Developer Experience and Engineering Operations Lead

Dublin, Dublin

Data Engineering

128000

Permanent

Our client, a global AI and data-driven organization, are hiring a Developer Experience and Engineering Operations Lead to join their growing team in Dublin, Ireland. The successful candidate will help improve how engineering teams work by making software delivery faster, more consistent and less complex across global function by removing friction across the delivery lifecycle and enabling secure, high-quality and scalable software delivery at pace.

Responsibilities

Own and deliver the Developer Experience and Engineering Operations roadmap, improving how engineers build, test, release and operate software.
Identify and address friction points across the software development life-cycle using data, feedback and engineering insight.
Design and implement pragmatic engineering standards, golden paths, reusable templates and delivery playbooks.
Drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted development, including coding assistants and workflow automation.
Define clear guardrails for AI usage, including prompt patterns, quality expectations and security boundaries.
Promote adoption of internal AI platform capabilities, enabling governed reuse of AI-enabled solutions.
Improve engineering operations across onboarding, documentation, knowledge sharing and operating cadences.
Enhance CI/CD pipelines, observability, environment management, release processes and delivery transparency.
Partner with Architecture, Platform, Cloud, Security and Product Engineering teams to improve end-to-end delivery capability.

Skillset

Strong background in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or engineering operations.
Proven track record of improving developer productivity across multiple teams or large organisations.
Deep understanding of modern SDLC practices, including cloud-native development, CI/CD, APIs, observability and automation.
Experience defining engineering standards, golden paths or reusable playbooks.
Familiarity with modern engineering toolchains such as GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD platforms, IaC, containers, developer portals and AI tools.
Strong stakeholder management and influence across engineering, architecture, security and product teams.
Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development, including LLMs, prompt engineering and agentic workflows is a plus.
Cloud platform experience with AWS, Azure or GCP is an advantage.