Head of Engineering Experience and Platforms

Overview The Head of Engineering Experience and Platforms is responsible for championing the productivity, satisfaction, and continuous growth of our engineering community. This role ensures that engineers are empowered with intelligent, automated, and AI-augmented tools, processes, and platforms that accelerate the delivery of high quality software at scale. Reporting to the Head of Engineering and Delivery Enablement, this leader shapes the future of our development ecosystem by embedding AI-native and agentic capabilities throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). The team owns the creation and evolution of a seamless, scalable, and frictionless engineering environment that anticipates needs, orchestrates workflows, and reduces cognitive load through AI automation and smart developer assistance, creating an unparalleled development experience. Key Responsibilities Engineer Productivity: Own and optimize the end-to-end developer workflow, including onboarding, tooling decisions, documentation, and internal platforms. Advocacy & Support: Act as the voice of engineers, identifying pain points and driving improvements across teams and projects. Tooling & Platforms: Evaluate, implement and manage best-in-class development tools, including GitHub Copilot (or similar AI Code Assistants), AI agents for developer experience, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, and internal developer platforms. Collaboration: Partner with the Head of Architecture to align on technical standards and with the Head of Cloud to ensure cloud‑native best practices. Engineering Metrics: Lead the Engineering Metrics Program, defining, tracking, and reporting on developer experience and productivity metrics. Developer Evangelization: Lead the Developer Evangelization Group to aid development teams in adopting new technologies and processes. Metrics & Feedback: Run regular feedback loops to measure and improve developer satisfaction. Culture & Community: Foster a culture of learning, innovation, and knowledge sharing through internal events, documentation, and mentorship. Qualifications 10+ years of proven experience in software engineering, developer productivity, or platform engineering. Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Deep understanding of modern development workflows, cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and developer productivity tools such as GitHub, GitHub Copilot, AI agents, and GitHub Actions. Salary Salary Range: $152,290.00 - $250,195.00 (good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location; actual salary determined by experience and qualifications). Eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation. Benefits Benefits apply to full‑time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits. Explore our company benefits at Equal Employment Opportunity Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. Accommodations Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io. Visa Sponsorship Guardian is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment visas. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship. #J-18808-Ljbffr The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America