Director Cloud Platform Engineering

Eaton Corporation has an opening for a Director Cloud Platform Engineering. This person will report directly to the Vice President IT Cloud Transformation. This will be a remote position.Position OverviewThe Director is responsible for creating and establishing a product focused platform engineering mindset for enterprise cloud. Delivery of a truly agile operating model to deliver feature sets bringing cloud closer to the edge and simplifying the utilization of cloud by all functions within Eaton is the priority. Our goal is to ensure cloud adoption is easy and seamless and reflects capabilities that ensure our enterprise customer base can deliver with ease in a secure and cost effective this role you will work across a broad set of functions to coordinate features for Eaton's enterprise cloud platforms. Key partnerships will include the product leader for cloud, cloud architecture functions, cyber, IT partners and the broader business functions that are delivering transformational capabilities to Eaton customers. You will coach and build a high energy, high performing team designed to adapt to the changing business environment while maintaining delivery focus.As a leader within Eaton's Information Technology function, this position will have direct management responsibility, developing and directing a team of leaders, architects and developers to deliver business outcomes for our IT customer partners. Platform engineering will be key to ensuring the continual refinement and productivity of cloud based solutions in Eaton, ensuring the success of our applications.Essential FunctionsBuild an organizational operating model to partner with product ownership and cloud architecture to ensure delivery of key cloud features for IT application and business application usageDefine strategic direction of platform engineering and required capabilities to bring workloads into cloud fasterEmbrace AI capabilities, define ways to focus team members on value add tasks while allowing AI to complete lower value add tasksEmbrace and teach true organizational agility required to deliver diverse feature sets in cloud across multiple technology stacks in a multi-cloud environmentParticipate in joint prioritization sessions focused on ensuring the right capabilities and features are built at the right time to accomplish Eaton's cloud aspirationsEmpower platform engineering organization to deliver feature sets utilizing agile framework and focus on continual deliveryPartner with cloud architecture team to ensure cloud feature sets are fully developed, documented and ready for developmentBuild communication strategy for ensuring all features are known, properly defined and ready for developmentCollaborate with teams including cyber, network, enterprise architecture, legacy platforms, applications and business functions to ensure solutions are effectivePartner with cyber, network, legacy platforms, applications, enterprise architecture and business functions to ensure RACI is followed and communicatedPartner with product management to ensure product roadmaps and delivery velocity is properly managed and deliveredEstablish, manage, deliver and continually improve communication and review processes across our enterprise IT partner communityManage relationships across Eaton enterprise IT and business communityDesign, develop and deliver processes for continual and consistent knowledge management throughout the cloud team, ensuring all key stakeholders have easy accessDevelop, deliver and manage processes tracking and sharing impact of cloud adoption throughout EatonDrive continuous improvement of cloud capability and its delivery to Eaton stakeholdersPosition CriteriaExperience transforming delivery teams to continuous delivery and agile frameworksExperience delivering cloud solutions to internal IT and business IT customersExpertise managing business relationships and corresponding prioritiesVersed in cloud concepts and capabilitiesExperience participating in peer based prioritization frameworksUnderstanding of delivering capabilities in Azure, OCI, AWS and/or GCPEstablished partnership experience with vendors providing cloud capabilityLean/Six Sigma expertise and experience driving continuous improvementRequired QualificationsMinimum 10 years of IT experience as an analyst, project manager, engineer or program lead on highly complex technology projects and programsExperience managing business relationships for a centralized IT serviceCentralized service budget management experienceManager of people experienceLegally authorized to work in the US without company sponsorshipEducationAn undergraduate degree is required. A Master’s degree is preferredCompensationEaton recognizes this role as a critical position within the corporation and will create a compelling package consisting of a base salary, employee incentive compensation, long term incentive and complete benefitsLocationThis will be a remote positionEaton strives to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent. This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees. The expected annual salary range for this role is $176,249.97 - $258,499.96 a year.We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-10-06