About The Position

We are seeking a Manager to lead the design, implementation, and operationalization of a Service-Aware Organization (SAO)—a foundational transformation that shifts the enterprise from system-centric operations to service-centric, policy-enforced, and outcome-driven execution. This role is accountable for translating strategic intent into codified engineering primitives, enabling deterministic change execution, service-aware operations, audit-ready governance, and AIOps readiness.

Requirements

  • Bachelor degree and equivalent education and experience, which could include any combination of eight years of experience in IT software engineering, five years’ relevant business experience (i.e. making technical-related decisions on the business side), five years’ experience in project management, and at least two years of management experience
  • Broad and in-depth knowledge of technology trends, competitive environment, regulatory requirements and trends, and IT strategies employed to continually meet the demands of clients and regulators
  • Ability to translate enterprise level strategic planning information into software and data management needs, create business plans, and turn them into effective business solutions
  • Executive level communications skills, including, strong negotiation/facilitation/presentation skills and experience negotiating with vendors for relevant products and services
  • Ability to solve unique and highly complex technical, operational, and organizational problems
  • Ability to lead and manage the performance of multiple teams against a set of financial and operational objectives
  • Experience managing projects with enterprise-wide implications from conception through implementation

Nice To Haves

  • 8+ years in platform engineering, IT operations, or architecture
  • Experience in large-scale transformation initiatives
  • Strong knowledge of ITSM, CI/CD, observability, and cloud environments
  • Executive presence with engineering depth
  • Proved ability to drive clarity, accountability, and measurable outcomes
  • Ability to translate strategy into execution
  • Banking or financial services experience

Responsibilities

  • Define and operationalize the Service Ownership Model
  • Establish clear accountability boundaries for services
  • Drive adoption of CSDM-aligned service modeling
  • Define and implement engineering primitives: Service definition & ownership, Dependency mapping, Change authorization gates, Observability standards, Policy-as-code governance
  • Implement Permit-to-Design, Build, Deploy, Operate controls
  • Enforce policy-based validation gates
  • Establish deterministic change execution patterns
  • Drive structured telemetry adoption
  • Enable event-to-service correlation
  • Improve signal quality and root cause analysis
  • Embed continuous compliance into workflows
  • Ensure immutable audit trails and evidence
  • Align with NIST, FFIEC, and ISO standards
  • Lead phased rollout with 90-day proof gates
  • Track success metrics (MTTR, change failure rate, etc.)
  • Drive cross-functional alignment
  • Direct the engineering and deployment of significant delivery projects in accordance with specified technical requirements, schedules and budgets, including Agile methodologies
  • Oversee the planning, design, engineering, testing and deployment of application projects in conjunction with a variety of resources, which may include Waterfall or Agile approaches
  • Develop departmental plans, including business, financial, production and/or organizational priorities based on IT and focuses on long-term operations planning and performance, and broader business objectives and priorities
  • Apply an in-depth understanding of systems engineering and administration and a basic understanding of other IT disciplines in guiding and coaching team members
  • Identify and resolve complex technical, operational, and organizational problems
  • Impact results by supporting the funding of projects, products, services, and/or technologies
  • Maintain appropriate Risk Profile through owning the first line of Risk defense, proactively identifying risks, and implementing the necessary mitigations where warranted
  • Partner effectively with 2nd line of defense, Auditor, and regulators to ensure Risk is identified and mitigated appropriately
  • May play lead role or technical consultant role in large or complex projects or initiatives
  • Has full management responsibilities for teammates: hiring, disciplinary, coaching, terminating, performance reviews

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • life insurance
  • disability
  • accidental death and dismemberment
  • tax-preferred savings accounts
  • 401k plan
  • no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment
  • 10 sick days (also prorated)
  • paid holidays
  • defined benefit pension plan (depending on the position and division)
  • restricted stock units (depending on the position and division)
  • deferred compensation plan (depending on the position and division)
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