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Director of Enterprise Pipeline Engineering & Automation – CTO

As the Director of Enterprise Pipeline Engineering & Automation within PNC's CTO organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA, Birmingham, AL, Strongsville, Cleveland, OH, Dallas, TX, or Phoenix, AZ. This role will play a critical leadership position in transforming the CTO organization from a predominantly infrastructure-focused model into a software-driven, automated execution organization, enabling faster, safer, and more repeatable paths to production.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Transformation Leadership
  • Directs enterprise strategies, initiatives, policies, and programs for pipeline engineering, infrastructure automation, and software-driven delivery across the CTO organization.
  • Acts as a key transformation leader in the evolution from infrastructure-centric execution to software-first automation, influencing how the organization designs, builds, and operates technology.
  • Defines the enterprise vision for "path to production", including standards, architectural patterns, controls, and automation required to move from installed hardware to production-ready platforms.
• Architecture & Engineering
  • Architects and designs enterprise-scale software platforms, automation frameworks, and pipelines that support infrastructure creation, configuration, validation, and lifecycle management.
  • Leads the adoption of best practices in software architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, configuration management, testing automation, and system integration.
  • Partners with architecture, security, risk, and operations teams to ensure automation solutions are secure, resilient, compliant, and production-ready.
• Delivery & Execution
  • Works closely with delivery and development teams to turn architectural vision into execution through reusable services, tooling, and automation patterns.
  • Establishes clear engineering standards and reference implementations for teams building or consuming enterprise pipelines.
  • Drives measurable improvements in time to provision, deployment reliability, and operational stability through automation.
• Leadership & Talent Development
  • Directs, motivates, develops, and oversees the performance of management and senior engineering staff.
  • Builds a high-performing organization blending software engineers, automation engineers, and infrastructure domain experts.
  • Coaches leaders and engineers to think and operate as software product teams, not ad hoc project teams.
• Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement
  • Communicates with executive leadership, vendors, and suppliers to align on technology direction, tooling strategy, and platform capabilities.
  • Serves as a trusted partner across CTO, infrastructure, and platform organizations driving alignment without duplicating or displacing existing ownership.

Job Description

• Directs the strategies, initiatives, policies and programs for global infrastructure development, processes and teams support and management.
• Drives infrastructure planning, development strategies and initiatives; determines current and future enterprise infrastructure needs.
• Communicates with vendors, suppliers and executive management to ensure availability of infrastructure technologies and support.
• Leads the development and adoption of best practices for technology architecture and management.
• Directs, motivates, develops and oversees the performance of the management team and key staff.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Software Engineering & Architecture
• Infrastructure Automation & Platform Engineering
• CI/CD & Pipeline Engineering
• Information Security & Risk Alignment
• IT Architecture & Systems Integration
• Proven leadership over large scale, cross-enterprise initiatives
• Demonstrated success leading software-driven transformation within infrastructure, platform, or CTO organizations

Qualifications

• Information Security, IT Architecture, Network Administration, Network Support, Software Testing, System Administration
• Hardware Infrastructure, IT Architecture, IT Environment, IT Industry: Trends & Directions, IT Service Management (ITSM), IT Standards, Procedures & Policies, IT Systems Management, System and Technology Integration

Work Experience

Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree and higher level education such as a Masters degree, PhD, or certifications. Industry-relevant experience is typically 8+ years. At least 5 years of prior management experience is typically required. Proven leadership experience with a large scope of responsibility is required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job-specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education

Bachelors

Certifications

No Required Certification(s)

Licenses

No Required License(s)

Pay Transparency

Base Salary: $125,000.00 - $264,000.00. Salaries may vary based on geographic location, market data and on individual skills, experience, and education. This role is incentive eligible with the payment based upon company, business and/or individual performance.

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; backup child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives. In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

PNC provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other categories protected by law. This position is subject to the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) and, for any registered role, the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (SAFE Act) and/or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which prohibit the hiring of individuals with certain criminal history.