Blend360 is hiring an Associate Director - Platform Engineering

Blend is seeking an Associate Director to lead the Platform Engineering workstream on a global product delivery. This is a senior, client-facing leadership role. The individual will own the platform engineering workstream end-to-end, act as the primary escalation point to the Delivery Leads, make key technical decisions in partnership with the client, and actively develop junior members of the platform team. Responsibilities - Lead on project delivery and governance for the Platform Engineering workstream. - Support and develop Platform Engineers across the engagement, providing technical direction and day-to-day guidance. - Build and maintain a scalable, secure, and reliable cloud platform on Microsoft Azure, covering infrastructure, networking, identity, and environment strategy. - Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and environment automation for engineering and data workloads. - Define and promote best practices for infrastructure as code, security, monitoring, and observability across the team. - Act as the primary escalation point to Delivery Leads for platform risks, blockers, and issues bringing context and recommended options, not just problems. - Operate as Blend's senior technical for representative platform engineering in client-facing settings, building trusted relationships with client engineering and architecture stakeholders. - Own key platform engineering decisions when working alongside the client, translating technical trade-offs into clear, business-relevant guidance. - Champion good engineering practices to minimise technical debt and ensure long-term platform reliability. - Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, setting clear standards for quality, delivery behaviours, and continuous improvement. - Contribute to Blend's engineering strategy and capability development alongside delivery leadership.