Director Developer Platforms (DevX)

As the Director of Developer Platforms at Zinnia, you will play a crucial role in owning the DevX strategy and leading a team of senior managers and managers to build top-notch infrastructure, tooling, and practices that significantly improve developer productivity, platform resilience, and software delivery velocity. Your responsibilities will include defining and executing the strategic roadmap for Developer Experience and Internal Developer Platforms at Zinnia. You will lead, mentor, and scale a global team across various areas such as CI/CD, observability, dev environments, testing infrastructure, and automation platforms. Collaboration with Engineering, Product, Security, and SRE teams will be essential to design and evolve platform standards that align with Zinnia's rapid growth across regions and product lines. Driving architectural and operational excellence in internal developer systems will be a key focus, encompassing build/deploy pipelines, sandbox environments, telemetry, fault injection systems, and release engineering frameworks. You will ensure that gold standards are transformed into reusable tooling, opinionated golden paths, and secure-by-default frameworks. Additionally, establishing and tracking engineering-wide KPIs related to build times, release cadence, platform availability, MTTR, and test coverage will be crucial. Your role will also involve championing engineering productivity initiatives that enhance team efficiency and safety, from friction audits to self-service tooling. Furthermore, you will lead Zinnia's cultural transformation towards a developer-first engineering mindset characterized by high standards in reliability, security, quality, and delivery. To excel in this role, you should have a solid background in software engineering, with at least 5 years of experience leading infrastructure, platform, or DevX teams at scale. Experience in building or transforming DevX or Developer Platform functions in a modern cloud-native, microservices-based enterprise will be highly beneficial. Strong leadership skills, the ability to manage managers, and a track record of delivering high-impact outcomes through strategy, people, and architecture are essential. Expertise across modern CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, observability frameworks, and quality automation tools is required. Familiarity with tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Playwright, Selenium, JMeter, Chaos Mesh, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and service mesh technologies will be advantageous. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills are also necessary to align technical leaders, engineering teams, and business counterparts effectively. In summary, this role offers a unique opportunity to drive innovation, shape Zinnia's developer platform strategy, and contribute to the company's growth and success in the insurance technology sector.,