Head of Software Engineering Acceleration (AI DevX)

Scientific Games is the global leader in lottery games, sports betting and technology, and they are seeking a senior leader to accelerate software engineering across a global organization. The role focuses on improving developer workflows and engineering systems, while leveraging AI to enhance productivity and collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Accelerate software engineering across a global organization by improving developer workflows, engineering systems, and AI-enabled development practices
• Remove 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
• Identify bottlenecks and drive scalable improvements across teams
• 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
• Experience leading a developer productivity or platform team in a large engineering organization
• Experience building internal developer tooling and later growing into broader engineering systems leadership
• Strong software engineering background with experience helping teams use AI tools in a structured, practical way
• Strong engineering credibility
• Good judgment
• Clear writing skills
• Ability to differentiate 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