Senior Digital Engineering Leader - Cloud-Native Platform

OpenTalent; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent is seeking a senior technology leader to direct the Digital Engineering department, shaping cloud-native platform and application engineering at scale, including budgeting across multiple streams and aligning strategy with business goals.

You will oversee career development for teams, serve as primary contact to technology peers and business partners, ensure autonomous delivery with Agile/Kanban, and champion AI-assisted coding to accelerate delivery while improving quality.

Qualifications

• Cloud infrastructure and architecture at scale on Azure, including AKS.
• Service mesh and edge/ingress traffic management with Istio and Envoy.
• Policy-as-code and fine-grained authorization using Open Policy Agent (OPA).
• Relational data platforms, primarily PostgreSQL.
• API Gateway design for internal and external exposure.
• Application development in Java, .NET, and C#.
• Strong grounding in software architecture principles.
• Generative AI and agentic software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Direct and participate in consults with client management to analyze short and long-range business requirements of the largest and/or most complex nature and recommend innovations that anticipate future impact of changing business requirements.

Job description

OpenTalent is seeking a senior technology leader to direct the Digital Engineering department, shaping cloud-native platform and application engineering at scale, including budgeting across multiple streams and aligning strategy with business goals.

You will oversee career development for teams, serve as primary contact to technology peers and business partners, ensure autonomous delivery with Agile/Kanban, and champion AI-assisted coding to accelerate delivery while improving quality.