Director of Engineering, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment

TO APPLY, ALL APPLICANTS MUST SUBMIT RESUME TO HTTPS://WWW.JOBPOSTINGTODAY.COM/ ANDREFERENCE ID#86673. Worksite: 350 Hudson Street, Floor 9, New York, NY 10014. Job Description: Define and execute a strategy for modern, scalable CI/CD pipelines across the organization. Design and implement a policy engine to block non-compliant building in security, resiliency, and compliance rules. Standardize CI/CD practices across product lines while allowing flexibility for team-level innovation. Drive metrics for deployment frequency, change failure rate, cycle time, and build health. Define and institutionalize a shift-left testing strategy that integrates unit, component, contract, security, and resiliency testing earlier in the lifecycle. Ensure all testing practices align with life sciences validation standards (IQ, OQ, PQ) and regulatory expectations. Partner with QA/Validation teams to design frameworks that can withstand auditor scrutiny and prove sufficiency of testing. Engage directly with auditors and regulatory bodies during inspections, walkthroughs, and reviews to demonstrate compliance readiness and testing rigor. Establish governance for test coverage, quality gates, automated rollback validation, and compliance evidence collection. Set the AI strategy for CI/CD and testing, identifying opportunities to use AI for predictive quality, automated root cause analysis, code generation, and build optimization. Lead pilots and proofs-of-concept to evaluate AI capabilities in pipelines and transform engineering practices. Provide thought leadership and influence other engineering teams to adopt AI-driven and automated approaches. Build and lead a high-performing team of engineers and program managers focused on CI/CD, testing, and automation. Act as a change agent across engineering by aligning stakeholders, communicating a clear vision, and driving adoption of standards. Partner with Product, SRE, InfoSec, Cloud Engineering, and Validation/Quality teams to ensure CI/CD and testing strategies align with organizational and regulatory objectives. Define successful metrics and regularly report on adoption, effectiveness, and transformation impact. Telecommuting permitted. Domestic and International travel required up to 10%. Job Requirements: Bachelors or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or in related field and 10 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation.Special Requirements: Position requires experience, knowledge or coursework in each of the following skills:1. At least three of the Programming languages: C#, .NET, Python, Java, Go, C++;2. Knowledge with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) within software development;3. Lead QA, engineering, DevOps, or SRE teams;4. Oversee the development and execution of test plans and monitor and report on test execution; 5. Advocate automated testing techniques from multiple perspectives, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing;6. Unit testing, release procedures, coding, design and documentation protocols and change management procedures;7. Develop and validate test design consisting of scenarios, types of testing and number of cycles of testing required for the test module;8. Develop and improve testing practices and strategies including functional, performance, regression and rollback testing scenarios, scripts or procedures;9. Manage QA teams to ensure comprehensive and accurate manual and automated tests are established and maintained through the project lifecycle;10. Knowledge of application suite to support business area needs.Employment and background checks may be required.