Director of Digital Engineering

Job Posting Title

Director of Digital Engineering

Agency

090 OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTERPRISE SERV

Supervisory Organization

CIO

Job Posting End Date (Continuous if Blank)

August 07, 2025

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank)

Full/Part-Time

Full time

Job Type

Regular

Compensation

Salary is based on education and experience.

Job Description

As the Director of Digital Engineering with OMES you will enjoy:

• Generous leave including 15 days of vacation, 15 days of sick leave and 11 paid holidays annually.
• A comprehensive Benefit Package with a generous benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents.

Job Details

• Full-time 40-hour work weeks.
• Support the Information Services Division.
• Salary is based on education and experience.
• Position is on-site in Oklahoma City, OK.

Position Summary

The Director of Digital Engineering is a strategic leader responsible for transforming the application delivery function across agencies within the State of Oklahoma. This role is accountable for stabilizing legacy system support, accelerating modern engineering discipline, and transitioning State teams toward product-oriented and platform-driven delivery. Reporting to the State CTO, the Director of Digital Engineering will ensure application development execution enables strategic objectives around agency mission objectives, cost optimization, and citizen service outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Tech Strategy & Solution Delivery

• Oversee the end-to-end delivery of application development across legacy and modern systems
• Assess and optimize team structure, sourcing mix, and performance practices to drive consistency and delivery quality
• Establish and enforce delivery standards that support both waterfall and Agile/hybrid project models. Introduce foundational controls for work intake, estimation, resource planning, and milestone accountability

Application Portfolio Management

• Partner with ISD Strategic Pillars to assess and manage the enterprise application portfolio, aligning delivery with Agency mission value, enterprise fit, and modernization readiness
• Collaborate with Architects and Operational Leaders embedded in Strategic Pillars to evaluate technical health, lifecycle posture, and rationalization opportunities
• Support planning for remediation, upgrades, or retirement of high-risk or low-value legacy systems

Cloud Modernization

• Partner with the Cloud & Infrastructure teams to plan and execute modernization of legacy applications into cloud-native or hybrid cloud environments
• Lead readiness assessments of current applications, identifying rehosting, replatforming, or refactoring opportunities
• Ensure App Dev teams adopt modern cloud design patterns, including containerization, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code
• Collaborate with Cloud and Security architects to define guardrails, compliance requirements, and operational handoffs for production systems
• Drive alignment between cloud modernization initiatives and broader enterprise digital strategy, prioritizing resiliency, scalability, and cost efficiency

Customer Partnership & Operational Management

• Nurture relationships with agency partners through direct engagement, improved intake visibility, and consistent status reporting
• Establish shared expectations and success metrics with partner agencies and tower leaders
• Oversee day-to-day operations, team capacity, work planning, and employee engagement
• Build a staffing and sourcing model that supports both ongoing operations and long-term modernization
• Provide coaching, role clarity, and accountability frameworks for managers, team leads, and technical contributors

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• This position works in a comfortable office setting with a computer for a large percentage of the workday. The noise level in the work environment is usually mild. Occasional travel may be required.

Minimum Qualifications

Requirements include 10+ years of experience in application development, software engineering, or technology leadership roles and 5+ years leading cross-functional engineering or application teams, ideally across both legacy and modern stacks. Additionally, experience leading teams of 100 or more and experience navigating complex stakeholder environments and implementing delivery frameworks with a strong familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, API-based architectures, and Agile-at-scale models.

Preference will be given to candidates who

• Demonstrate ability to lead software engineering teams through large-scale transformation and recovery
• Strong organizational design and people leadership capabilities; experience rebuilding underperforming teams
• Ability to blend Agile, product, and platform practices with government constraints and legacy systems
• Executive presence with comfort engaging across business, technical, and public-sector leadership
• Commitment to public service, transparency, and measurable impact
• Experience working in or alongside government or large matrixed organizations preferred

About OMES

The Office of Management and Enterprise Services provides excellent service, expert guidance and continuous improvement in support of our partners’ goals. We are a highly qualified workforce committed to serve those who serve Oklahomans and make government run in the most efficient, innovative manner possible.

OMES is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities may be provided upon request.

Equal Opportunity Employment

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.

Current active State of Oklahoma employees must apply for open positions internally through the Workday Jobs Hub.