Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Scientific Games is the global leader in lottery games, sports betting and technology, and they are seeking a senior leader to accelerate software engineering across a global organization. The role focuses on improving developer workflows and engineering systems, while leveraging AI to enhance productivity and collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Accelerate software engineering across a global organization by improving developer workflows, engineering systems, and AI-enabled development practices
- Remove friction across the software delivery lifecycle including tooling, testing, code reviews, documentation, repository guidance, and team collaboration to help engineers build faster and more effectively
- Identify bottlenecks and drive scalable improvements across teams
- Build a small, high-impact team and lead SG’s approach to engineering acceleration, leveraging AI where it adds value while creating reusable systems, best practices, and measurable gains in productivity
Skills
- Deep experience across engineering systems, DevX, platform engineering, developer productivity, or internal tooling
- Strong working knowledge of modern AI development tools and agentic workflows
- Experience leading a developer productivity or platform team in a large engineering organization
- Experience building internal developer tooling and later growing into broader engineering systems leadership
- Strong software engineering background with experience helping teams use AI tools in a structured, practical way
- Strong engineering credibility
- Good judgment
- Clear writing skills
- Ability to differentiate between activity and progress
- Broad experience in software engineering, platform, DevX, or engineering systems work
- Experience leading cross-functional technical efforts across a large engineering organization
- Good feel for SDLC bottlenecks, testing maturity, CI/CD, review flow, and repo health
- Familiarity with AI coding tools, agentic coding patterns, repo-aware guidance, and evaluation methods
- Evidence of building shared systems or patterns that other engineers actually adopted
- Comfort working in a polyglot environment with different languages, repos, and local processes
- 12+ years of experience across software engineering, product engineering, platform engineering, or technical product development
- 5+ years leading efforts to help development teams build faster, with higher quality, and more joy
- Proven track record of building and delivering mechanisms that understand bottlenecks builders face and solve for them
- Experience operating effectively within large, complex systems, including legacy platforms
- Automating testing across unit, integration, contract, regression, performance, and end-to-end testing
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