Director of Enterprise Pipeline Engineering & Automation

Director of Enterprise Pipeline Engineering & Automation – CTO

As the Director of Enterprise Pipeline Engineering & Automation within PNC's CTO organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA, Birmingham, AL, Strongsville, Cleveland, OH, Dallas, TX, or Phoenix, AZ. This role will play a critical leadership position in transforming the CTO organization from a predominantly infrastructure-focused model into a software-driven, automated execution organization, enabling faster, safer, and more repeatable paths to production.

• Strategy & Transformation Leadership
  • Directs enterprise strategies, initiatives, policies, and programs for pipeline engineering, infrastructure automation, and software-driven delivery across the CTO organization.
  • Acts as a key transformation leader in the evolution from infrastructure-centric execution to software-first automation, influencing how the organization designs, builds, and operates technology.
  • Defines the enterprise vision for "path to production", including standards, architectural patterns, controls, and automation required to move from installed hardware to production-ready platforms.
• Architecture & Engineering
  • Architects and designs enterprise-scale software platforms, automation frameworks, and pipelines that support infrastructure creation, configuration, validation, and lifecycle management.
  • Leads the adoption of best practices in software architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, configuration management, testing automation, and system integration.
  • Partners with architecture, security, risk, and operations teams to ensure automation solutions are secure, resilient, compliant, and production-ready.
• Delivery & Execution
  • Works closely with delivery and development teams to turn architectural vision into execution through reusable services, tooling, and automation patterns.
  • Establishes clear engineering standards and reference implementations for teams building or consuming enterprise pipelines.
  • Drives measurable improvements in time to provision, deployment reliability, and operational stability through automation.
• Leadership & Talent Development
  • Directs, motivates, develops, and oversees the performance of management and senior engineering staff.
  • Builds a high-performing organization blending software engineers, automation engineers, and infrastructure domain experts.
  • Coaches leaders and engineers to think and operate as software product teams, not ad hoc project teams.
• Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement
  • Communicates with executive leadership, vendors, and suppliers to align on technology direction, tooling strategy, and platform capabilities.
  • Serves as a trusted partner across CTO, infrastructure, and platform organizations driving alignment without duplicating or displacing existing ownership.

• Directs the strategies, initiatives, policies and programs for global infrastructure development, processes and teams support and management.
• Drives infrastructure planning, development strategies and initiatives; determines current and future enterprise infrastructure needs.
• Communicates with vendors, suppliers and executive management to ensure availability of infrastructure technologies and support.
• Leads the development and adoption of best practices for technology architecture and management.
• Directs, motivates, develops and oversees the performance of the management team and key staff.

• Software Engineering & Architecture
• Infrastructure Automation & Platform Engineering
• CI/CD & Pipeline Engineering
• Information Security & Risk Alignment
• IT Architecture & Systems Integration
• Proven leadership over large scale, cross-enterprise initiatives
• Demonstrated success leading software-driven transformation within infrastructure, platform, or CTO organizations

• Information Security, IT Architecture, Network Administration, Network Support, Software Testing, System Administration
• Hardware Infrastructure, IT Architecture, IT Environment, IT Industry: Trends & Directions, IT Service Management (ITSM), IT Standards, Procedures & Policies, IT Systems Management, System and Technology Integration

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