DevSecOps Engineering Executive Director

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base pay + bonus

Health & life insurance

Pension plan

Paid time off

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is seeking an Executive Director to lead DevSecOps platforms and engineering tools across the software delivery lifecycle. The role focuses on modernizing platforms, improving developer experience, and enforcing secure, automated delivery across enterprise teams.

The position requires strong leadership of distributed engineering teams, governance of toolchains, and collaboration with cybersecurity, architecture, and risk to translate priorities into

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading enterprise DevSecOps, platform engineering, or software tooling teams.
• Proven modernization and operation of business-critical engineering platforms at scale.
• Strong understanding of source control, CI/CD, artifacts, and secure delivery controls.
• Experience with governance, production support, and budget/vendor management.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and roadmaps for DevSecOps platforms and engineering tools.
• Lead reusable pipelines, integrations, and self-service workflows for delivery.
• Embed security policies into platforms and automate governance over tooling.
• Own operating health, SLAs, incident management, and cost visibility.
• Foster developer experience, onboarding, and adoption of platform services.
• Lead engineering managers, plan budgets, and communicate value to leadership.

Skills

DevSecOps leadership

Platform engineering

CI/CD tooling

Software supply chain

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jenkins/CloudBees

Job description

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

Role Summary

The Executive Director, DevSecOps & Engineering Platform Tools will lead the strategy, engineering, modernization, and operation of enterprise platforms supporting the software development lifecycle.

This leader will bring together engineering tools, delivery pipelines, and self-service automation into a cohesive platform ecosystem that improves developer experience, strengthens software supply chain controls, and advances Continuous Delivery. The role combines strategic direction with technical leadership and operational accountability, ensuring platforms are secure, resilient, cost-effective, and straightforward for engineering teams to adopt.

The successful candidate will build strong engineering teams, establish clear service ownership, and partner across application engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and risk to translate enterprise priorities into reliable, reusable capabilities.

Primary Responsibilities

Enterprise Platform Strategy & Modernization

• Define and execute the strategy and roadmap for DevSecOps platforms and engineering tools, balancing modernization, operational resilience, developer needs, and enterprise controls.
• Manage the platform portfolio across source control, CI/CD, artifact management, software supply chain tooling, code quality, and associated engineering services.
• Drive tool rationalization, lifecycle upgrades, and migration planning to reduce fragmentation, technical debt, and unsupported technology.

Delivery Engineering & Automation

• Lead the engineering of reusable pipeline capabilities, integrations, and self-service workflows that simplify software delivery.
• Establish standardized delivery paths that incorporate security, quality, approval, and evidence requirements without unnecessary manual intervention.
• Partner with enterprise testing and application engineering leaders to enable automated, risk-based progression from code commit through production deployment.

Security & Software Supply Chain

• Partner with cybersecurity and risk teams to embed approved security policies and controls into engineering platforms and delivery workflows.
• Strengthen governance over repositories, dependencies, artifacts, access, credentials, and toolchain integrations.
• Ensure platform vulnerabilities, control gaps, and audit findings are addressed through clear ownership and sustainable remediation.

Platform Reliability & Service Ownership

• Own the operational health of platforms within the role’s remit, including availability, capacity, observability, recovery readiness, and support.
• Establish service-level objectives, support models, escalation paths, and disciplined incident and problem management.
• Drive automation and reusable operational patterns that reduce manual effort and improve consistency.

Developer Experience & Adoption

• Treat engineering platforms as enterprise products, with clear service offerings, user feedback, adoption plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Improve onboarding, documentation, support, and self-service access to reduce friction for engineering teams.
• Partner with AI-enabled engineering initiatives to provide secure, governed integrations with the enterprise toolchain.

Leadership, Financial Management & Governance

• Lead and develop engineering managers and technical teams, strengthening technical depth, accountability, and succession readiness.
• Own portfolio prioritization, delivery commitments, resource planning, vendor relationships, and financial management.
• Communicate platform health, delivery progress, risks, investment needs, and business value clearly to senior leadership.
• Establish transparent measures of reliability, adoption, delivery efficiency, control effectiveness, and cost.

Qualifications

Required

• Significant experience leading enterprise DevSecOps, platform engineering, or software delivery tooling organizations.
• Demonstrated success modernizing and operating business-critical engineering platforms at enterprise scale.
• Strong technical understanding of source control, CI/CD, artifact repositories, software supply chain security, and automated delivery controls.
• Experience establishing resilient platform services, lifecycle governance, and effective production support.
• Proven ability to lead distributed engineering teams and deliver complex initiatives across organizational boundaries.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, licensing, and competing investment priorities.
• Strong executive communication skills and the ability to connect technical decisions to delivery outcomes, cost, and risk.

Preferred

• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience with enterprise tools such as Jenkins/CloudBees, Bitbucket, GitHub Enterprise, Nexus, and security and code-quality platforms.
• Experience with cloud-hosted engineering platforms, container-based delivery, and API-driven integration.
• Experience enabling AI-assisted engineering through governed platform integrations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Role Boundaries

The role owns engineering platform services and delivery enablement. It partners with, rather than replaces, application delivery ownership, enterprise testing strategy, cybersecurity policy ownership, and infrastructure platform engineering. Detailed tool ownership and organizational boundaries should be finalized in the role charter.

Expected Outcomes

• Reliable, secure, and well-supported engineering platforms.
• Faster onboarding and less manual friction across delivery workflows.
• Greater adoption of reusable pipelines and self-service capabilities.
• Stronger software supply chain controls and automated evidence capture.
• Reduced tool fragmentation, lifecycle risk, and operating overhead.
• Clear accountability for platform investment, delivery, and service performance.

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.