Executive Director, DevOps Engineering Excellence

Executive Director, Dev Ops Engineering Excellence### Executive Director, Dev Ops Engineering Excellence Apply:
VA - Reston, 11951 Freedom Dr Ste 900:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
November 3, 2026 (5 days left to apply):
R447086

Free Wheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
** Job Summary
** This role will be responsible for leading several supporting teams that enable enhanced velocity of our Freewheel engineering organization and overall enterprise. Freewheel's PMO, EDM, CIT, and EAS functions are key elements of Dev Ops that strengthen engineering execution, platform reliability, and delivery velocity. This role sets operating direction, aligns strategic technology investment, improves execution discipline, and enables engineering teams to deliver faster, more predictable, and higher-quality outcomes.
** Job Description
**** CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
*** Lead the Dev Ops Engineering Excellence organization, establishing the strategy, operating model, governance, and execution framework that enables Engineering to deliver technology solutions with speed, quality, reliability, and cost efficiency.
* Own the engineering operating model across portfolio management (PMO), delivery management, corporate technology services, and enterprise application platforms, ensuring alignment between business priorities, technology investments, and execution outcomes.
* Establish and continuously improve Dev Ops governance, planning, and investment management processes that drive transparency, accountability, prioritization discipline, and measurable business value from technology initiatives.
* Build and scale a high-performing Engineering Delivery Management (EDM) function that enables predictable execution, release excellence, SDLC maturity, delivery visibility, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.
* Lead the strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management of enterprise engineering and collaboration platforms (EAS), including engineering workflow, productivity, communication, identity, and knowledge-management systems.
* Oversee Corporate Information Technology (CIT) services supporting the engineering organization, including end-user technology, onboarding, access management, service operations, support processes, and employee technology experience.
* Develop and operationalize engineering excellence frameworks, metrics, and governance mechanisms that improve delivery velocity, quality, reliability, security, operational maturity, and organizational effectiveness.
* Partner closely with Product, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering leadership to remove organizational friction, improve cross-functional alignment, and accelerate delivery of strategic business outcomes.
* Drive organizational transformation initiatives that modernize engineering practices, improve operational efficiency, strengthen accountability, and create a culture of continuous improvement and execution excellence.
* Establish executive-level metrics, reporting, and operating rhythms that provide visibility into portfolio health, delivery performance, engineering productivity, technology investments, operational effectiveness, and business impact.
* Lead, develop, and inspire a diverse organization of leaders and professionals by fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, inclusion, and measurable results.
* Exercise sound judgment and influence on…