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About the Role

Awin is seeking an exceptional engineering leader to shape the future of how engineers build, ship, and operate software at scale. This role owns the end-to-end developer experience strategy, drives AI-native engineering practices, modernizes the cloud platform, and leads teams and tooling to enable engineering excellence. It's a high-impact leadership position at the intersection of engineering excellence, platform strategy, and AI innovation, defining and delivering the developer experience (DevEx) vision to ensure engineers are highly productive and satisfied. The role involves owning the platform strategy on AWS, leading FinOps, and spearheading the rollout of AI-augmented development workflows. The candidate will act as an internal champion for engineers, gathering insights, driving improvements, and collaborating with leadership and stakeholders to enable product teams to deliver value at scale. This is a senior but hands-on role reporting to the Director of Engineering.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve Awin's Developer Experience programme, defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for DevEx improvement.
Identify friction points, productivity blockers, and systemic inefficiencies through data, qualitative research, and direct engagement with engineering teams.
Drive organisation-wide improvements to technology, tooling, and engineering processes, building consensus with key stakeholders.
Establish and track DevEx metrics and KPIs (e.g. DORA metrics, developer satisfaction scores) to demonstrate impact and guide investment decisions.
Own the developer tools portfolio and associated budgets, evaluating, procuring, and retiring tools.
Lead strategic assessment and rollout of new developer tooling, including CI/CD platforms, IDE capabilities, code quality and security tools.
Lead Awin's AI engineering rollout, defining the strategy for AI-native software development and scaling adoption.
Evaluate and implement AI-augmented development tools including AI coding assistants, agentic development environments, automated code review, test generation, and intelligent CI/CD pipelines.
Champion modern AI-native software development best practices and drive continuous evaluation of the AI tooling landscape.
Design and deliver enablement programmes (training, communities of practice, documentation, workshops) to accelerate AI fluency.
Measure and report on the impact of AI adoption on developer productivity, code quality, and time-to-market.
Lead the strategy and execution of cloud platform standardisation across Awin's AWS estate, establishing golden paths, reference architectures, and platform abstractions.
Drive cloud migration efforts and infrastructure modernisation initiatives, partnering with Product teams to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and security.
Own AWS cost management and FinOps practices, establishing budgeting frameworks, implementing cost allocation and tagging strategies, and identifying optimisation opportunities.
Build out internal developer platform capabilities to abstract cloud complexity and accelerate developer self-service.
Ensure cloud platform decisions prioritize developer experience alongside cost efficiency, security, and scalability.
Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team spanning developer experience, platform engineering, and tooling functions.
Act as a collaborative, influential engineering leader, shaping Awin's technical culture, engineering standards, and ways of working.
Contribute to the engineering leadership team, participating in strategic planning, headcount discussions, and broader organisational design.

Requirements

Significant experience in and passion for software engineering, with hands-on coding background in one or more major languages (e.g. Java, TypeScript).
Strong understanding of AI-native software development – including AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot), agentic development workflows, and LLM-integrated toolchains.
Proven leadership experience in developer experience, platform engineering, developer productivity, or a related engineering leadership role within a mid-to-large scale technology organisation.
Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, engineering best practices, and what makes engineering teams highly productive.
Demonstrable experience leading and improving CI/CD practices, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling ecosystems.
Strong background in AWS – comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform), container platforms, serverless patterns, and cloud-native architectures.
Experience with FinOps or cloud cost management, including budgeting, tagging strategies, and cost optimisation at scale.
Track record of successfully delivering organisation-wide change programmes in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.
Experience designing and using developer experience metrics frameworks (e.g. DORA, SPACE, DX Core 4) to measure and improve developer productivity.
Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire, and grow engineering teams in a fast-paced, distributed environment.
Strong commercial awareness – experience managing budgets, building business cases, and making tool and investment decisions with clear ROI thinking.
Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery; comfortable operating from vision through to execution.
Experience working in global, distributed engineering organisations across multiple time zones and cultures.

Skills

AI-native software development
AI coding assistants
Agentic development workflows
LLM-integrated toolchains
Developer experience
Platform engineering
Developer productivity
CI/CD practices
Deployment pipelines
Developer tooling ecosystems
AWS
Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
Container platforms
Serverless patterns
Cloud-native architectures
FinOps
Cloud cost management
Budgeting
Tagging strategies
Cost optimisation
Developer experience metrics frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DX Core 4)
Team leadership
Budget management
Business case development
ROI analysis

Location

Multiple countries

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Four-day Flexi-Week at full pay
Hybrid/remote working scheme
Monthly allowance for running costs
Furniture package for home workspace
Health and wellbeing support
Access to Awin Academy for professional and personal growth
Peer-to-peer recognition programme
Additional benefits discussed during interview

About the Company

Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.
Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.
Diversity & Inclusion are paramount, we champion uniqueness and authenticity.
Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem.
Awin is part of the Axel Springer group.

Equal Opportunity

We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences.
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