Hawk-Eye Innovations (HEI)
Director of Platform Engineering
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Director of Platform Engineering
Location: UK preferred, office preferred Contract: Permanent full-time Start Date: ASAP
About the Role
As Director of Platform Engineering, you are responsible for building the shared foundations that make Hawk-Eye's technology organisation easier to trust, easier to scale, and easier to build on.
Your mission is to build a lean technical organisation with AI at the heart of it, capable of scaling through technology more than people.
Your clients are product and services teams seeking reliable infrastructure, available data, and scalable APIs.
This technical leadership role sits at the centre of Hawk-Eye engineering and defines and builds the foundations for platform and data engineering, enabling AI-driven workflows in product and technology development and capable to support mission-critical systems.
You will lead and manage Hawk-Eye’s Platform Engineering function. This includes domains such as:
- Cloud Engineering
- Data Engineering
- Developer Experience
- Additional domains incubated in Platform Engineering
Key Responsibilities
Enabling AI-Ready Foundations
- Build the platform, data, and governance conditions required for AI-enabled software delivery to scale safely.
- Ensure shared services, modular interfaces, and governed data access create the right foundations for future AI acceleration.
- Provide leadership for internal engineering enablement through the Developer Experience function.
- Define, build, and own Hawk-Eye’s internal Platform-as-a-Service.
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Team Leadership and Management
- Build and lead a high-calibre Platform Engineering function with strong technical credibility and operational judgement.
- Hire, develop, and align engineering leaders and specialists across platform, cloud, SRE, and data disciplines.
- Foster a culture of accountabilty, clarity, calm execution, and continuous improvement.
- Act as a senior internal leader who can bring structure to complexity without becoming bureaucratic.
- Live by and advocate Hawk-Eye’s values: Be Owners, Be Brave, Be Inclusive.
Engineering Standards and Shared Ways of Working
- Create practical standards to enable strong reliability, platform quality, operational readiness, and shared data governance across Hawk-Eye’s engineering.
- Balance central consistency with enough flexibility for different product and domain needs.
- Partner with product engineering leaders to ensure shared platform and data standards improve delivery speed.
Operational Leadership
- Identify systemic reliability risks, fragile dependencies, and operational bottlenecks early and drive resolution.
- Introduce visible service health, ownership, and numeric baselines for critical systems under your remit.
- Use major tournaments, flagship customers, and real operating pressure as proving grounds for improved resilience and trust.
- Transition the wider organisation to structured and disciplined operational management.
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About You
You are a strong technology leader with real experience building shared platforms and data capabilities in organisations where reliability, scale, and coordination matter.
You understand that building the foundations is as important as choosing the right architecture. The harder part is creating the ownership, standards, operating discipline, and trust that make good architecture usable in practice.
You are credible with senior engineers, comfortable in operationally demanding environments, and able to move fluently between:
- Cloud infrastructure
- Data foundations
- Organisational design
- Delivery realities
without losing strategic focus.
You know how to:
- Centralise what must become shared capability without hollowing out an organisation's autonomy and judgement.
- Care deeply about engineering quality.
- Recognise that reliability protects customer trust, governed data creates leverage, and shared standards only matter when they make the organisation materially better at delivering outcomes.
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