Developer Experience Leader - Platform & AI Tooling

OpenTalent; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuix is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own and grow our Developer Experience function. You’ll lead a small internal product team that builds tooling, standards, automation, and workflows for ~100 engineers to ship software.

This role defines what great looks like across our developer toolchain, drives AI-enabled development lifecycle, and partners with engineering to accelerate delivery while maintaining governance. Hybrid in Sydney, three days in the office.

Qualifications

• Experience leading developer experience teams or internal product teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tooling and engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and governance considerations.
• Ability to drive platform strategy and standardisation across multiple engineering squads.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the developer platform strategy.
• Own the roadmap for developer experience tooling across all engineering teams.
• Build and maintain standardised repository templates with CI, testing, linting, security scanning, dependencies and docs scaffolding.
• Design and operate our artifact repository strategy, including structure, retention and usability.
• Drive automation for release notes and changelog generation using metadata from commits, branches, tags and PRs.
• Evaluate and introduce new tooling to improve developer flow, code quality and delivery speed.
• Ensure internal tools (VCS, CI, code quality, artifact management, security scanning) are well-maintained and easy to use.
• Lead AI-enabled development practices and guardrails across engineering teams.
• Own the AI-DLC adoption strategy and measurement across engineering.

Skills

Leadership

Developer Experience

Platform tooling

AI in development

Tools

Git

CI pipelines

Artifact repositories

Security scanning

Job description

Nuix is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own and grow our Developer Experience function. You’ll lead a small internal product team that builds tooling, standards, automation, and workflows for ~100 engineers to ship software.

This role defines what great looks like across our developer toolchain, drives AI-enabled development lifecycle, and partners with engineering to accelerate delivery while maintaining governance. Hybrid in Sydney, three days in the office.