Engineering Team Lead - SDLC Tooling Job Buffalo area,New York USA,Software Development

Overview

Responsible for leading and developing a team of engineers responsible for the Enterprise Developer Experience and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) platform. Provides technical leadership, strategic direction, execution oversight, and people management for engineering services that enable software development across the enterprise. Accountable for the reliability, security, scalability, adoption, and continuous improvement of developer platforms including source code management, CI/CD, software quality, software supply chain security, AI-assisted development capabilities, artifact management, and related engineering tooling.

Overview

Partners with Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and Application Development teams to deliver a modern, secure, and efficient software delivery ecosystem that improves developer productivity and engineering effectiveness.

Primary Responsibilities

Lead, coach, develop, and manage a team of Lead Engineers, Senior Engineers, Engineers, and contract resources responsible for Enterprise Developer Experience and SDLC platform services.

Establish team priorities, objectives, performance expectations, career development plans, staffing strategies, and succession planning activities.

Provide technical direction and oversight for enterprise developer platforms including:

Git Lab SCM
Git Lab CI/CD
Git Lab Duo and AI-assisted development capabilities
Git Lab governance and platform administration
Sonar Qube
JFrog Artifactory
Mend
IDE ecosystems and integrations
Developer portals and self-service platforms
Dev Sec Ops and software supply chain security tooling
Engineering productivity and developer experience solutions

Develop and execute the strategic roadmap for Enterprise Developer Experience capabilities aligned with organizational technology objectives.

Drive adoption of enterprise standards, patterns, and best practices for source control, code review, CI/CD, testing automation, software quality, software supply chain security, and release management.

Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for platform designs, integrations, upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives.

Oversee platform engineering activities that improve developer productivity, reduce delivery friction, standardize engineering practices, and accelerate software delivery outcomes.

Partner with enterprise architecture and engineering teams to define long-term platform strategies and technology investment priorities.

Ensure platform resiliency, scalability, availability, observability, supportability, and operational excellence through effective engineering and operational practices.

Establish and monitor service-level objectives, operational metrics, platform health indicators, and developer experience measurements.

Drive platform governance, risk management, compliance, audit readiness, and security remediation activities in partnership with Cybersecurity and Risk functions.

Manage vendor relationships, product roadmaps, licensing, renewals, support agreements, and technology evaluations.

Review and approve major platform changes, implementation plans, enhancement requests, operational procedures, and technology recommendations.

Lead incident response, problem management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts related to developer platform services.

Provide executive and senior leadership updates regarding platform performance, engineering productivity metrics, strategic initiatives, investment opportunities, risks, and…