Director Head of Devops
Listed on 2026-04-20
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing, IT Project Manager, Systems Engineer, SRE/Site Reliability
Overview
Who are we? At Finastra, we’re a global leader in financial services software, dedicated to expanding access to financial services and shaping what’s next for the industry. Our technology powers mission-critical solutions across Lending, Payments and Universal Banking, supporting over 7,000 customers, including 80% of the world’s top 50 banks, in more than 110 countries.
About The Role Corporate Lending Technology is seeking an experienced and strategic Director, Head of Dev Ops to lead the modernization of our engineering platform across flagship products. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for defining and executing the Target Operating Platform roadmap, building and scaling a centralized Dev Ops organization, establishing SRE practices, and delivering self-service CI/CD capabilities and standardized client deployment patterns across the portfolio.
The Director, Head of Dev Ops will own the Dev Ops function end-to-end, building the team, tooling, and culture necessary to accelerate delivery velocity, improve operational reliability, and position Corporate Lending Technology on a modern, cloud-native, cloud-agnostic foundation.
Key Responsibilities- Dev Ops Strategy & Target Operating Platform
- Define and own the Dev Ops strategy and Target Operating Platform roadmap across all Lending Products
- Drive the organization’s strategic shift to containerization, cloud-native, and cloud-agnostic architectures as the standard engineering baseline
- Partner with engineering leadership, architecture, and executive stakeholders to align the Dev Ops roadmap with business and technology strategy
- Champion a platform product mindset, treating internal engineering teams as customers, and continuously improving developer experience
- Centralized Dev Ops Organization & Self-Service CI/CD
- Build, lead, and scale a centralized shared Dev Ops team responsible for delivering self-service CI/CD frameworks to all product engineering teams
- Define and enforce standardized CI/CD pipelines, tool chains, and governance practices across all Corporate Lending products
- Develop reusable pipeline templates, infrastructure modules, and deployment blueprints that enable product teams to operate with speed and consistency
- Reduce outer-loop friction and drive automation across build, test, release, and deployment workflows
- SRE & Operational Excellence
- Build and mature Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices from the ground up across the product portfolio
- Establish Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, observability standards, and incident response frameworks
- Drive a culture of operational excellence, proactive monitoring, and continuous reliability improvement
- Balance delivery velocity with system stability and client uptime commitments
- Client Deployment Standards
- Design and publish standardized deployment patterns for clients, ensuring consistent, repeatable, and well-documented onboarding and release processes
- Reduce client-facing delivery risk and variability through structured deployment frameworks and validated reference architectures
- Collaborate with client-facing and product teams to align deployment standards with client expectations and contractual obligations
- Team Leadership & Organizational Development
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing centralized Dev Ops engineering team
- Serve as a hands-on technical authority and trusted advisor for product teams navigating the cloud-native modernization journey
- Establish communities of practice and engineering guilds to drive knowledge sharing and standards adoption across product lines
- Own the roadmap for extending Dev Ops standards and platform practices into Retail Lending
- 15–20 years of overall software engineering and technical leadership experience, with a strong and consistent focus on Dev Ops, platform engineering, infrastructure modernization, and cloud-native delivery
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in containerization, Kubernetes, and cloud-native platform engineering
- Deep expertise with at least one enterprise Kubernetes platform:
Red Hat Open Shift, AWS EKS, or Azure AKS, with working knowledge of at least one additional…
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