Director of Digital Engineering

Director of Digital Engineering

State of Oklahoma – Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES)

Oklahoma City, OK (On‑site)

Job Details

• Full‑time, 40‑hour work week
• Support the Information Services Division
• Salary based on education and experience
• Position located on‑site in Oklahoma City, OK

Benefits

• Generous leave: 15 days vacation, 15 days sick leave, and 11 paid holidays annually
• Comprehensive benefit package with a generous allowance to offset insurance premiums for employees and eligible dependents

Position Summary

The Director of Digital Engineering is a strategic leader responsible for transforming the application delivery function across agencies within the State of Oklahoma. The role stabilizes legacy system support, accelerates modern engineering discipline, and transitions State teams toward product‑oriented and platform‑driven delivery. Reporting to the State CTO, the Director ensures application development execution enables strategic objectives around agency mission objectives, cost optimization, and citizen service outcomes.

• Oversee end‑to‑end delivery of application development across legacy and modern systems
• Assess and optimize team structure, sourcing mix, and performance practices to drive consistency and delivery quality
• Establish and enforce delivery standards supporting both waterfall and Agile/hybrid project models, and introduce foundational controls for work intake, estimation, resource planning, and milestone accountability

• Partner with ISD Strategic Pillars to assess and manage the enterprise application portfolio, aligning delivery with agency mission value, enterprise fit, and modernization readiness
• Collaborate with Architects and Operational Leaders embedded in Strategic Pillars to evaluate technical health, lifecycle posture, and rationalization opportunities
• Support planning for remediation, upgrades, or retirement of high‑risk or low‑value legacy systems

• Partner with the Cloud & Infrastructure teams to plan and execute modernization of legacy applications into cloud‑native or hybrid cloud environments
• Lead readiness assessments of current applications, identifying rehosting, replatforming, or refactoring opportunities
• Ensure App Dev teams adopt modern cloud design patterns, including containerization, APIs, and infrastructure‑as‑code
• Collaborate with Cloud and Security architects to define guardrails, compliance requirements, and operational handoffs for production systems
• Drive alignment between cloud modernization initiatives and broader enterprise digital strategy, prioritizing resiliency, scalability, and cost efficiency

• Nurture relationships with agency partners through direct engagement, improved intake visibility, and consistent status reporting
• Establish shared expectations and success metrics with partner agencies and tower leaders
• Oversee day‑to‑day operations, team capacity, work planning, and employee engagement
• Build a staffing and sourcing model that supports both ongoing operations and long‑term modernization
• Provide coaching, role clarity, and accountability frameworks for managers, team leads, and technical contributors

• Position works in a comfortable office setting with a computer for a large percentage of the workday
• Noise level in the work environment is usually mild
• Occasional travel may be required

Requirements include 10+ years of experience in application development, software engineering, or technology leadership roles and 5+ years leading cross‑functional engineering or application teams, ideally across both legacy and modern stacks. Experience leading teams of 100 or more, navigating complex stakeholder environments, and implementing delivery frameworks with a strong familiarity with Dev Ops, CI/CD, API‑based architectures, and Agile‑at‑scale models is essential.

• Demonstrate ability to lead software engineering teams through large‑scale transformation and recovery
• Have strong organizational design and…