Sr Director, Digtial Platform Engineering

Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place. Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Sr. Director of Digital Platform Engineering to own the technical vision, development, and scalability of our global digital presence. This executive will lead front-end, back-end engineering teams, and architecture functions, ensuring our web platforms are a world-class, high-performance, and secure for customer acquisition and engagement. This leader will also execute on the Marketing end to end AI workflow technologies that enable effective and efficient execution of marketing activities across the enterprise. A critical focus of this role is leveraging artificial intelligence and comprehensive automation to drive unparalleled speed, personalization, and operational efficiency across the entire web ecosystem. This leader will optimize the website technologies, the website experience and own delivery of the technical digital roadmap. Your Impact Define the technical roadmap and serve as the ultimate owner for all customer-facing web technology, including architecture, development stacks, and integration strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives. Design, implement, and enforce a highly scalable, resilient, and performant web architecture capable of handling exponential global traffic growth and achieving best-in-class Core Web Vitals. Drive the integration of Machine Learning (ML) models and Generative AI to automate critical functions, including real-time content personalization, dynamic UI element generation, and predictive performance tuning. Provide executive oversight and technical direction for the implementation, customization, and strategic utilization of AEM/AEP. Work closely with the Adtech team to assure seamless user tracking across the ad experience to the web and through to pipeline and revenue. Recruit, mentor, and lead a high-performing global organization of full-stack engineers, front-end specialists, and platform architects, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and engineering excellence. Employ agile scrum methodology to assure product intake processes, prioritization and delivery. Optimize the website code, perform content and website clean up and assure a lean and effective information architecture. Collaborate with IT and other functional teams as needed to deliver the best experience for our customers. Own roll out of marketing effectiveness and efficiency tools such as AI enhanced workflows. Champion a code-first approach to platform management, maximizing automation across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code. Establish stringent Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and data governance frameworks, ensuring 24/7 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)