Director of Engineering Productivity and Operations
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Manchester - UK
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Job Summary
Are you ready to shape the future of data
Matillion is the company behind Maia the AI Data Automation platform.
In the AI economy demand for data is exploding. Manual data engineering cant keep up. Maia fixes that by combining 15 years of data expertise with agentic AI to eliminate the manual work that slows data teams down. Organisations like Cisco DocuSign and Slack are already using it to deliver real business impact faster.
We started in Manchester and now were global - with teams across the UK US and India.
We are driven curious energetic people who move fast think big and hold ourselves to a high standard. Were here to make a dent in the universe bigger than ourselves. And were looking for people who want to be part of it.
About the Role
Were looking for a Director of Engineering Productivity & Operations to lead how our engineering organisation builds delivers and operates the Maia platform. Youll own the strategy and execution behind our engineering productivity agenda including the evolution of our software development lifecycle towards an increasingly agentic model alongside the operational disciplines that keep engineering efficient: metrics reporting cloud and tooling spend and vendor management. Working closely with engineering leaders across the business and with Finance youll lead a team spanning developer experience release engineering and CloudOps and have real scope to shape the role and make it your own.
Setting and leading the engineering productivity strategy driving the move towards an agentic software delivery model across planning coding testing review and deployment.
Owning the roadmap for shared engineering platforms and delivery capabilities including CI/CD release automation observability and the developer experience.
Running the engineering operating rhythm and a trusted metrics framework giving leadership clear visibility of delivery quality reliability and cost.
Leading engineering FinOps and cloud cost optimisation working with your CloudOps analysts to build forecasting accountability and sustainable savings.
Managing the engineering tooling portfolio end to end including vendor evaluation contract negotiation and renewals in partnership with Finance Procurement Legal and Security.
Significant engineering leadership experience in SaaS cloud platform DevOps developer experience SRE or engineering productivity organisations.
A practical understanding of AI-assisted and agentic software development ideally having led a team that builds AI agents or tooling for engineers or a genuine drive to learn it fast.
Experience running engineering operations with a track record of measuring productivity through outcomes rather than activity.
Hands-on experience with cloud cost management vendor and contract management and technical procurement.
Excellent communication and sound commercial judgement with the ability to influence engineering finance and executive stakeholders.
More about Matillion
We operate a flexible working culture that promotes work-life balance with benefits including:
Company Equity
30 days holiday bank holiday
5 days paid volunteering leave
Private Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Pension
Access to mental health support
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About Company
Matillion helps teams get data business-ready, faster. Thousands of enterprises trust us to load, transform, sync, and orchestrate their data in the cloud.
