Automation Engineering Executive Director

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Executive Director provides strategic leadership, organizational influence, technical expertise, and operational execution for enterprise infrastructure automation. The role leads automation engineers responsible for developing, maintaining, and evolving automation capabilities using technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code 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 approach to infrastructure delivery and operations across Service Owner organizations. Working across Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, and DevSecOps, this leader accelerates cloud adoption by reducing manual effort, increasing consistency and reliability, and enabling self-service infrastructure capabilities.

The role also leads enterprise automation strategy and adoption, Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud enablement, automation engineering teams and products, CI/CD governance, automation across the infrastructure lifecycle, and platform engineering and self-service initiatives.

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.

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 aligned with cloud transformation, operational excellence, and engineering productivity objectives.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes, standardize infrastructure delivery patterns, and increase automation adoption across the organization.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Architecture, and Engineering leaders to align automation investments with enterprise technology priorities.
• Evaluate emerging automation technologies, AI-assisted automation capabilities, and platform engineering trends.
• Advocate for infrastructure automation across Service Owner teams and help Service Owners identify opportunities and prioritize adoption roadmaps.
• Establish governance, standards, and best practices that promote consistency while allowing innovation; define and track adoption, value realization, productivity, and operational-efficiency metrics.
• Establish Infrastructure-as-Code as the standard approach for infrastructure deployment and lifecycle management; drive adoption of Terraform, cloud-native provisioning frameworks, policy-as-code, and reusable infrastructure 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 a high-performing team of automation engineers, developers, and platform specialists.
• Oversee development of reusable automation services, libraries, workflows, blueprints, and self-service capabilities; manage automation assets as enterprise products with appropriate lifecycle, support, and quality standards.
• Establish engineering disciplines for source control, testing, code reviews, release management, and operational support, and continuously improve automation tooling and development practices.
• Establish and govern CI/CD practices for Infrastructure-as-Code and automation development, applying application-development rigor to automation code.
• Define standards for source control management, automated testing, security scanning, code promotion, deployment pipelines, change-management integration, and compliance validation.
• Embed automated quality controls that reduce operational risk while increasing deployment velocity.
• Define and communicate automation patterns for resource provisioning and infrastructure management, including the differing objectives, controls, and operational models for each.
• Partner with platform engineering teams to expand infrastructure self-service capabilities and create reusable automation products that simplify service consumption while maintaining governance.
• Promote engineering patterns that reduce delivery friction and improve developer and infrastructure team experiences, supporting 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 and personal/family care, and other leaves of absence to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

What This Job Offers

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