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Matillion is seeking a Director of Engineering Productivity and Operations to lead the company's engineering operations strategy and execution. The role reports to senior leadership and owns the engineering productivity roadmap, platform capabilities, and operational excellence across a global engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Set and lead the engineering productivity strategy, driving adoption of agentic software delivery models across planning, coding, testing, review, and deployment phases.
- Own the roadmap for shared engineering platforms and delivery capabilities, including CI/CD, release automation, observability, and developer experience.
- Establish and run the engineering operating rhythm with a trusted metrics framework, providing leadership with clear visibility into delivery, quality, reliability, and cost metrics.
- Lead engineering FinOps and cloud cost optimization initiatives, working with CloudOps analysts to build forecasting models, accountability structures, and sustainable cost savings.
- Manage the engineering tooling portfolio end-to-end, including vendor evaluation, contract negotiation, renewals, and partnerships with Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Security teams.
About Matillion:
Matillion is the company behind Maia, an AI Data Automation platform that combines 15 years of data expertise with agentic AI to eliminate manual work in data engineering. Customers include Cisco, DocuSign, and Slack. The company was founded in Manchester and now operates globally with teams across the UK, US, and India.
Requirements:
- Significant engineering leadership experience in SaaS, cloud platforms, DevOps, developer experience, SRE, or engineering productivity organizations.
- Practical understanding of AI-assisted and agentic software development; ideally have led a team building AI agents or tooling for engineers, or demonstrated ability to learn this domain quickly.
- Experience running engineering operations with a track record of measuring productivity through outcomes rather than activity metrics.
- Hands-on experience with cloud cost management, vendor management, contract negotiation, and technical procurement.
- Excellent communication skills and sound commercial judgment; ability to influence engineering, finance, and executive stakeholders.
