Senior Tech Lead, Development – Tool Chain – Modern Delivery
McLean, VA – Hybrid Working – Monday & Fridays remote, Tues, Weds, Thurs Onsite
Full Relocation Package on Offer
$200,000 - $250,000 + Bonus
Position Overview:
Toolchain is a key component of a Modern Delivery program. It provides tools to transform the development & delivery of business capabilities using an automated workflow with embedded controls that deploy to a cloud-based infrastructure. This role will be accountable for strategic leadership of the Modern Delivery Toolchain as a Product. That includes but is not limited to overall vision, design, prioritization, stakeholder & risk management, roadmap execution, & operations of the toolchain.
Our Impact:
Key outcomes include:
- Provide best-in-class support for 5000+ users & multiple mission-critical products across the Enterprise.
- Partner with Business Technology & IT Technology Risk Security divisions to ensure alignment of solution design with information security standards, architecture standards, governance, and compliance requirements.
- Manage toolchain operations such as resiliency, capacity, and uptime in a highly effective manner.
- Collaborate with stakeholders from disparate lines of business to prioritize capabilities and a customer value-centric strategic roadmap.
- Partner with Governance groups on principles and guidelines that enable engineering teams to deliver low-risk, high-impact solutions.
- Build & communicate on new capabilities, action plans to close gaps, and meet roadmap commitments.
Your Impact:
- Develop solution design & roadmap for CICD automation with embedded controls for complex scenarios such as governance, experimentation using modular patterns to expand automation of emerging & established cloud-native stack across industry-standard cloud providers.
- Strategy to deliver business priorities such as configuring and integrating automation of testing, security & risk management policy enforcement, and release management functions such as change record, asset records, change traceability.
- Drive operational excellence capabilities such as Single Sign-On, Monitoring Dashboards, Audit compliance reports, password & vulnerability management.
- Develop open lines of communication with senior leaders within and across divisions.
- Coach teams to collaborate effectively, focused on customer-centric outcomes.
- Accountable to self-identify emerging technology risks as well as action plans and execution of open risks.
- Be a trusted partner for technical consultation, executives, and senior leadership across business platform, risk, and other partners to align the roadmap with Business & IT’s strategic vision.
Qualifications:
- College Degree or equivalent experience; 10+ years of technology experience and 4+ years of management experience.
- Experience across design oversight of build & operating solutions with strong organization and time management skills.
- Operate independently with minimal guidance with demonstrated experience of delivery.
- Use of multiple automation tools & plugins via API Embedded scripts. Configuration for COTS tools for both pre & post actions for controls across tools for control activities such as merge checks, task/story approvals.
- Create a modular library for Jenkins DSL using Groovy; with a strategy on when to determine refactor need & devise a staggered plan to meet enterprise automation use cases.
- Create, organize & manage a central set of templates across technology microservices (Java, JS, Python) automations (script runner help, deployment patterns for cloud components such as storage, DB, gateway, vault across runtimes such as EKS, OCP using tools/products such as Rafay, Ansible, CFT, Terraform); with extensible framework as a design principle.
- Experience in integrating Jenkins for data product deployments like Attunity, Talend, Snowflake.
- Experience in designing and integrating with SAS products like Salesforce, Automation Anywhere (RPA), Appian, MicroStrategy, etc., for automating the build, deploy, and release process.
- Design KPI indicators (including load & scalability) and monitor operation/runtime across tools (such as Atlassian- Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence; Jenkins, Rafay). Integrations such as security (Fortify, Blackduck, Checkmarx, Twistlock, ELK) with strategy to manage continuous availability & code-based configuration to swap tools as needed.
- Design engineering productivity metrics such as merge size/time/frequency/releases to provide actionable insight for customers to evolve their software dev & delivery practices.
- Experience reviewing cloud cost using tools such as Apptio to identify opportunities and devise action plans to reduce costs by right-sizing compute storage, API calls across cloud-native services used by customer & toolchain environments.
- Build strategy to accelerate capability build with federated-contributor mode – with guardrails for enterprise controls, scale & maintainability.
- Experience with AWS native services for releases, upgrades, vulnerability remediation for COTS products on managed infrastructure.
Keys to Success in this Role:
- Comfortable working with unknowns; outstanding verbal and written communication skills to concisely present complex technical aspects, linking between technology & business partners.
- Ability to influence and work with multiple senior leadership partners to establish goals, objectives, and action plans.
- Ability to critically evaluate information, reconcile conflicts, and be self-motivated with strong organizational and time management skills.