VP Engineering Enablement – Operations
GBG Plc
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chester • United Kingdom
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About the role
- 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.
- 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.
- Design and operate the systems that improve predictability, transparency, and execution across engineering.
- Own strategic relationships with engineering tooling vendors, technology partners, and service providers.
Requirements
- Senior leadership experience in engineering enablement, operations, platform, or technology strategy roles.
- Demonstrated success supporting large-scale engineering organizations (100+ engineers) in distributed environments.
- Strong 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.
- Strong influence skills and the ability to drive alignment without direct ownership of delivery teams.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and executive audiences.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AIengineering enablementmetricsframeworksdeveloper workflowsAI-enabled development practicessystems designpredictabilitytransparencyexecution
Soft Skills
leadershipoperational mindsetinfluence skillscommunication skillscollaboration skills