Executive Director, DevOps Engineering Excellence

Comcast Resume; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking a transformative leader to headline the DevOps Excellence function. You will set strategy, drive governance, and scale platforms that power engineering delivery across PMO, CIT, EDM, and EAS teams.

You will partner with Product and Architecture to remove barriers, improve cross-functional alignment, and accelerate outcomes while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across a large engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of relevant work experience in engineering/DevOps.
• Proven leadership in DevOps or engineering domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead the DevOps Engineering Excellence organization with strategy, operating model, governance, and execution framework to deliver fast, high-quality technology solutions.
• Own the engineering operating model across PMO, delivery management, ICT services, and enterprise platforms ensuring alignment between priorities, investments, and execution outcomes.
• Establish and continuously improve DevOps governance, planning, and investment management processes to drive transparency, accountability, and measurable business value.
• Build and scale an Engineering Delivery Management (EDM) function enabling predictable execution, release excellence, SDLC maturity, and delivery visibility.
• Lead strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management of enterprise platforms (EAS) including workflow, productivity, identity, and knowledge-management systems.
• Oversee CIT services supporting the engineering organization including end-user computing, onboarding, access management, and service operations.
• Develop engineering excellence frameworks, metrics, and governance mechanisms to improve velocity, quality, reliability, security, and operational maturity.
• Partner with Product, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering leadership to remove friction and accelerate delivery of strategic outcomes.
• Drive organizational transformation to modernize practices and create a culture of continuous improvement and execution excellence.
• Establish executive-level metrics, reporting, and operating rhythms for portfolio health, delivery performance, and business impact.

Skills

Leadership

Operating Principles

Operational Excellence

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

This role will be responsible for leading several supporting teams that enable enhanced velocity of our Freewheel engineering organization and overall enterprise. Freewheel’s PMO, EDM, CIT, and EAS functions are key elements of DevOps that strengthen engineering execution, platform reliability, and delivery velocity. This role sets operating direction, aligns strategic technology investment, improves execution discipline, and enables engineering teams to deliver faster, more predictable, and higher-quality outcomes.

Job Description

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the DevOps Engineering Excellence organization, establishing the strategy, operating model, governance, and execution framework that enables Engineering to deliver technology solutions with speed, quality, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• Own the engineering operating model across portfolio management (PMO), delivery management, corporate technology services, and enterprise application platforms, ensuring alignment between business priorities, technology investments, and execution outcomes.

• Establish and continuously improve DevOps governance, planning, and investment management processes that drive transparency, accountability, prioritization discipline, and measurable business value from technology initiatives.

• Build and scale a high-performing Engineering Delivery Management (EDM) function that enables predictable execution, release excellence, SDLC maturity, delivery visibility, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management of enterprise engineering and collaboration platforms (EAS), including engineering workflow, productivity, communication, identity, and knowledge-management systems.

• Oversee Corporate Information Technology (CIT) services supporting the engineering organization, including end-user technology, onboarding, access management, service operations, support processes, and employee technology experience.

• Develop and operationalize engineering excellence frameworks, metrics, and governance mechanisms that improve delivery velocity, quality, reliability, security, operational maturity, and organizational effectiveness.

• Partner closely with Product, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering leadership to remove organizational friction, improve cross-functional alignment, and accelerate delivery of strategic business outcomes.

• Drive organizational transformation initiatives that modernize engineering practices, improve operational efficiency, strengthen accountability, and create a culture of continuous improvement and execution excellence.

• Establish executive-level metrics, reporting, and operating rhythms that provide visibility into portfolio health, delivery performance, engineering productivity, technology investments, operational effectiveness, and business impact.

• Lead, develop, and inspire a diverse organization of leaders and professionals by fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, inclusion, and measurable results.

• Exercise sound judgment and influence on matters of strategic, operational, financial, and organizational significance.

ACCOUNTABLE FOR:

• Eng Portfolio & Investment Management

• • Strategic planning
• • Technology investment governance
• • Portfolio prioritization
• • Vendor and tool governance
• • Financial management and optimization

• Delivery Excellence

• • SDLC governance
• • Release management
• • Delivery predictability
• • Engineering metrics
• • Agile and operational maturity

• Enterprise Platforms

• • Jira / Confluence
• • Microsoft 365
• • Slack
• • Identity & access platforms
• • Engineering productivity platforms

• Corporate Technology Services

• • End-user computing
• • Onboardingandlifecyclemanagement
• • Service desk operations
• • Access provisioning
• • Employee technology experience

• Engineering Excellence

• • Reliability
• • Quality
• • Security
• • Productivity
• • Operational maturity
• • Continuousimprovement

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what’s right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Leadership, Operating Principles, Operational Excellence

Compensation

Virginia Pay Range: $239,546.71 - $359,320.06

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

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Education

Bachelor’s Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years +

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.