Senior Director of Platform Engineering, Modus Create
Digital product engineering partner for forward-thinking businesses
Open for applications
Digital product engineering partner for forward-thinking businesses
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To partner with companies building for tomorrow and leading in the digital age.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a strategic, collaborative and hands-on leader who blends technical depth with consultative finesse—someone who can guide clients through transformation, nurture high-performing, inclusive teams, and evolve how software is designed, delivered, and scaled
- You’ll bring deep DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure development experience, a consulting mindset, and a strong commitment to improve both our craft and our client outcomes
- 15+ years in Platform Engineering/DevOps, with 7+ in senior engineering leadership—ideally in consulting or high-growth tech environments
- A clear point of view on modern architecture, engineering best-practices, and agile delivery
- Proven experience scaling distributed global teams and platform engineering operations
- Strong pre-sales and delivery experience—able to shape winning proposals and roadmaps
- A customer-first mindset and passion for solving complex problems with elegant, scalable solutions
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional and cross-cultural environments
- A history of growing leaders and fostering high-trust, high-performance teams—while supporting a culture of empathy, accountability, and shared success
What the job involves
- As Senior Director of Platform Engineering, you’ll lead and grow our global platform engineering capability—supporting team development, setting the bar for technical excellence, and enabling business-critical outcomes across industries like healthcare, financial services, life sciences, and automotive
- As Senior Director, you’ll guide and empower a global team of Platform Engineering Directors and practitioners across tools, frameworks, platforms, and cloud providers
- This role reports to a VP of Product Engineering Services and works cross-functionally with Growth, Operations, and Partnerships
- You'll play a key role in creating a culture where people feel seen, supported, and motivated to do their best work
- Build and scale a high-performing, distributed platform engineering team through strong mentorship and inclusive leadership
- Define what great looks like—through reusable runbooks, technical standards, and nurturing a culture grounded in quality, belonging, and continuous learning
- Help clients modernize platforms, launch new infrastructure, and make better innovation investment decisions
- Ensure every solution is aligned with client goals and drives measurable value, while remaining empathetic to real-world user needs and impact
- Own and evolve our delivery frameworks, platform engineering standards, and team operations
- Champion cloud-native development, DevOps and SRE best practices, and scalable architecture, balancing technical vision with affinity with both the people building and the people using the product
- Partner with Sales, Partnerships, and Client Executives to shape and win new opportunities
- Translate client needs into technical solutions, delivery plans, and estimates
- Lead development of proposals, estimation, and pre-sales architecture discussions
- Develop reusable solution assets, infrastructure templates and case studies for future engagements
- Build trusted advisor relationships with key client stakeholders through authenticity, curiosity, and a shared commitment to outcomes
- Collaborate with leaders in product, security, data, and AI to deliver integrated client solutions
- Act as a connector between technical teams, sales teams, and client stakeholders, ensuring clarity, collaboration, and a shared sense of purpose
- Create clear, equitable career paths and performance frameworks for Platform Engineering Directors and their teams
- Foster a culture of feedback, curiosity, and growth, through psychologically safe and collaborative environment, where everyone feels their voice is heard, their development is supported, and continuous improvement is encouraged
Our take
Modus Create is a digital transformation firm that delivers digital strategy, product development, platform modernization and digital operations services. Essentially, it works with clients to assess and improve their digital transformation roadmaps so they can better optimize operations and enhance revenue.
The company's comprehensive suite of services includes but is not limited to security auditing, agile product development, cloud migration and business process automation. This all-in-one approach is attractive to enterprise clients and enables Modus Create to serve the likes of Toyota, Sephora and Adidas.
With an established presence in the space, its expected that Modus Create will continue its path of success for the foreseeable future. It has earned a number of industry accolades, and so far proved its staying power as a trusted transformation partner.
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Company
Company HQ
Hunter Mill District, Reston, VA
Leadership
Sharon Lynch
(CEO)Prior to joining Modus Create in 2025, Sharon spent nearly 12 years at Slalom as a GM of Slalom Build North America. She was also a Manager at Accenture for nearly 8 years.
Benjamin Robin
(COO & CFO)Prior to joining Modus Create in 2022, Benjamin spent 7 years at Tweag as CFO and GM. He also served as the Head of Finance, Tax & Administration at EDP Renewables France & Belgium, and as a Finance & Accounting Manager at Salt Mobile.
Kevin McClelland
(CGO)Alongside Modus Create, Kevin is a Visiting Lecturer of Marketing/Management at the University of Washington. Previously, he spent nearly 12 years at Slalom, holding various roles, including Executive Lead of Slalom AI.
Jon Allegre
(CCO)Prior to joining Modus Create in 20245, Jon spent nearly 15 years at Slalom. He joined Slalom in 2010 as a Practice Area Director before moving into the Role of Managing Director in 2019, a role he held until leaving the company in 2025.
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