DevSecOps Engineering Executive Director

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Executive Director, DevSecOps & Engineering Platform Tools leads the strategy, engineering, modernization, and operation of enterprise platforms that support the software development lifecycle. The role brings engineering tools, delivery pipelines, and self-service automation together into a cohesive platform ecosystem to improve developer experience, strengthen software supply chain controls, and advance Continuous Delivery. It combines strategic direction with technical leadership and operational accountability to ensure platforms are secure, resilient, cost-effective, and easy for engineering teams to adopt.

The leader builds strong engineering teams, establishes clear service ownership, and works across application engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and risk to translate enterprise priorities into reliable, reusable capabilities. The role owns engineering platform services and delivery enablement, partnering with—but not replacing—application delivery ownership, enterprise testing strategy, cybersecurity policy ownership, and infrastructure platform engineering. Detailed tool ownership and organizational boundaries are to be finalized in the role charter.

DTCC's Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions supporting the global capital markets. The position follows DTCC's flexible/hybrid model, with three days onsite and two days remote; onsite days include Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and a third day specific to the team or employee. The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level across US locations, with actual compensation determined by role, location, experience, skills, and other considerations.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading enterprise DevSecOps, platform engineering, or software delivery tooling organizations.
• Demonstrated success modernizing and operating business-critical engineering platforms at enterprise scale.
• Strong technical understanding of source control, CI/CD, artifact repositories, software supply chain security, and automated delivery controls.
• Experience establishing resilient platform services, lifecycle governance, and effective production support.
• Proven ability to lead distributed engineering teams and deliver complex initiatives across organizational boundaries.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, licensing, and competing investment priorities.
• Strong executive communication skills and ability to connect technical decisions to delivery outcomes, cost, and risk.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience with enterprise tools such as Jenkins/CloudBees, Bitbucket, GitHub Enterprise, Nexus, and security and code-quality platforms.
• Experience with cloud-hosted engineering platforms, container-based delivery, and API-driven integration.
• Experience enabling AI-assisted engineering through governed platform integrations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategy and roadmap for DevSecOps platforms and engineering tools, balancing modernization, operational resilience, developer needs, and enterprise controls.
• Manage the platform portfolio across source control, CI/CD, artifact management, software supply chain tooling, code quality, and related engineering services.
• Drive tool rationalization, lifecycle upgrades, and migration planning to reduce fragmentation, technical debt, and unsupported technology.
• Lead engineering of reusable pipeline capabilities, integrations, and self-service workflows that simplify software delivery.
• Establish standardized delivery paths incorporating security, quality, approval, and evidence requirements without unnecessary manual intervention.
• Partner with enterprise testing and application engineering leaders to enable automated, risk-based progression from code commit through production deployment.
• Partner with cybersecurity and risk teams to embed approved security policies and controls into engineering platforms and delivery workflows.
• Strengthen governance over repositories, dependencies, artifacts, access, credentials, and toolchain integrations.
• Ensure platform vulnerabilities, control gaps, and audit findings are addressed through clear ownership and sustainable remediation.
• Own operational health of the platforms, including availability, capacity, observability, recovery readiness, and support.
• Establish service-level objectives, support models, escalation paths, and disciplined incident and problem management.
• Drive automation and reusable operational patterns that reduce manual effort and improve consistency.
• Treat engineering platforms as enterprise products, defining service offerings, gathering user feedback, supporting adoption, and measuring outcomes.
• Improve onboarding, documentation, support, and self-service access to reduce friction for engineering teams.
• Partner with AI-enabled engineering initiatives to provide secure, governed integrations with the enterprise toolchain.
• Lead and develop engineering managers and technical teams, strengthening technical depth, accountability, and succession readiness.
• Own portfolio prioritization, delivery commitments, resource planning, vendor relationships, and financial management.
• Communicate platform health, delivery progress, risks, investment needs, and business value to senior leadership.
• Establish transparent measures of reliability, adoption, delivery efficiency, control effectiveness, and cost.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
• Pension / Retirement benefits.
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed