Director of Enterprise Pipeline Engineering & Automation

PNC•Strongsville, OH

19h•Onsite

About The Position

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As the Director of Enterprise Pipeline Engineering & Automation within PNC’s CTO organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA, Birmingham, AL, Strongsville or Cleveland, OH, Dallas, TX, or Phoenix, AZ. This role will play a critical leadership position in transforming the CTO organization from a predominantly infrastructure focused model into a software driven, automated execution organization, enabling faster, safer, and more repeatable paths to production. This role serves as a software and automation counterpart within the CTO organization, responsible for bringing strong software engineering, architectural rigor, and pipeline automation into enterprise infrastructure delivery. The Director will architect and build the software systems, automation frameworks, and engineering patterns that allow infrastructure to be provisioned, configured, validated, and handed off seamlessly once hardware is deployed in the data center. This leader will not replace existing infrastructure teams, but will enable and elevate them—creating the pipelines, abstractions, and automation capabilities that groups such as platform, operations, and runtime teams can consume and scale.

Requirements

Bachelors
At least 5 years of prior management experience is typically required.
Proven leadership experience with a large scope of responsibility is required.
In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Nice To Haves

Software Engineering & Architecture
Infrastructure Automation & Platform Engineering
CI/CD & Pipeline Engineering
Information Security & Risk Alignment
IT Architecture & Systems Integration
Proven leadership over large scale, cross enterprise initiatives
Demonstrated success leading software driven transformation within infrastructure, platform, or CTO organizations
Information Security
IT Architecture
Network Administration
Network Support
Software Testing
System Administration

Responsibilities

Directs enterprise strategies, initiatives, policies, and programs for pipeline engineering, infrastructure automation, and software driven delivery across the CTO organization.
Acts as a key transformation leader in the evolution from infrastructure centric execution to software first automation, influencing how the organization designs, builds, and operates technology.
Defines the enterprise vision for “path to production”, including standards, architectural patterns, controls, and automation required to move from installed hardware to production ready platforms.
Architects and designs enterprise scale software platforms, automation frameworks, and pipelines that support infrastructure creation, configuration, validation, and lifecycle management.
Leads the adoption of best practices in software architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, configuration management, testing automation, and system integration.
Partners with architecture, security, risk, and operations teams to ensure automation solutions are secure, resilient, compliant, and production ready.
Works closely with delivery and development teams to turn architectural vision into execution through reusable services, tooling, and automation patterns.
Establishes clear engineering standards and reference implementations for teams building or consuming enterprise pipelines.
Drives measurable improvements in time to provision, deployment reliability, and operational stability through automation.
Directs, motivates, develops, and oversees the performance of management and senior engineering staff.
Builds a high performing organization blending software engineers, automation engineers, and infrastructure domain experts.
Coaches leaders and engineers to think and operate as software product teams, not ad hoc project teams.
Communicates with executive leadership, vendors, and suppliers to align on technology direction, tooling strategy, and platform capabilities.
Serves as a trusted partner across CTO, infrastructure, and platform organizations—driving alignment without duplicating or displacing existing ownership.
Directs the strategies, initiatives, policies and programs for global infrastructure development, processes and teams support and management.
Drives infrastructure planning, development strategies and initiatives; determines current and future enterprise infrastructure needs.
Communicates with vendors, suppliers and executive management to ensure availability of infrastructure technologies and support.
Leads the development and adoption of best practices for technology architecture and management.
Directs, motivates, develops and oversees the performance of the management team and key staff.

Benefits

medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
dental and vision options
employee and spouse/child life insurance
short and long-term disability protection
401(k) with PNC match
pension and stock purchase plans
dependent care reimbursement account
back-up child/elder care
adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
a robust wellness program with financial incentives
maternity and/or parental leave
up to 11 paid holidays each year
9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service