Application Engineering Services Engagement Lead

We are seeking a Application Engineering Services (AES) Manager/Lead or DevSecOps & Engineering to join our team.

Application Engineering Services (AES) Manager/Lead or DevSecOps & Engineering Contract Location: Core location preferred (NY/NJ, CLT, Dallas)

This job is essentially an Application Engineering Services (AES) Manager/Lead or DevSecOps & Engineering Governance Consultant role. The person/team would be responsible for creating and running the central engineering function that governs how applications are built, deployed, secured, monitored, and maintained across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and enforce SDLC standards and processes
• Manage application environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod)
• Own CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
• Establish engineering governance and compliance controls
• Drive vulnerability remediation and non-permitted technology removal
• Implement application monitoring and reliability practices
• Standardize development tools and engineering platforms
• Partner with Security, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Application teams
• Create engineering metrics, scorecards, and reporting Common Job Titles
• Application Engineering Services Lead
• App Engineering Services Manager
• DevSecOps Manager
• Engineering Governance Lead
• Application Platform Manager
• Software Engineering Enablement Lead
• Developer Platform Engineering Manager
• Enterprise DevOps Lead
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager
• SDLC Governance Lead Skills Required
• DevOps / DevSecOps
• CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps)
• SDLC and Release Management
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Application Monitoring (Dynatrace, Splunk, AppDynamics)
• Vulnerability Management (Veracode, Snyk, Qualys)
• ITIL / Change Management
• Engineering Governance
• Stakeholder Management Background of Ideal Candidate

Typically someone with:

• 10+ years in Application Development, DevOps, or Engineering Services
• Experience establishing enterprise standards and governance
• Banking or Financial Services experience
• Leading platform engineering, CI/CD, or DevSecOps teams
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and audit requirements In Simple Terms The client wants someone who can build and manage the centralized engineering organization that sets the rules, tools, standards, and processes for all application teams, ensuring applications are developed, deployed, secured, and maintained consistently according to bank standards.