DevOps Technology Director

Role Overview

• Provide overall engineering strategy, design authority, and execution oversight for data center exit programs and modernization initiatives.
• Define and drive engineering patterns, solution architectures, and technical guardrails supporting DCMS activities.
• Lead platform integration work in partnership with cross‑enterprise leaders, ensuring shared platform alignment and consistent adoption patterns.
• Direct geographically dispersed engineering teams and partner groups to deliver time‑critical migration milestones.
• Remove blockers, drive technical decision‑making, and ensure predictable, coordinated execution across Technology, Architecture, Product, and Platform teams.
• Influence enterprise priorities and orchestrate alignment across complex stakeholder environments.
• Oversee solution designs across Java, Big Data, open architecture, and cloud‑ready stacks.
• Ensure engineering outputs meet standards for scalability, resiliency, availability, and long‑term sustainability.
• Identify engineering, architectural, and delivery risks; implement proactive controls to ensure safe and disruption‑free migrations.
• Maintain engineering integrity across observability, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and automation capabilities.
• Manage managers and senior individual contributors in a high‑complexity, high‑pressure environment.
• Develop engineering talent, promote a culture of accountability, and ensure strong team cohesion across onshore and offshore teams.
• Deliver clear, concise, insight‑driven updates to senior leadership.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent (work experience, training, military, education).
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience.
• 4+ years of DevOps and Platform Engineering tooling implementation and configuration experience
• 4+ years of hands‑on software engineering or solution architecture experience.
• 10+ years of technology experience, including 4+ years leading teams in a financial services environment.
• Deep experience leading engineering, architecture, or platform teams in large‑scale, complex technology environments.
• Strong technical background across modern languages and distributed systems (Go, Python, Java), with the ability to guide teams building APIs, automation, and platform services.
• Strong background in modernization initiatives, cloud‑ready architectures, and infrastructure automation.
• Expertise with Kubernetes/OpenShift, IaC (e.g. Terraform, Crossplane), CI/CD, GitOps, and enterprise observability practices.
• Experience with CI/CD, observability tooling, automation frameworks, IaC (Terraform, Ansible, etc.), and enterprise platform governance.
• Proven success leading multi-region engineering delivery for complex, time‑sensitive programs.
• Demonstrated success managing onshore and offshore teams and vendor engineering models.
• Experience creating and delivering technology roadmaps and strategic engineering plans.
• Experience operating within regulated or risk‑sensitive environments.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Java
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Python
• Terraform
• Go

Benefits

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement