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Engineering Team Lead - SDLC Tooling

Buffalo, NYFull-time$116k–$194k2026-07-23 → 2026-11-13

Core

Lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for the Enterprise Developer Experience and SDLC platform, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability of developer tools.

Role type

Senior Engineering Team Lead (Platform Engineering)

Builds

Enterprise Developer Experience and SDLC platform services including source code management, CI/CD, software quality, and supply chain security tools.

Domain

Enterprise Software Engineering / Platform Engineering

Required skills

Team leadership, strategic direction, technical oversight, vendor management, risk management, incident response, stakeholder management, budget forecasting, hiring and staffing, performance management.

Preferred skills

Enterprise Developer Experience, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platform (IDP), SDLC tooling, GitLab SCM/CI/CD, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, Mend, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, software supply chain security, AI-assisted development, DORA metrics.

Technologies

GitLab SCM, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab Duo, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, Mend, IDE ecosystems, Developer portals.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and manage a team of engineers; establish team priorities and career development plans; provide technical direction for enterprise developer platforms; drive adoption of enterprise standards and best practices; oversee platform engineering activities to improve productivity; partner with architecture and engineering teams on strategy; ensure platform resiliency and operational excellence; manage vendor relationships and technology evaluations; lead incident response and continuous improvement; provide executive updates on platform performance and risks.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities