Director Product Engineering

The Director of Product Engineering (Platform Owner) ensures strategic alignment, governance, and delivery excellence for one or more enterprise technology platforms. Blending product-engineering leadership with formal Platform accountability, this role drives platform vision, architecture decisions, stakeholder engagement, and quality outcomes while overseeing the full product lifecycle from concept to launch.

Why work for Clean Harbors?

• Health and Safety is our #1 priority and we live it 3-6-5!

• Competitive wages

• Comprehensive health benefits coverage after 30 days of full-time employment

• Group 401K with company matching component

• Own part of Clean Harbors with our Employee Stock Purchase Plan (U.S. Only)

• Generous paid time off, company paid training and tuition reimbursement
• Positive and safe work environments

• Opportunities for growth and development for all the stages of your career

Responsibilities

• Strategic Alignment & Vision	• Define and sustain a clear platform vision aligned with corporate and business-unit strategy. • Prioritize and execute initiatives per Steering Committee (SteerCo) directives and ROI.
  Architecture & Technology Governance	• Make informed architecture decisions; champion cloud-native, event-driven, and DevSecOps patterns. • Enforce enterprise architecture standards and best practices.
  Stakeholder Engagement	• Own communications with SteerCo, senior business sponsors, and peer platform owners. • Serve as the primary escalation point for platform-related issues.
  Quality & Performance Assurance	• Ensure deliverables meet schedule, quality, and performance targets (SLIs/SLOs). • Drive continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and root-cause analysis.
  Delivery & Team Leadership	• Lead multiple on-shore and off-shore software teams (managers & senior managers) delivering innovative technology solutions. • Mature Agile practices; leverage data for predictability, capacity planning, and cost management. • Coach and develop engineering and product managers, fostering a high-performance, inclusive culture.
  Product Strategy & Road-mapping	• Define product strategies, OKRs, roadmaps, and success metrics; communicate progress to leadership. • Balance new features with technical debt remediation and platform health.
  Cross-Functional Collaboration	• Partner with Architecture, Cyber Security, Data, and adjacent platform teams to align dependencies and integration patterns. • Coordinate release planning, change-management, and user-enablement activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, or related field. 
• 15 + years of progressive product-development experience, including 5–7 years leading multi-team engineering organizations. 
• Proven expertise in Agile delivery models and modern SDLC, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices. 
• Certifications: Agile Certified Professional (required); Certified Scrum Master (preferred); Certified Agile Leadership (preferred). 
• Hands-on familiarity with Azure, GitHub, DevOps pipelines, API design, DataOps, OpenAI/GenAI, Angular (or comparable front-end frameworks), and event-driven architectures. 
• Demonstrated success in setting platform vision, making architecture trade-offs, and engaging executive stakeholders.

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Join our safety focused team today! To learn more about our company, and to apply online for this exciting opportunity, visit us at https://careers.cleanharbors.com/.

Clean Harbors is an equal opportunity employer.

Clean Harbors is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact ect@cleanharbors.com or 1-844-922-5547.

Clean Harbors is a Military & Veteran friendly company.

Clean Harbors is committed to complying with applicable pay transparency laws and ensuring fair and equitable compensation. The posted salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for this role. Final compensation may vary based on factors such as location, experience, skills, and business needs. In addition to the base salary, some roles may be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.

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