Master Platform Engineer

We invite you to explore a future with us at PRA Group, a diverse and growing company that has a tangible impact on the global economy.

Position Summary: 

Provides enterprise-level technical leadership and architectural direction for platform engineering across the core collections ecosystem, defining long-term strategies, standards, and scalable operating models for build, integration, data migration, and release management. Shapes cross-functional technology decisions spanning applications, data, security, and infrastructure, and drives the development of new platform capabilities to support organizational objectives. Acts as a recognized authority influencing multi-year transformation initiatives, including system modernization, vendor integration, and cloud adoption, while ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture and business outcomes.

Experience Requirements:  

• 12+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or systems architecture
• Demonstrated experience defining enterprise-level architecture, standards, and technical strategy
• Proven ability to lead large-scale, multi-system transformations (e.g., modernization, cloud migration, or vendor platform integration)
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders and cross-functional leadership
• Track record of introducing new technologies, methodologies, or engineering practices at scale
• Expert: Distributed systems architecture, platform engineering, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) ecosystems
• Expert: Cloud-native architecture, including definition and governance of cloud platform designs and operating models
• Advanced/Expert: Enterprise data migration strategy, integration patterns, and system interoperability across complex environments
• Expert: Definition and governance of engineering standards, architectural principles, and platform operating models
• Expert: Strategic problem decomposition and solution design across multiple domains, systems, and business functions
• Expert: Executive communication and organizational technical influence, including the ability to shape decisions at senior leadership levels
• Advanced/Expert: Definition of enterprise data platform architecture and integration strategies across database technologies, including Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Oracle Exadata, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Expert: Definition of enterprise migration strategies for legacy-to-cloud platform transformations, including governance of execution across programs
• Expert: Leadership of multi-stream, cross-functional technology initiatives with enterprise-wide impact
• Expert: Definition of platform implementation approaches, operating models, and governance frameworks across build, release, and environment management
• Expert: Definition of standards and governance models for system configuration and customization, including workflow design, rules management, role-based access controls, and change governance
• Expert: Definition of enterprise testing strategies and quality governance frameworks, including User Acceptance Testing (UAT) readiness and business validation models
• Expert: Definition of enterprise integration patterns and standards, including real-time application programming interfaces (APIs) and batch/Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processing
• Expert: Influence on executive stakeholders and definition of governance models across business and technology organizations
• Recognized authority: Platform engineering practices, shaping organizational standards and long-term technical direction
• Leader in innovation: Drives creation and adoption of new engineering methodologies, platform capabilities, and architectural patterns across the enterprise
• Strategic leader: Identifies and frames complex enterprise challenges and translates them into multi-stream initiatives and long-term technical roadmaps

Key  Responsibilities (other duties may be assigned):

Platform Strategy & Architecture (25%)

• Define and evolve the enterprise platform engineering strategy, including standards for build, release, environment management, and integration patterns
• Establish architectural direction for core systems, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and alignment with long-term business and technology strategy
• Introduce and institutionalize new platform capabilities, tooling frameworks, and engineering practices

Enterprise Technical Leadership (20%)

• Serve as a recognized subject matter expert and authority across platform engineering, influencing architectural decisions and technical direction across programs
• Lead resolution of the most complex, ambiguous technical challenges spanning multiple systems, disciplines, and teams
• Shape and govern cross-functional technical decisions across applications, data, security, and infrastructure

Transformation & Innovation (20%)

• Drive large-scale transformation initiatives (e.g., core collections modernization, cloud migration, platform consolidation) with multi-year impact
• Identify emerging technology opportunities and define new approaches, methodologies, and standards for platform engineering
• Translate enterprise strategy into actionable platform initiatives and execution models

Delivery Oversight & Outcomes (15%)

• Provide strategic oversight of platform delivery across build, release, integration, and data migration domains
• Ensure successful execution of critical milestones such as UAT readiness, go-live, and stabilization through governance and decision frameworks
• Remove systemic delivery blockers by redefining processes, operating models, or architecture

Engineering Excellence & Standards (10%)

• Establish enterprise standards for CI/CD, automation, observability, reliability engineering, and platform reuse
• Define and enforce best practices for testing, deployment, and environment consistency
• Drive continuous improvement at the organizational level

Mentorship & Organizational Influence (10%)

• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, raising the overall technical capability of the organization
• Act as a thought leader and advisor to engineering leadership and executive stakeholders
• Influence talent strategy, capability development, and technical career progression frameworks

Operates as a technical authority and enterprise-level individual contributor

•     Influences multiple teams, programs, and domains without direct reporting authority

•     Provides direction to senior engineers, architects, and program leaders

•     Accountable for enterprise-wide technical outcomes, not just team delivery

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, color, sex, gender, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, citizenship, or any other classes recognized by state or local law or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. We are a drug free workplace.

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.