Managed File Transfer Lead - Local to Pittsburgh, PA

CGI•Pittsburgh, PA

18h•Onsite

About The Position

The Managed File Transfer Lead owns the strategy, delivery, reliability, and continuous improvement of an enterprise MFT platform serving multiple business lines in a highly regulated banking environment. This senior technology leadership role is based at the client site in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, five days a week. The lead guides platform modernization and public-cloud transformation, production support, release governance, and stakeholder engagement across a cross-functional team. The role combines hands-on cloud expertise, enterprise platform leadership, operational discipline, and communication with senior technology and business executives. The lead maintains the platform roadmap, oversees migrations of legacy and mainframe-integrated workloads to public cloud, and coordinates engineering, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, operations, and business teams. The role governs releases and production changes, leads major incidents, improves availability and resilience, promotes automation and self-service, and monitors platform performance and service outcomes. It also presents strategy and delivery status to executive forums, manages risks and dependencies, ensures compliance with enterprise standards, and coaches technical and delivery professionals.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in enterprise technology delivery, platform engineering, cloud transformation, or technology leadership.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent; the posting also specifies a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated experience leading large, cross-functional teams in complex enterprise environments.
Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and public-cloud architecture.
Experience migrating legacy, mainframe-connected, or business-critical workloads to public cloud.
Deep understanding of Managed File Transfer, enterprise integration, file transmission, scheduling, security, encryption, and operational support processes.
Experience managing production platforms in banking, financial services, or a similarly regulated environment.
Proven experience owning technology roadmaps, release governance, incident management, and executive communications.
Strong knowledge of reliability engineering, disaster recovery, business continuity, monitoring, alerting, and service management.
Experience with ITIL practices, including Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management.
Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain the enterprise MFT platform roadmap, aligning technology priorities with business objectives, risk requirements, and investment plans.
Lead phased migrations of complex legacy and mainframe-integrated workloads to public cloud, including cutover criteria and business sign-off.
Provide technical and delivery leadership across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, operations, and business teams.
Govern platform releases, production changes, escalation processes, and operational readiness activities.
Lead high-severity production incidents from triage through resolution, root cause analysis, remediation, and prevention.
Partner with Site Reliability Engineering, production support, and application teams to improve availability, resilience, recoverability, and observability.
Drive adoption of self-service capabilities, automation, and standardized onboarding across business lines.
Establish and monitor platform performance, reliability, adoption, service-level, and operational metrics.
Present platform strategy, delivery progress, risks, financial requirements, and business outcomes through quarterly business reviews and executive leadership forums.
Facilitate CTO-level capstone reviews and translate executive priorities into actionable, funded roadmaps.
Manage dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions across concurrent initiatives.
Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, regulatory, change-management, and IT service-management standards.
Identify opportunities to reduce operational cost, improve user experience, minimize alert noise, and increase engineering efficiency.
Coach and develop technical leads and delivery professionals across the platform organization.