Engineering Director, Performance & AI Insights

United States Digital Space LLC; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hawk-Eye is seeking a Director of Engineering - Performance & Insights to lead a ~50-person team spanning web/mobile/data/cloud engineering. The role focuses on building lean, AI-driven foundations and scalable platforms that deliver data-informed sports insights to top-tier clients.

You will establish engineering standards, governance, and operational discipline while scaling the organisation through AI delegation patterns, partnering with product leadership to accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading large engineering organizations.
• Experience building data-driven, scalable platforms.
• Able to drive AI-enabled product strategies.
• Strong operational discipline and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a ~50-person engineering and product team.
• Set engineering standards and shared ways of working.
• Scale teams and platforms with AI-enabled patterns.
• Partner with product leadership to align roadmaps.

Skills

Team leadership

Engineering leadership

AI foundations

Data governance

Cloud computing

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

DevOps practices

Job description

Hawk-Eye is seeking a Director of Engineering - Performance & Insights to lead a ~50-person team spanning web/mobile/data/cloud engineering. The role focuses on building lean, AI-driven foundations and scalable platforms that deliver data-informed sports insights to top-tier clients.

You will establish engineering standards, governance, and operational discipline while scaling the organisation through AI delegation patterns, partnering with product leadership to accelerate delivery.