GBG

Tech / AI / Software

VPEngineeringEnablement&Operations

manchester, england, united kingdom FULL TIME
The Brief

“VP Engineering Enablement & Operations at GBG. Skills: AI & Emerging Technology Enablement, Developer Experience & Engineering Standards, Engineering Operations & Effectiveness, Vendor & Partner Management. Lead the strategy for adopting AI and emerging technologies across the engineering organization. Establish metrics to measure adoption, effectiveness, and impact on productivity, quality, and developer experience”

What You'll Achieve.

enabling a global engineering organization of 300 technology professionals to operate with speed, consistency, and excellence; driving adoption of emerging technologies (including AI); establishing shared frameworks and standards; building the operational systems that allow our teams to do their best work; strongly contribute both to how we create and how we grow our people; Establish metrics to measure adoption, effectiveness, and impact on productivity, quality, and developer experience; improve predictability, transparency, and execution across engineering; Define and track meaningful metrics related to engineering health, throughput, and operational performance; improve efficiency and effectiveness at scale; meaningfully improve developer productivity and organizational outcomes

Industry & Context.

Tech / AI / Software
Problems you'll solve

Identify systemic bottlenecks and lead initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness at scale

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Senior leadership experience in engineering enablement, operations, platform, or technology strategy roles, Demonstrated success supporting large-scale engineering organizations (100+ engineers) in distributed environments, operational mindset with experience building frameworks, metrics, and repeatable systems, Deep familiarity with modern engineering tooling, developer workflows, and AI-enabled development practices, Experience managing and negotiating with technology vendors and partners, influence skills and the ability to drive alignment without direct ownership of delivery teams, Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and executive audiences

What You'll Do.

Lead the strategy for adopting AI and emerging technologies across the engineering organization

Establish metrics to measure adoption

and impact on productivity

and developer experience

Partner with engineering leaders to embed AI-enabled tooling and workflows into everyday development practices

Ensure the organization stays current with industry best practices and advances in engineering enablement

Own the end-to-end developer experience across a globally distributed engineering team

Establish and evolve common frameworks and standards for engineering tooling and internal platforms

Establish and evolve common frameworks and standards for developer onboarding and ongoing enablement

Establish and evolve common frameworks and standards for hiring

and assessment practices

Establish and evolve common frameworks and standards for shared expectations for engineering quality and ways of working

Balance global consistency with local and team-level autonomy

Design and operate the systems that improve predictability

and execution across engineering

Define and track meaningful metrics related to engineering health

and operational performance

Identify systemic bottlenecks and lead initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness at scale

Support the CTO with data-driven insights on organizational health and investment priorities

Own strategic relationships with engineering tooling vendors

and service providers

Evaluate vendor performance

and alignment with engineering needs

Identify opportunities for optimization

and external funding where applicable

Ensure vendor decisions meaningfully improve developer productivity and organizational outcomes

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with engineering leaders to embed AI-enabled tooling and workflows into everyday development practices; collaboration skills across technical and executive audiences

Communication Scope

Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and executive audiences

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