Head of Developer Experience & AI-Driven Platform

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

Job summary

Nuix is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own and grow the Developer Experience function. You will lead a small team delivering tooling, standards, automation, and workflows that enable ~100 engineers to build, test, and ship software quickly and safely.

You’ll shape AI-enabled development practices while maintaining governance and quality. You will define the developer platform, promote self-service, and collaborate with engineering managers to raise standards across CI/CD, repository

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading platform, developer experience, DevOps, or engineering enablement teams in a software product company
• Strong hands-on background in CI/CD, repository management, artifact management, testing automation, and developer workflow design
• Experience with Jenkins (pipeline-as-code, shared libraries), Git-based workflows, artifact repos, and code quality/security scanning tools
• Proven track record of introducing internal developer platforms, standardized tooling, or golden path templates used by multiple teams
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to translate feedback into a prioritized roadmap

Responsibilities

• Define the developer platform strategy and own theroadmap for developer experience tooling across all engineering teams
• Build and maintain standardised repository templates with CI pipelines, testing frameworks, linting, security scanning, dependency management, and documentation scaffolding
• Design and operate artifact repository strategy including structure, retention, and usability
• Drive automation for release notes and changelog generation from metadata
• Evaluate and introduce new tooling to improve developer flow, quality and speed
• Ensure internal tools are well-documented, maintained and user-friendly
• Lead AI-enabled development practices and guardrails across engineering
• Pilot AI use cases such as PR review assistance, test generation and documentation
• Establish governance for responsible AI use in engineering
• Partner with leaders to scale successful approaches and discard unhelpful ones
• Promote shift-left quality with automated testing within pipelines
• Reduce build instability and bottlenecks with better tooling
• Use metrics to identify friction points and publish repeatable patterns
• Enable self-service platforms reducing ticket-driven workflows
• Lead and grow a small team of DevX engineers and define career paths
• Balance reactive support with long-term platform investments

Skills

DevX leadership

CI/CD

Repository workflows

Artifact management

Code quality tooling

Security scanning

Documentation standards

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket

Artifactory/Nexus

Job description

Nuix is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own and grow the Developer Experience function. You will lead a small team delivering tooling, standards, automation, and workflows that enable ~100 engineers to build, test, and ship software quickly and safely.

You’ll shape AI-enabled development practices while maintaining governance and quality. You will define the developer platform, promote self-service, and collaborate with engineering managers to raise standards across CI/CD, repository