Head of Software Engineering Acceleration (AI DevX)

Scientific Games • Alpharetta, GA

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About The Position

Scientific Games is seeking a senior leader to accelerate software engineering across a global organization by improving developer workflows, engineering systems, and AI-enabled development practices. This role focuses on removing friction across the software delivery lifecycle including tooling, testing, code reviews, documentation, repository guidance, and team collaboration to help engineers build faster and more effectively. The ideal candidate can move between strategy and execution, identify bottlenecks, and drive scalable improvements across teams. They will build a small, high-impact team and lead SG’s approach to engineering acceleration, leveraging AI where it adds value while creating reusable systems, best practices, and measurable gains in productivity.

Requirements

• Deep experience across engineering systems, DevX, platform engineering, developer productivity, or internal tooling.
• Strong working knowledge of modern AI development tools and agentic workflows.
• Led a developer productivity or platform team in a large engineering organization.
• Built internal developer tooling and later grown into broader engineering systems leadership.
• Strong software engineering background and spent the last few years helping teams use AI tools in a structured, practical way.
• Strong engineering credibility.
• Good judgment.
• Clear writing.
• Ability to tell the difference between activity and progress.
• Broad experience in software engineering, platform, DevX, or engineering systems work.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical efforts across a large engineering organization.
• Good feel for SDLC bottlenecks, testing maturity, CI/CD, review flow, and repo health.
• Familiarity with AI coding tools, agentic coding patterns, repo-aware guidance, and evaluation methods.
• Evidence of building shared systems or patterns that other engineers actually adopted.
• Comfort working in a polyglot environment with different languages, repos, and local processes.
• 12+ years of experience across software engineering, product engineering, platform engineering, or technical product development.
• 5+ years leading efforts to help development teams build faster, with higher quality, and more joy.
• Proven track record of building and delivering mechanisms that understand bottlenecks builders face and solve for them.
• Experience operating effectively within large, complex systems, including legacy platforms.
• Automating testing across unit, integration, contract, regression, performance, and end-to-end testing.

Responsibilities

• Improving developer workflows, engineering systems, and AI-enabled development practices.
• Removing friction across the software delivery lifecycle including tooling, testing, code reviews, documentation, repository guidance, and team collaboration.
• Helping engineers build faster and more effectively.
• Identifying bottlenecks and driving scalable improvements across teams.
• Building a small, high-impact team.
• Leading SG’s approach to engineering acceleration, leveraging AI where it adds value.
• Creating reusable systems, best practices, and measurable gains in productivity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed