Senior Director, DevSecOps Engineering
Company: Travelers
Location: Saint Paul
Posted on: January 24, 2023
Job Description:
Who Are We?Taking care of our customers, our communities and
each other. Thats the Travelers Promise. By honoring this
commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best
property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join
us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives
on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do
it.Job CategoryTechnologyCompensation OverviewThe annual base
salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market
range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across
the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined
by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and
location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials
and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of
employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits
program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash
incentive awards.Salary Range$139,900.00 - $230,900.00Target
Openings1What Is the Opportunity?Travelers is seeking a Senior
Director of Software Engineering with a focus on DevSecOps
Engineering to join our organization as we grow and transform our
Technology landscape. As a baseline function of the role,
individual will complete expert end to end engineering tasks as
well as manage and lead the development and work products of
software engineers. Individual will also plan and execute at a
strategic level, lead and influence resources and outcomes, lead
the design, development and implementation of significantly
complex, unscoped problems that extend beyond the confines of a
team, and establish software engineering best practices and
standards.Specific to the DevSecOps lead role, individual will
manage BIs CI/CD automated pipelines, drive contribution to and
adoption of enterprise pipelines, transition existing custom
pipelines to enterprise approved pipelines and ensure that delivery
teams have a positive experience where they are empowered and
enabled to get work done quickly with as little friction and toil
as possible. Individual lead the design, development and
implementation of reusable actions, quality gates, pipeline
templates, etc. to enable delivery teams to quickly build and
delivery software with end-to-end automation. He/she will operate
in a Chapter context where we provide horizontal support across all
the delivery team in Business Insurance and where we adopt and
contribute to the development and evolution of Travelers enterprise
pipelines. A key goal is providing self-service capabilities to
engineers to eliminate hand-offs and empower teams to build and
deliver fast.What Will You Do?
- Lead a team of Software Engineers while role modeling
Travelers' leadership behaviors.
- Complete expert engineering tasks for impactful and
high-visibility initiatives.
- Build and develop discipline-specific capabilities across
multiple teams, equipping individuals with the skills, tools, and
standard approaches to improve the overall quality of engineering
practices and skill sets.
- Manage CI/CD automated pipelines
- Drive contribution to and adoption of enterprise pipelines
- Transition existing custom pipelines to enterprise approved
pipelines
- Ensure that delivery teams have a positive experience where
they are empowered and enabled to get work done quickly with as
little friction and toil as possible.
- Lead the design, development and implementation of reusable
actions, quality gates, pipeline templates and other elements of
automated pipelines.
- Assess skill gaps and develop mitigation efforts including
training needs.
- Align work with business and engineering priorities to realize
meaningful impact.
- Build collaborative relationships with key leaders and peers
across the organization (i.e. Team Leaders, CoEs) to ensure the
best use of overall resources.
- Develop robust talent pipeline. Provide unique opportunities
and challenges to each team member to enrich development.
- Provide technical leadership, foster a team environment, and
provide mentorship and feedback to technical resources.
- Apply knowledge of current industry trends and techniques to
formulate solutions within the context of assigned efforts.
- May assist as an individual contributor to an Agile Product
Team (e.g. managing and prioritizing the team's backlog, developing
solutions to achieve defined business outcomes) in addition to
leading a team.
- Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and
capabilities.
- Perform other duties as assigned.What Will Our Ideal Candidate
Have?
- Seven years of programming/development experience plus two
years prior technical leadership experience preferred.
- Delivery - Advanced delivery skills including the ability to
examine and assess the effectiveness of software design strategies
and methodologies across an organization, the ability to devise,
apply, and share ways to ensure the quality, production readiness,
and continued health of complex computer systems, the ability to
incorporate awareness and understanding of work happening outside
of the team, and the ability to develop widely used technical
metrics that enable engineers to better understand and deliver
their work.
- Domain Expertise - Demonstrated track record of domain
expertise including the ability to leverage expertise to improve
company level capabilities within domain, consult on business
priorities and optimize value by identifying business aligned
solutions and thoughtfully and practically introduce concepts and
technologies from the industry.
- DevSecOps Domain Specific Experience - Demonstrated experience
leading teams to build CI/CD pipelines for multiple technology
stacks, experience with Blue/Green and Canary deploys, experience
with Git (either GitHub or GitLab or both) and experience helping
teams to transition from custom or no pipelines. The ability to
work across multiple teams in the context of a COE, Chapter or CoP
is highly desirable.
- Problem Solving - Strong problem solver who creates
architecture that is particularly robust against single points of
failure, both in terms of systems and people and looks ahead 6-12
months to identify areas of need and turns this into action.
- Communication - Strong communicator who possesses the ability
to describe technology concepts in ways the business can
understand, document effectively so that systems/architectures can
be maintained or built upon, collaborate across disparate groups,
helping to identify common goals and gain consensus, adapt language
to meet the needs of various levels of technical and non-technical
audiences and model and assist others in the practice of mindful
communication, active listening, and messaging.
- Leadership - Advanced leadership skills including the ability
to leverage internal networks across engineering and engage with
other leaders to solve problems and develop strong credibility
throughout the company as well as choose the most critical
engineering challenges and work to improve the entire engineering
organization by teaching others and sharing knowledge while
creating opportunities for others to showcase and develop
skills.What is a Must Have?
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or
its equivalent in work experience.
- Five years of programming/development experience.
- One year of experience of technical leadership.What Is in It
for You?
- Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members
including spouses, domestic partners, and children are eligible for
coverage from the first day of employment.
- Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions
dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to
an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in
the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment
toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual
contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a
Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
- Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of
20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company
Holidays.
- Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised
of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness
goals. In addition, our Life Balance program provides access to
professional counseling services, life coaching and other resources
to support your daily life needs. Through Life Balance, youre
eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed
therapist.
- Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the
communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved.
Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that
enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.Employment
PracticesTravelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the
unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our
organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from
our differences.If you are a candidate and have specific questions
regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an
email (4-ESU@travelers.com) so we may assist you.Travelers reserves
the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level
included in this posting.To learn more about our comprehensive
benefit programs please visit
http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/ .
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