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COX CORPORATE SERVICES INC. Senior Director, Developer Platforms in DRAPER, Utah
ROLE OVERVIEW
Cox Automotive is one of the largest technology service providers in the automotive industry, supporting thousands of workloads and hundreds of engineering and product teams across a portfolio of market-leading brands. The Sr Director, Developer Platforms owns the end-to-end product engineering toolchain that makes all of that possible-from AI-native development tools and the core engineering ecosystem, to the engineering data plane, operational monitoring tooling, and the secure cloud landing zone on AWS. This leader is at the center of the software engineering transformation: as AI-assisted and agentic development tools fundamentally change how software is built, the Developer Platforms team sets the direction for how Cox Automotive engineers and product builders harness that shift, creating the paved roads and optimized environments that let hundreds of teams ship great software quickly and confidently.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic Leadership
Partner with senior Engineering and Product leaders across Cox Automotive's business units to deeply understand the Developer experience and continuously reduce the friction that slow teams down
Partner with Architecture, Engineering, and Product leaders to define and execute the multi-year Developer Platforms strategy, stewarding the vision for Cox Automotive's internal developer platform and the end-to-end Developer experience across discovery, development, delivery, and operations
Lead Cox Automotive's transformation toward AI-assisted and agentic engineering-moving beyond individual developer tooling to optimizing the entire engineering environment for how autonomous agents and humans work together to build software
Establish the "paved road" philosophy: create opinionated, well-lit paths and self-service capabilities that let hundreds of teams move fast without re-inventing foundational infrastructure or tooling
Own the strategy for AI-native development tools including coding assistants, agentic development platforms, and enterprise MCP infrastructure-ensuring Cox Automotive engineers have access to best-in-class AI capabilities and that those tools are deeply integrated into the Developer environment
Drive the roadmap for the engineering data plane-giving engineering and product leadership meaningful visibility into the health and quality of workloads across the enterprise
Represent Developer Platforms as a strategic enterprise capability to executive stakeholders, translating platform investment into measurable outcomes in developer productivity, quality, and speed to market
Operational Excellence
Ensure availability, reliability, and performance commitments are met across the full Developer Platforms toolchain-including AI development tools, engineering ecosystem (GitHub, Artifactory, CI/CD), engineering data plane, operational observability (Splunk, New Relic, PagerDuty), and the AWS cloud landing zone
Establish and track key performance indicators spanning developer satisfaction, platform adoption, deployment frequency, onboarding time, mean time to recovery, and agentic environment readiness metrics
Drive continuous improvement in platform efficiency and cost optimization across cloud infrastructure, toolchain operations, and vendor-managed services
Oversee security and compliance posture of the engineering toolchain, including the... For full info follow application link.
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