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Senior Manager Technology, DevOps
The Senior Technology Manager, DevOps, leads and champions engineering excellence and thought leadership for DevOps within Comerica Bank. As a senior figure within the Technology team, they will lead DevOps initiatives, drive the implementation of best practices and continuous improvement strategies to optimize the Comerica's software engineering and deployment processes. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish and maintain cutting-edge enterprise DevOps methodologies, fostering a culture of innovation and efficiency. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in DevOps, agile methodologies, cloud infrastructure, and automation tools, utilizing their extensive experience to drive transformative change and ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of our technology operating environment. This role requires exceptional leadership, strategic vision, and the ability to inspire, guide, and mentor teams to achieve exceptional results, playing a pivotal role in shaping Comerica Bank's technological future. A strong background and hands-on experience in implementing enterprise class DevOps practices, tools, and methodologies to streamline software engineering, deployment, and operations is also needed.
Ideal candidates show demonstrated leadership skills in managing and guiding technology teams fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. This leader will have an ability to envision and execute a strategic roadmap for enterprise DevOps capabilities while effectively managing projects, resources, and timelines that deliver capabilities in alignment with Comerica's technology and business strategies. This role also requires a proven track record in fostering innovation, problem-solving, and the ability to identify, strategize and implement improvements to Comerica's DevOps capabilities.
Position Responsibilities:
Strategy
- Partner with corporate functional leaders and execute a technology strategy that will enhance overall business capabilities.
- Stay abreast of technology industry trends and best practices.
- Continuously transform the organization to increase efficiencies and reduce overall expense.
- Partner with innovation team to test and learn emerging technology and its viable applicability to enhance corporate business capabilities.
Delivery Planning and Execution
- Create, prioritize, plan and execute portfolio/product roadmaps through collaboration with Product Management and DevOps, including the on-going resequencing of projects in the portfolio roadmap as priorities shift.
- Complete 90% of projects within 5-10% of approved funding and 1 month of baselined completion date. Reduce time to market by utilizing Agile methodologies.
- Provides insights on risks based on broad experience.
- Develops project risk profile, mitigation plan and contingency plan.
Technology/Operational/ Risk Control
- Lead integration and synergy between architecture/technology planning and development initiatives, providing direction and decisions in application development to support platforms.
- Cultivate good system management disciplines including clearly defined and documented roles and responsibilities, documented phase processes and checkpoint and detailed planning for system deployment.
- Ensures compliance and control activities support technology and enterprise business objectives and are aligned with executive risk tolerances and expectations.
- Ensures processes and controls within assigned area to enhance performance, security, reliability and availability of systems.
- Drive a continuous improvement and compliant culture through documented policies, procedures and architecture.
- Leads large size technical project teams or programs that span the enterprise.
- Manage the financials of the assigned area with attention to the details of budgets while exhibiting a strict cost discipline and financial performance.
- Manage and develop team cultivating a spirit of one team with shared goals and objectives.
- Select, motivate and retain high performing talent. Work with senior leaders to evolve culture and organizational behavior, elevating technology into a strategic partner.
- Act as the principal technology advisor to corporate organizations and a champion for identifying, leading, and driving information technology transformation.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or other relevant technology degrees or equivalent through a combination of education and/or technology experience or High School diploma or GED and 12 years of progressively responsible experience
- 8 years of Technology experience and proficiency
- 8 years of experience leading large, complex/critical technology projects
- 8 years of experience influencing strategy for large organizations
- 6 years of experience managing others
- This position is not eligible for sponsorship. Must have indefinite employment authorization
8:00am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday
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