DevSecOps Engineering Executive Director
About The Position
The Executive Director, DevSecOps & Engineering Platform Tools will lead the strategy, engineering, modernization, and operation of enterprise platforms supporting the software development lifecycle. The role brings together engineering tools, delivery pipelines, and self-service automation into a cohesive platform ecosystem to improve developer experience, strengthen software supply chain controls, and advance Continuous Delivery. The leader is accountable for ensuring platforms are secure, resilient, cost-effective, and straightforward for engineering teams to adopt. The position builds strong engineering teams, establishes clear service ownership, and partners with application engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and risk teams to turn enterprise priorities into reliable, reusable capabilities. It also owns portfolio prioritization, delivery commitments, resource planning, vendor relationships, and financial management, and communicates platform health, risks, investment needs, delivery progress, and business value to senior leadership. The role owns engineering platform services and delivery enablement, while partnering with rather than 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.
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 with minimal 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 the operational health of platforms in the role’s remit, 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.
- Manage engineering platforms as enterprise products, with clear service offerings, user feedback, adoption plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Improve onboarding, documentation, support, and self-service access 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.
- Flexible/hybrid work model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
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