VPSVP Head of Developer Experience (DevEx)

The Head of Developer Experience is a senior technical leadership role within Market Engineering responsible for advancing secure engineering practices across SGXs mission-critical financial market systems. The role leads high-impact DevSecOps initiatives sets engineering standards and drives secure resilient and compliant delivery at enterprise scale.

We are looking for a proven DevSecOps leader with strong technical depth delivery ownership and stakeholder influence. You will lead cross-functional projects guide engineering and security direction and be accountable for work with high visibility to senior management.

• CI/CD Engineering: Define enterprise pipeline standards and automation practices.
• Infrastructure as Code: Establish IaC standards and platform automation capabilities.
• DevSecOps: Establish DevSecOps standards and security automation patterns.
• Developer Experience (DevEx): Lead developer experience initiatives and engineering enablement.
• Platform Engineering: Lead platform engineering practices and capabilities.
• Environment Management: Lead environment strategy and engineering self-service adoption.
• Engineering Tooling: Define engineering tooling standards and governance.
• Automation Engineering: Lead enterprise workflow automation programmes.
• Compliance Automation: Establish policy-as-code and compliance automation standards.
• Platform Leadership: Lead DevOps capability development and standardisation across teams.
• Agentic AI for Platform & Operations: Lead the domains design of reusable agentic platform services that reduce engineering toil improve DevEx automate compliance evidence and integrate agents into CI/CD cloud environment security and observability workflows.
• Own high-visibility projects or workstreams with clear accountability for outcomes delivery milestones risks dependencies and senior management updates.
• Provide senior-level security architecture input threat modelling and secure design guidance for new products platforms and major technology changes.

• Experience: Significant experience in DevSecOps security engineering platform engineering or technology leadership within complex high-availability environments; financial services or regulated industry experience is strongly advantageous.
• Track record: Proven ability to lead projects workstreams or engineering teams with clear accountability for outcomes stakeholder alignment risk management and execution quality including delivering work with high management visibility.
• Technical stack: Strong hands-on knowledge of secure SDLC CI/CD SAST/DAST SCA container security secrets management compliance-as-code and policy-as-code with practical expertise across Jenkins GitLab CI/CD Terraform Docker Kubernetes AWS Azure GCP Python Bash or PowerShell and observability platforms such as ELK Datadog and Coralogix.
• Standards & environment: Strong grounding in IAM encryption secure configuration vulnerability management incident response technology risk and security standards such as OWASP NIST and CIS Benchmarks.
• Communication & leadership: Strong communication influencing and stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge constructively and guide teams toward secure pragmatic and sustainable outcomes.
• Education & certifications: Degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Security or related discipline; relevant cloud DevOps security or architecture certifications are advantageous.