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About the Role

As Director of Engineering, you are responsible for building the organization that makes Hawk-Eye's Performance & Insight products easy to build, scale, and maintain. Your mission is to build a lean organization with AI at the heart of it, capable of scaling through technology, addressing the needs of top-tier sport clients seeking access to data and insights to unlock the next level of performance. You will lead and manage a ~50-person organization including web/mobile/data/cloud engineering, aiming to scale the organization and productivity with AI delegation patterns wherever possible.

Responsibilities

Build and lead a high-calibre Product & Engineering function with strong technical credibility and operational judgement.
Hire, develop, and align engineering leaders and specialists across sports and disciplines within P&I.
Foster a culture of accountability, clarity, calm execution, and continuous improvement.
Act as a senior internal leader who can bring structure to complexity without becoming bureaucratic.
Live by and advocate Hawk-Eye’s values: Be Owners, Be Brave, Be Inclusive.
Create practical standards to enable strong reliability, platform quality, operational readiness, and shared data governance across the whole of Hawk-Eye’s engineering.
Balance central consistency with enough flexibility for different product and domain needs.
Partner with product and engineering leaders so shared platform and data standards improve delivery speed.
Identify systemic reliability risks, fragile dependencies, and operational bottlenecks early, and drive resolution.
Introduce visible service health, ownership, and numeric baselines for the critical systems under your remit.
Use major tournaments, flagship customers, and real operating pressure as proving grounds for improved resilience and trust.
Transition the P&I organization to structured and disciplined operational management.
Build the platform, data, and governance conditions required for AI-enabled software delivery to scale safely.
Ensure shared services, modular interfaces, and governed data access create the right foundations for future AI acceleration.
Provide leadership for internal engineering enablement through the Developer Experience function.
Define, build, and own Hawk-Eye’s internal Platform-as-a-Service.

Requirements

Strong technology leader with real experience building data-driven product capabilities in organizations where reliability, scale, and coordination matter.
Know-how in creating ownership, standards, operating discipline, and trust that make good engineering practices useful in practice.
Credible with senior engineers, comfortable in operationally demanding environments, and able to move between cloud infrastructure, data foundations, organizational design, and delivery reality.
Know how to centralize what must become shared capability without hollowing out the autonomy and judgment of teams that build on top of it.
Care about engineering quality and business consequence.
Understand that reliability protects customer trust, governed data creates leverage, and shared standards only matter when they make the organization materially better at delivering outcomes.

Skills

AI delegation patterns
Web engineering
Mobile engineering
Data engineering
Cloud engineering
Platform engineering
Developer Experience

Location

UK
Hungary
Basingstoke
London
Budapest

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Director

About the Company

Performance & Insight is the part of HawkEye that engineers data-driven digital products built by small sport-focused squads that move at a pace only agentic development makes possible.
HawkEye's mission is to build a lean organization with AI at the heart of it, capable of scaling through technology.
The organization addresses the needs of top-tier sport clients - clubs, leagues, federations - seeking access to data and insights to unlock the next level of performance.

Equal Opportunity

As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Sports Technology is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.
We employ, retain, promote and treat all employees and applicants fairly based on skills, qualifications and professional experience.
Our commitment is to provide a respectful and inclusive environment where people can contribute, develop and succeed.