About 100 engineers at this business don't have one team owning their tooling, their repo standards, or how AI actually fits into their day-to-day. That's the gap this role closes.

It's not DevOps - DevOps keeps pipelines and environments running. You'll build the golden paths that make the whole engineering org faster: standardised repo templates, CI baked in from day one, artefact management that doesn't get in anyone's way. You'll also take the lead on AI-assisted development - one team's already run a pilot from requirements through to testing, and it's sitting there waiting for someone to get it into production properly.
Split your week roughly in half. About half your week will be hands-on, writing tooling in Java or .NET. The rest is leading a small team of engineers.

What you'll need:

- Time spent leading platform, DevX or DevOps teams inside a software product company - or you're a Principal Engineer or Tech Lead ready to step into people leadership for the first time
- Real experience with Jenkins, Git-based workflows, artifact repositories, SonarQube or similar
- Something you've built or driven that other teams picked up and ran with themselves
- A solid grasp of how AI-assisted development actually works in practice,



from a real project or team you've been part of

Apply with an updated CV. Happy to talk through the detail before you do, reach out via email ••••@hudson.com

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