Director of AI-Driven Platform Engineering

Elsevier; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 111,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier seeks an Engineering Director to lead SciVal’s engineering strategy and technical direction. You will guide multiple teams across frontend, backend, data and quality engineering to deliver a scalable, secure analytics platform powering research insights.

You will collaborate with Product, Data and Architecture to modernise capabilities and enable AI-assisted experiences for customers. The role focuses on building technical talent, governance, and end-to-end delivery of roadmaps that

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering managers and distributed teams across geographies.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale, data-intensive software.
• Experience introducing AI-enabled practices in SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Lead SciVal’s engineering strategy and technical direction with Product, Data and Architecture.
• Define architectural standards across search, data, analytics, APIs and platform integration.
• Hire, coach and develop engineers and engineering leaders.
• Own workforce planning, performance management and resource allocation.
• Drive planning and execution across multiple engineering teams and programmes.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed teams

AI in SDLC

Stakeholder management

Data ingestion

Search & graphs

Tools

APIs

Cloud platforms

Job description

Elsevier seeks an Engineering Director to lead SciVal’s engineering strategy and technical direction. You will guide multiple teams across frontend, backend, data and quality engineering to deliver a scalable, secure analytics platform powering research insights.

You will collaborate with Product, Data and Architecture to modernise capabilities and enable AI-assisted experiences for customers. The role focuses on building technical talent, governance, and end-to-end delivery of roadmaps that