Head of Developer Platform & AI Transformation

Verily Health; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 217,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Verily Health is seeking a Director of Developer Platform and AI Transformation to lead the SDLC toolchain, internal AI enablement, and a 15-strong engineering organization. You will own platform productivity, security, and governance while driving AI adoption across engineering and business units.

You will partner with executives to define strategy, scale enterprise AI capabilities, and deliver measurable improvements in delivery speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field + 12+ years software engineering, including 5+ years leading platform/infrastructure and 5+ years of management.
• Demonstrated leadership of developer platform or productivity functions supporting hundreds of engineers with measurable improvements.
• Deep expertise in GitHub, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, and Okta identity management.
• Hands-on experience with frontier AI models (Claude, Codex), MCP, and agentic workflows.
• Proven track record of leading internal AI adoption with productivity gains and cost controls.
• Strong bias for action and ability to influence across a large organization without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end SDLC toolchain and core developer services (GitHub, CI/CD, IAM).
• Manage developer platform as an internal product, guided by research and productivity data.
• Ensure reliability, observability, and cost efficiency of CI/CD and tooling against SLAs.
• Partner with Security and GRC to secure software supply chain and auditable pipelines.
• Integrate AI across SDLC, including AI agents, code review, testing, and deployment with guardrails.

Skills

Leadership

Platform leadership

GitHub

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Okta IAM

AI adoption

Cost controls

DORA metrics

Influence without authority

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

MCP integrations

Job description

Verily Health is seeking a Director of Developer Platform and AI Transformation to lead the SDLC toolchain, internal AI enablement, and a 15-strong engineering organization. You will own platform productivity, security, and governance while driving AI adoption across engineering and business units.

You will partner with executives to define strategy, scale enterprise AI capabilities, and deliver measurable improvements in delivery speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.