Pillar Lead - Engineering Tooling & Patterns

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The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to shape the future of engineering enablement by driving the adoption of modern tooling, automation frameworks, DevSecOps practices, and self-service capabilities. You will influence engineering teams across the enterprise, define standards and best practices, and lead initiatives that simplify delivery, strengthen compliance, and accelerate business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical discussions and implementation strategies to drive adoption of standardised engineering tooling, automation patterns, and self-service workflows.
• Own and continuously enhance the engineering golden path catalogue, ensuring patterns and automation assets remain current, discoverable, and fit for purpose.
• Drive automation and orchestration adoption across cloud-native and hybrid environments.
• Partner with engineering, platform, security, and business stakeholders to align tooling investments with strategic priorities.
• Deliver Centre of Excellence outcomes through both technical leadership and hands-on execution.
• Define and communicate engineering tooling and automation roadmaps in partnership with senior technology leaders.
• Embed security, compliance, and governance requirements into engineering platforms and delivery frameworks by design.
• Design and enable self-service onboarding and lifecycle management capabilities for engineering teams.
• Act as a trusted SME for engineering tools, DevSecOps, automation, and platform engineering practices.
• Drive continuous improvement through adoption metrics, stakeholder feedback, and lessons learned.
• Uplift organisational engineering maturity through standards, communities of practice, coaching, and enablement activities.

About You

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of modern engineering tooling ecosystems, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and automation frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to assess, evaluate, and recommend tooling solutions across diverse engineering environments.
• Experience influencing engineering practices and driving adoption without direct ownership of platforms or tools.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Proven ability to translate strategic objectives into practical implementation outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of engineering governance, security, compliance, and operational standards.
• Experience working in complex enterprise technology environments with multiple stakeholder groups.
• Ability to balance technical depth, commercial considerations, and delivery outcomes.
• Strong leadership capability, with experience guiding teams, influencing decisions, and driving change through expertise.

Desirable

• Experience establishing or operating Engineering Centres of Excellence.
• Expertise in cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, developer platforms, and automation orchestration.
• Experience implementing developer self-service capabilities and internal developer platforms.
• Knowledge of Agile, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and platform engineering practices.