Tooling Evolution Lead Engineer
Core
Own the evaluation, industrialisation, and lifecycle of engineering and AI developer tools across the organisation, bridging the gap between new capabilities and a stable core estate.
Role type
Principal-level individual contributor (Tooling Evolution Lead)
Builds
A governed, evidence-based tool intake and evaluation framework; an industrialisation pathway for pilots to the core estate; a portfolio-level view of tooling.
Domain
Enterprise software engineering, developer experience (DevEx), AI tooling governance, pharmaceutical/healthcare.
Required skills
Tool lifecycle management, evidence-based decision making, AI tool evaluation, stakeholder influence, enterprise governance translation, portfolio management, cost telemetry analysis, technical fluency (CI/CD, IDEs, cloud-native).
Preferred skills
Regulated enterprise experience, tool rationalisation, Model Context Protocol (MCP), community-of-practice partnership, multi-dimension scoring frameworks, SaaS license administration, POC to industrialisation track record.
Technologies
GitHub Copilot, agentic coding assistants, MCP, CI/CD, IDEs, cloud-native architectures.
Responsibilities
Run the governed tool-intake and evaluation lifecycle end-to-end; define and evolve the evaluation framework; build the industrialisation pathway for successful pilots; maintain a live portfolio-level view of tools; partner with Guilds and Tooling Operations; own the adoption and value-realization story; act as the technical and governance authority.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic scope.
