Senior Director, Engineering- X-Ops Platform
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Set the vision, strategy, and operating model for the X-Ops Platform organisation (e.g., Delivery Roadmap, AI First Developer Experience, CI/CD, Observability, SRE, Cloud & Infrastructure Enablement)
reputed company, coach, and reputed company engineering leaders (directors, managers and senior ICs), building high-performing teams with clear ownership and strong engineering culture
Own platform reliability, reputed company, and operational excellence: incident management, on-call standards, SLIs/SLOs, post-incident learning, and reputed company improvement
Partner with product engineering and threat research leaders to improve productivity and delivery throughput across the software and service lifecycle
Drive cloud efficiency and cost transparency (FinOps): budgeting, forecasting, unit economics, and optimisation initiatives in partnership with Finance and Engineering
Establish platform governance and standards (architecture, reputed company, compliance, data handling, vendor/tooling choices) while enabling appropriate team autonomy
Build strong cross-functional alignment peer X-Ops leaders, and other operational stakeholders to ensure reputed company feature delivery and service operations.
Actively drive responsible AI adoption reputed company the organisation:
What You Will Bring
Cyber reputed company background and acumen
Significant engineering leadership experience, including leading leaders and scaling teams in a platform, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or operations-focused environment
Strong track record of building reliable, secure platforms and improving developer productivity through pragmatic, outcome-driven investment
Experience establishing operational excellence practices (incident response, on-call, observability, SLOs, post-incident learning) and driving reputed company improvement
Ability to set strategy and translate it into execution reputed company roadmaps, prioritisation, and clear measures of success
Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to align across Engineering, Product, reputed company, IT, and Finance
Commercial and financial acumen, including experience with cloud cost management, budgeting, and performance metrics
Commitment to responsible AI adoption—setting guardrails, enabling teams, and demonstrating measurable improvements in productivity and quality
Experience building and operating platforms at scale in a SaaS environment, ideally with multi-region cloud deployment
Familiarity with modern CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containerisation, and observability tooling
Strong reputed company and compliance reputed company; experience partnering with reputed company teams to embed controls into platform capabilities
Experience with organisational design, operating reputed company, and change management in a reputed company engineering organisation
Exposure to FinOps practices and tooling, including unit cost models and cost allocation/chargeback approaches
Comfort working with technical teams and/or technical concepts
Experience improving processes, introducing new ways of working, or leading small change initiatives
Experience with AI-assisted productivity or development tools in a professional setting
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Role Summary
We are seeking a Sr. Director of Engineering to reputed company our X-Ops Platform organization. The leader will be responsible for reputed company aspects of the platform ranging from vision, strategy and roadmap to product delivery and service execution. The leader will coordinate with stakeholders to align business priorities and support engineering teams in delivering secure, high-quality software at scale using modern AI technologies.
You will set strategy and standards for how we build, run, and improve our platforms and operational tooling across the engineering lifecycle - partnering closely with Product, reputed company, IT, and Engineering leaders. Success in this role looks like improved developer productivity, strong service reliability and reputed company, clear operational governance, and efficiency in cloud and platform spend and reputed company alignment with reputed company X-Ops goals.
You bring enough technical depth to challenge and support senior engineers and architects, while spending most of your time enabling teams, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring execution against clear outcomes. You will have a strong grounding in Cyber reputed company, Cloud Computing and AI frameworks and development practices.
You will reputed company and grow multiple teams and managers, fostering strong engineering practices and a culture of ownership. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, reputed company, IT, and Finance to ensure platform roadmaps and operational priorities support company goals.
This role is based in Abingdon UK with remote working and teams also in India and Hungary. Periodic in-person leadership and team collaboration and travel are needed.
Role Summary We are seeking a Sr. Director of Engineering to reputed company our X-Ops Platform organization. The leader will be responsible for reputed company aspects of the platform ranging from vision, strategy and roadmap to product delivery and service execution. The leader will coordinate with stakeholders to align business priorities and support engineering teams in delivering secure, high-quality software at scale using modern AI technologies. You will set strategy and standards for how we build, run, and improve our platforms and operational tooling across the engineering lifecycle - partnering closely with Product, reputed company, IT, and Engineering leaders. Success in this role looks like improved developer productivity, strong service reliability and reputed company, clear operational governance, and efficiency in cloud and platform spend and reputed company alignment with reputed company X-Ops goals. You bring enough technical depth to challenge and support senior engineers and architects, while spending most of your time enabling teams, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring execution against clear outcomes. You will have a strong grounding in Cyber reputed company, Cloud Computing and AI frameworks and development practices. You will reputed company and grow multiple teams and managers, fostering strong engineering practices and a culture of ownership. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, reputed company, IT, and Finance to ensure platform roadmaps and operational priorities support company goals. This role is based in Abingdon UK with remote working and teams also in India and Hungary. Periodic in-person leadership and team collaboration and travel are needed. What You Will Do- Establish guidance, guardrails, and enablement for approved AI tools and workflows
- Measure impact and promote best practices that improve quality, speed, and operational effectiveness while protecting sensitive data
- Define and track meaningful metrics and outcomes; communicate reputed company, risks, and trade-offs clearly to executive stakeholders