Technology Executive, Head of Hardware and Appliances Engineering, Certification and Automation

Location: Pennington

Description

The Head of Hardware and Appliances Engineering, Certification and Automation Executive will drive the implementation and delivery of technology solutions in support of consistent infrastructure build and deployment automation and certification aligned to converged infrastructure delivery strategy.

This Executive will be responsible for evaluation of technology solutions, development and implementation of automation, and solutions to enable a validated, certified, and consistent infrastructure provisioning, and is expected to be fluent in software engineering and development practices, and infrastructure engineering and delivery at scale in a large, regulated enterprise.

This role blends deep infrastructure expertise with modern software engineering and automation practices.

The ideal candidate will drive the design, development, and evolution of Hardware engineering, certification, and automation platforms that power scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise environments.

This is a critical leadership role with high visibility and impact, perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure engineering, cloud native architecture, and software defined automation.

This role partners with Engineering, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Risk, Development, CIO leadership, and Product Delivery teams, and other key partner areas across Cloud and Data Center services and Core Technology Infrastructure (CTI) teams to deliver hardware and appliance deployment and infrastructure fulfillment solutions that drive and scale self-service cloud computing capabilities with continuous improvement in a converge infrastructure paradigm across our data center and hosting locations.

The mandate is to help the bank scale cloud adoption and infrastructure delivery safely while minimizing excess infrastructure expense, wasted capacity, optimized demand management and fulfillment, and leverage repeatable hardware solutions to promote optimized data center and workload placement, endure optimized capacity, and to reduce and attempt to eliminate bespoke hardware and infrastructure deployments whenever possible.

Required Qualifications

20+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering with at least 10 years in leadership roles.

Strong software development background with proficiency in languages such as Python, Go, Java or Scripting Languages.

Deep expertise in virtualization, Containerization (Kubernetes) and operating system, storage/networking systems.

Proven experience with Intel and AMD Hardware engineering and certification.

Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, etc.) and automation frameworks.

Solid understanding of distributed systems and modern cloud infrastructure patterns.

Record of leading engineering teams through agile development and dev-ops practices.

Exceptional communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Desired skills

Thinks Strategically:
Considers business priorities to form fact-based opinions and sound recommendations.

Deep expertise in virtualization, automation, and converged infrastructure products and solutions

Familiarity with application and infrastructure CI/CD

Expertise in testing and automation validation

Deep expertise in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure), operational telemetry, and modern SRE practices.

Experience in managing teams and delivering results in a complex and large-scale enterprise environment.

Experience working in a highly regulated environment.

Strong leadership presence with ability to influence across engineering, security, risk, and business teams.

Familiarity with modern product and agile operating models, and how to deliver at speed and scale within these models.

Experience driving a vision implementing products and services aligned to an enterprise strategy, risk models, and at scale.

Ability to recognize implementation planning opportunity to optimize cross-project dependencies for greater efficiency in project delivery.

Holds self and others accountable for high performance standards.

Maximizes the potential in people.

Skills:

Business Acumen

Financial Management

Influence

Result Orientation

Risk Management

Analytical Thinking

Collaboration

Data Management

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Architecture

Dev Ops Practices

Solution Delivery Process

Solution Design

User Experience Design

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101), US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)
Pay and benefits information

Pay range$ - $ annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the…