Key skills
SDLCAIGenAIJiraAgileLeadershipChange Management
About this role
Role Overview
- Define and own enterprise-wide Ways of Working for software engineering and delivery, ensuring consistent adoption of Agile, SDLC, and product operating models.
- Establish and maintain standards, best practices, and guardrails covering Agile execution, backlog management, team topology, and delivery metrics.
- Act as the executive owner for WoW strategy, resolving ambiguity in ownership and driving clarity across the organization.
- Serve as a pillar leader for SDLC, defining strategy, rules, and regulatory considerations for Agile delivery at scale.
- Ensure alignment between delivery practices and enterprise risk, compliance, and security requirements.
- Partner with engineering, product, and architecture leaders to improve delivery predictability, quality, and speed to value.
- Lead GenAI adoption practices within software engineering, ensuring responsible, secure, and scalable use of AI across the SDLC.
- Define standards for AI-assisted development, testing, documentation, and productivity tooling.
- Collaborate with AI, data, and security leaders to align AI usage with enterprise policies and ethical guidelines.
- Establish and evolve product ownership models, clarifying roles, decision rights, and accountability across large, layered teams.
- Strengthen the partnership between technology and business product leaders to ensure shared outcomes and value delivery.
- Enable clear prioritization, roadmap alignment, and outcome-based planning.
- Own strategy and standards for Jira and related delivery tooling, ensuring consistent configuration, usage, and reporting across teams.
- Reduce fragmentation by standardizing artifacts, workflows, and reporting used to manage and communicate delivery.
- Coach and develop leaders and managers on WoW expectations, execution discipline, and continuous improvement.
- Manage 2–3 direct reports, with accountability for a broader, layered organization.
- Build high-performing teams focused on strategy, standards, enablement, and adoption.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading software engineering organizations or enterprise delivery functions at scale.
- Deep expertise in Agile methodologies, SDLC governance, and enterprise delivery models.
- Proven success driving enterprise-wide transformation initiatives involving multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of product ownership models and modern product-centric operating models.
- Experience with Jira and large-scale Agile tooling strategies.
- Demonstrated leadership in change management, influencing senior leaders, and shaping culture.
- Experience defining or governing GenAI or AI adoption practices in software engineering environments.
- Background in regulated or complex enterprise environments with mature risk and compliance needs.
- Experience establishing standards across large, layered, or federated organizations.
Tech Stack
- SDLC
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