Automation Engineering Executive Director

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Automation Engineering Executive Director provides strategic leadership, organizational influence, technical expertise, and operational execution for enterprise infrastructure automation. The role leads automation engineers who develop, maintain, and evolve automation capabilities using technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks, cloud-native automation services, and CI/CD pipelines.

The Executive Director drives cultural adoption of automation, establishes engineering standards and reusable patterns, and makes automation the preferred mechanism for infrastructure delivery and operations across Service Owner organizations. Working across Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, and DevSecOps, the role accelerates cloud adoption by reducing manual effort, increasing consistency and reliability, and enabling self-service infrastructure capabilities.

The role also establishes enterprise automation strategy and governance, leads engineering teams and automation product development, governs CI/CD practices, and partners with platform teams to expand self-service infrastructure capabilities. DTCC offers a flexible hybrid model of three days onsite and two days remote; onsite days include Tuesday, Wednesday, and a third day selected by each team or employee.

Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years of related experience.
• At least 12 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, automation engineering, DevSecOps, or related disciplines.
• Significant experience leading enterprise-scale automation initiatives.
• Experience managing engineering teams responsible for Infrastructure-as-Code and automation development.
• Proven success driving technology transformation through influence across large matrix organizations.
• Deep understanding of cloud operating models, infrastructure services, and engineering platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD platforms, source control systems, and automation frameworks.
• Experience building reusable platforms, services, and engineering capabilities that operate at enterprise scale.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to executive and engineering audiences.
• Talents needed for success include executive influence, organizational change leadership, strategic thinking, engineering excellence, customer focus, talent development, and cross-functional collaboration.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise strategy for infrastructure automation, including a multi-year roadmap supporting cloud transformation, operational excellence, and engineering productivity.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes, standardize infrastructure delivery patterns, and increase automation adoption.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Architecture, Engineering leaders, and Service Owners to align investments, identify opportunities, and prioritize adoption roadmaps.
• Evaluate emerging automation technologies, AI-assisted automation capabilities, and platform engineering trends.
• Advocate for infrastructure automation and promote its use as a strategic capability across Service Owner teams.
• Establish governance, standards, best practices, and metrics for automation adoption, value realization, engineering productivity, and operational efficiency.
• Establish Infrastructure-as-Code as the standard for infrastructure deployment and lifecycle management; drive adoption of Terraform, cloud-native provisioning frameworks, policy-as-code, and reusable modules.
• Work with cloud platform teams to accelerate migration and modernization through automation, ensuring infrastructure delivery supports scalability, resilience, security, auditability, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop automation frameworks supporting centralized platform capabilities and decentralized consumption models.
• Lead automation engineers, developers, and platform specialists; oversee reusable automation services, libraries, workflows, blueprints, and self-service capabilities.
• Manage automation assets as enterprise products with lifecycle management, support models, and quality standards; drive continuous improvement of tooling and development practices.
• Establish engineering disciplines for source control, testing, code reviews, release management, and operational support.
• Establish and govern CI/CD practices for Infrastructure-as-Code and automation development, applying engineering rigor comparable to application development.
• Define standards for source control, automated testing, security scanning, code promotion, deployment pipelines, change management integration, and compliance validation.
• Embed automated quality controls to reduce operational risk while increasing deployment velocity.
• Define and communicate automation patterns for resource provisioning and infrastructure management, including their distinct objectives, controls, and operational models.
• Partner with platform engineering teams to expand infrastructure self-service capabilities and create reusable automation products that simplify consumption while maintaining governance.
• Promote engineering patterns that reduce delivery friction and improve developer and infrastructure team experiences; support platform-centric operating models that increase consistency, speed, and reliability.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
• Pension and retirement benefits.
• Paid time off, personal/family care, and other leaves of absence to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• Flexible hybrid work model: three days onsite and two days remote.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive