Estée Lauder Companies Executive Director, Cloud Platform Engineering

About Estée Lauder Companies

The Estée Lauder Companies is a global leader in prestige beauty, founded in 1946 by Estée and Joseph Lauder and built on an enduring belief in creativity, high-touch service, and entrepreneurial spirit. As an employer, the Group offers talent the scale of an international house with the energy of distinctive brands across skincare, makeup, fragrance, and hair care. Its culture values innovation, inclusion, learning, and responsible growth, inviting professionals to shape consumer experiences from laboratory to counter, digital platform to boardroom. Employees join a purpose-led organization where heritage, artistry, and scientific excellence meet to define the future of luxury beauty.

Role & Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise Platform Engineering vision, strategy, roadmap, and operating model across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Serve as the executive leader and subject matter expert for Platform Engineering, establishing standards, best practices, governance, and compliance across DevOps, CI/CD, Developer Experience, Internal Developer Portals, Infrastructure Automation, SRE, and Cloud FinOps.
• Drive innovation and adoption of modern engineering practices that enhance developer productivity, platform reliability, and business outcomes.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a globally distributed organization of engineering leaders and technical professionals.
• Establish talent strategies, succession plans, and capability development programs to ensure the organization has the skills and capacity needed for current and future business needs.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, inclusion, engineering excellence, and high performance.
• Deliver self-service platform capabilities, developer portals, and standardized engineering services that accelerate software delivery and reduce complexity for development teams.
• Lead adoption of DevOps, Agile, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and SRE practices to improve engineering velocity, quality, and operational resilience.
• Continuously improve platform services through automation, standardization, and product-oriented delivery models.
• Partner with business leaders, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Product teams to align platform investments and resources with enterprise priorities.
• Manage capability-area risks, dependencies, and strategic initiatives while ensuring effective execution and delivery.
• Establish and track key performance indicators measuring platform adoption, service reliability, engineering productivity, operational excellence, and business value.
• Oversee the evolution of cloud platform capabilities, ensuring secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective services across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Drive Cloud FinOps practices, financial accountability, and continuous optimization of cloud investments.
• Lead transformation initiatives focused on modernization, automation, reliability engineering, and emerging technology adoption.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders on platform engineering strategy, cloud transformation, and engineering productivity.
• Build and manage strategic partnerships with cloud providers, technology vendors, professional services organizations, and systems integrators to accelerate innovation and platform maturity.
• Communicate vision, priorities, risks, progress, and outcomes to executive stakeholders, ensuring enterprise-wide alignment and transparency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience, including in large-scale cloud and platform engineering organizations.
• 8+ years of direct people leadership experience managing managers and senior technical leaders.
• Proven experience building and leading Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Developer Productivity organizations in complex global enterprises.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise cloud transformations and operating multi-cloud environments.
• Proven track record of driving large-scale organizational change and technology modernization initiatives.
• Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior leadership and enterprise stakeholders.

Skills

Experience

10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience, including in large-scale cloud and platform engineering organizations; 8+ years of direct people leadership experience managing managers and senior technical leaders.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

Compensation

The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 182,450 to USD 313,650 per annum.

Benefits

Eligible employees may receive health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision), wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays, vacation time, and other benefits. Many benefits are subsidized or fully paid by the company. The role is eligible for a competitive bonus program, with potential overachievement based on performance and company results, and participation in a share incentive plan.

Culture

The Estée Lauder Companies fosters a collaborative, inclusive workplace where creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, and a passion for prestige beauty are deeply valued. As a global house of distinctive brands, it offers employees an environment that encourages innovation, professional growth, and a shared commitment to excellence and consumer inspiration.

About Cerulean

Cerulean is the definitive career portal for the global luxury industry. We match exceptional professionals with exclusive opportunities at the world's most prestigious brands. From haute couture and fine watchmaking to prestige beauty, hospitality, and boutique retail, Cerulean centralises luxury employment to help you find the career for which you were destined.