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. **Key Responsibilities:** - Define and execute the strategic roadmap for Developer Experience and Internal Developer Platforms at Zinnia. - Lead, mentor, and scale a global team across various areas such as CI/CD, observability, dev environments, testing infrastructure, and automation platforms. - Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and SRE teams to design and evolve platform standards aligned with Zinnia's growth. - Drive architectural and operational excellence in internal developer systems including build/deploy pipelines, sandbox environments, telemetry, and release engineering frameworks. - Transform gold standards into reusable tooling, opinionated golden paths, and secure-by-default frameworks. - Establish and track engineering-wide KPIs related to build times, release cadence, platform availability, MTTR, and test coverage. - Champion engineering productivity initiatives from friction audits to self-service tooling. - Lead Zinnia's cultural transformation towards a developer-first engineering mindset focusing on reliability, security, quality, and delivery. **Qualifications Required:** - 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. - Strong leadership skills, ability to manage managers, and a track record of delivering high-impact outcomes through strategy, people, and architecture. - Expertise in modern CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, observability frameworks, and quality automation tools. - Familiarity with tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Playwright, Selenium, JMeter, Chaos Mesh, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and service mesh technologies. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to align technical leaders, engineering teams, and business counterparts effectively. 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.,