Senior SDLC Tooling engineer

Responsible at the expert level for engineering, operating, and evolving enterprise Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Developer Experience platforms. Drives technical strategy, standards, adoption, automation, and continuous improvement across the software delivery ecosystem while ensuring the stability, scalability, security, and resiliency of critical engineering services.

Serves as a senior technical leader and subject matter expert for enterprise developer platforms, enabling software engineers to efficiently and securely develop, test, deploy, and maintain applications throughout the software development lifecycle. Provides technical leadership, platform expertise, and engineering guidance while partnering across Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and Application Development teams. Adapted from the existing Lead Engineer role expectations and scope

Responsibilities

Design, engineer, administer, and continuously improve Enterprise Developer Experience and SDLC platform capabilities supporting software delivery across the organization.

Serve as the technical expert and platform owner for enterprise developer tooling

Skills

Must have

GitLab Source Code Management (SCM)

GitLab CI/CD

GitLab Duo and AI-assisted development capabilities

GitLab Runners and pipeline infrastructure

GitLab Governance and compliance controls

SonarQube

JFrog Artifactory

Mend Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Integrated Development Environments (VS Code, IntelliJ, Eclipse, and related tooling)

Developer portals and self-service engineering capabilities

DevSecOps and software supply chain security tooling

Build, test, deployment, and release automation platforms

Nice to have

Hands-on experience with:

Delphix

SmartBear Zephyr

Selenium

Playwright

Cucumber

Postman

GitLab

GitLab CI/CD

Jira

REST Assured

Experience defining enterprise testing standards, governance models, and automation strategies.

Experience leading quality engineering transformation initiatives.

Experience with cloud-native testing in Azure, AWS, or hybrid cloud environments.

Experience implementing enterprise Test Data Management programs.

Experience implementing AI-enabled testing and intelligent automation capabilities.

Experience serving as an architecture lead, principal engineer, or technical authority.

Strong influencing, consulting, mentoring, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.

Financial services or other highly regulated industry experience preferred.

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior