Director of Digital Engineering

Oklahoma State Government • Oklahoma City, OK

11d • Onsite

About The Position

As the Director of Digital Engineering with OMES you will enjoy: Generous leave including 15 days of vacation, 15 days of sick leave and 11 paid holidays annually. A comprehensive Benefit Package with a generous benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents. The Director of Digital Engineering is a strategic leader responsible for transforming the application delivery function across agencies within the State of Oklahoma. This role is accountable for stabilizing legacy system support, accelerating modern engineering discipline, and transitioning State teams toward product-oriented and platform-driven delivery. Reporting to the State CTO, the Director of Digital Engineering will ensure application development execution enables strategic objectives around agency mission objectives, cost optimization, and citizen service outcomes. This position works in a comfortable office setting with a computer for a large percentage of the workday. The noise level in the work environment is usually mild. Occasional travel may be required. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services provides excellent service, expert guidance and continuous improvement in support of our partners’ goals. We are a highly qualified workforce committed to serve those who serve Oklahomans and make government run in the most efficient, innovative manner possible. OMES is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities may be provided upon request.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in application development, software engineering, or technology leadership roles
• 5+ years leading cross-functional engineering or application teams, ideally across both legacy and modern stacks
• Experience leading teams of 100 or more
• Experience navigating complex stakeholder environments and implementing delivery frameworks with a strong familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, API-based architectures, and Agile-at-scale models

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrate ability to lead software engineering teams through large-scale transformation and recovery
• Strong organizational design and people leadership capabilities; experience rebuilding underperforming teams
• Ability to blend Agile, product, and platform practices with government constraints and legacy systems
• Executive presence with comfort engaging across business, technical, and public-sector leadership
• Commitment to public service, transparency, and measurable impact
• Experience working in or alongside government or large matrixed organizations preferred

Responsibilities

• Oversee the end-to-end delivery of application development across legacy and modern systems
• Assess and optimize team structure, sourcing mix, and performance practices to drive consistency and delivery quality
• Establish and enforce delivery standards that support both waterfall and Agile/hybrid project models.
• Introduce foundational controls for work intake, estimation, resource planning, and milestone accountability
• Partner with ISD Strategic Pillars to assess and manage the enterprise application portfolio, aligning delivery with Agency mission value, enterprise fit, and modernization readiness
• Collaborate with Architects and Operational Leaders embedded in Strategic Pillars to evaluate technical health, lifecycle posture, and rationalization opportunities
• Support planning for remediation, upgrades, or retirement of high-risk or low-value legacy systems
• Partner with the Cloud & Infrastructure teams to plan and execute modernization of legacy applications into cloud-native or hybrid cloud environments
• Lead readiness assessments of current applications, identifying rehosting, replatforming, or refactoring opportunities
• Ensure App Dev teams adopt modern cloud design patterns, including containerization, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code
• Collaborate with Cloud and Security architects to define guardrails, compliance requirements, and operational handoffs for production systems
• Drive alignment between cloud modernization initiatives and broader enterprise digital strategy, prioritizing resiliency, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Nurture relationships with agency partners through direct engagement, improved intake visibility, and consistent status reporting
• Establish shared expectations and success metrics with partner agencies and tower leaders
• Oversee day-to-day operations, team capacity, work planning, and employee engagement
• Build a staffing and sourcing model that supports both ongoing operations and long-term modernization
• Provide coaching, role clarity, and accountability frameworks for managers, team leads, and technical contributors

Benefits

• Generous leave including 15 days of vacation, 15 days of sick leave and 11 paid holidays annually.
• A comprehensive Benefit Package with a generous benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees