Head of Enterprise Engineering Excellence

Allianz Commercial; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive social benefits package

Hybrid working environment

Pension plan and health insurance

Job summary

Nestlé Nespresso is seeking aHead of Enterprise Engineering Excellence in Barcelona to lead a global engineering org driving modern, secure, scalable digital platforms. This role reports to the Global Head of IT and shapes the engineering foundation powering our digital ecosystem.

You will drive strategy, modernize ways of working, and partner with executives to deliver tangible business outcomes at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in senior engineering or technology leadership in complex enterprise environments.
• Led large globally distributed engineering organizations (200+ engineers).
• Deep expertise across cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, and modern architectures.
• Strong experience with cloud-native, microservices, APIs, CI/CD, and automation.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to connect technology decisions to business impact.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Proven ability to drive transformation, culture change, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the enterprise-wide engineering excellence strategy, aligned with business and IT priorities.
• Lead a global organization of 200+ engineers, building high-performing teams and leadership capability.
• Accelerate modernization through DevSecOps, cloud, automation, SRE, platform engineering, and AI.
• Own and evolve engineering platforms (cloud foundations, CI/CD, developer tooling) to enable speed and scalability.
• Ensure secure, reliable, and high-performing infrastructure and operations with strong governance and compliance.
• Drive operational excellence (incident, problem, and change management; resilience and disaster recovery).
• Partner with senior stakeholders to translate strategy into tangible business outcomes.
• Manage budgets, vendors, and cost optimization while maximizing value delivery.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Engineering leadership

DevSecOps

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

Azure Cloud

CI/CD tooling

Platform engineering

Job description

Nestlé Nespresso is seeking aHead of Enterprise Engineering Excellence in Barcelona to lead a global engineering org driving modern, secure, scalable digital platforms. This role reports to the Global Head of IT and shapes the engineering foundation powering our digital ecosystem.

You will drive strategy, modernize ways of working, and partner with executives to deliver tangible business outcomes at enterprise scale.