Planet is looking for a VP of Enterprise Engineering to lead our enterprise engineering domain. You will shape the long-term technology strategy and ensure the delivery, stability, and evolution of our core platforms, spanning people leadership, architectural direction, and operational excellence.
What You'll Do
- Define and drive the enterprise engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with Planet’s technology and business vision.
- Lead and scale high performing engineering teams across backend, frontend, API, IAM, data, database, cloud, and platform domains.
- Oversee delivery of mission critical platforms and programs, ensuring reliability, performance, and compliance globally.
- Strengthen engineering excellence by modernising platforms, simplifying architectural landscapes, and improving development and operational practices.
- Ensure operational stability and resilience, partnering closely with Cloud Ops, SysOps, Product Support, and Security teams.
- Shape and govern technology decisions, influencing architecture, security, roadmap prioritisation, and cross functional alignment.
- Manage senior stakeholders across Product, Architecture, Security, Operations, and Business teams with transparency and accountability.
- Set long-term engineering direction and ensure alignment with Planet’s strategic objectives.
- Drive architecture modernisation, platform consolidation, and adoption of scalable cloud native patterns.
- Ensure engineering teams apply best in class practices in code quality, automation, observability, and reliability.
- Lead execution of major enterprise initiatives, including Planet Portal, DIP, Auth0/IAM transformation, and other strategic platforms.
- Ensure strong coordination across engineering, product, architecture, and operations teams to deliver high quality outcomes.
- Balance short term delivery with long term sustainability through smart prioritisation and technical stewardship.
- Own engineering support models, on-call structures, and incident/problem management quality.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, data driven decision making, and blameless post-mortems.
- Ensure compliance with industry and regulatory standards (e.g., PCI DSS).
- Build and mentor high performing teams, ensuring clear responsibilities, growth paths, and succession planning.
- Recruit top talent while also fostering internal mobility and capability building across the organisation.
- Reinforce a high trust, collaborative culture grounded in Planet’s values.
What We're Looking For
- A seasoned engineering leader with experience across multiple technology domains in complex, global environments.
- Able to translate business needs into clear engineering strategy and execution plans.
- Strong technical foundation across cloud, distributed systems, data, platforms, and integration architectures.
- Skilled stakeholder manager capable of influencing at the executive level.
- Passionate about empowering teams, simplifying processes, and driving sustainable, high impact outcomes.
Work Mode
This role follows a hybrid work model.
Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
