architecture influence through delivery excellence -partnering closely with Enterprise Architecture as a peer, bringing a strong engineering voice into major design decisions, and earning influence through evidence: operational reliability, secure-by-design delivery, and systems that perform at scale for participants, advisors, and plan sponsors. If you're the kind of leader who loves building strong engineering systems-standards, tooling, SRE, quality gates, and scalable platforms-while also shaping technical direction through credibility and results, this role is built for you.

Responsibilities

You'll serve as a "horizontal leader" across the organization-raising engineering quality and reliability across multiple product squads while improving developer productivity and delivery velocity.

Set Engineering Standards & Govern Technology Decisions

Define and enforce engineering standards across squads (approved stacks, patterns, API conventions, logging/error standards, libraries, and tech radar).

Lead an engineering council to review cross-cutting proposals and ensure decisions are documented via Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) .

Own a technology debt register and drive remediation as a first-class engineering priority.

Build a World-Class Quality Engineering System

Establish non-negotiable quality gates across CI/CD (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, performance, and accessibility).

Standardize contract testing across API boundaries to protect customer journeys from regressions.

Own performance/load testing and accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG 2.2 AA ) as core quality requirements.

Own Reliability Through SRE Discipline

Define SLO/SLI frameworks and error budget policies for customer-facing services.

Set on-call standards, incident response playbooks, and post-incident review (PIR) operating cadence.

Drive resilience/chaos engineering practices so reliability risks are discovered before customers do.

Lead Cloud-Native Engineering at Scale

Set patterns for containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps workflows, secrets management, and deployment safety (canary/blue-green/feature flags).

Ensure services operate within enterprise cloud landing zone guardrails while surfacing friction and improving standards with partners.

Track and improve engineering health signals (DORA metrics) and cloud cost accountability (FinOps mindset).

Advance AI Platform Adoption-Responsibly

Define and govern how AI is built and shipped across the portfolio (LLM integration patterns, RAG standards, guardrails, validation, observability).

Ensure AI output controls meet the expectations of a regulated, fiduciary context (auditability, human-in-the-loop where appropriate, and measurable quality).

Enable engi

Vice President, Platform Engineering (Digital & Wealth Management)

About the role

Responsibilities

Benefits

Additional Information

Your Match

Company Intel

What employees say

Interested in this role?