Director of Platform Engineering, Hawk-Eye Innovations
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Sports officiating & broadcast technology
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Sports officiating & broadcast technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Some travel required
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver best-in-class officiating, broadcast, and digital solutions to the sports world.
Role
Who you are
- You are a strong technology leader with real experience building shared platforms and data capabilities in organisations where reliability, scale, and coordination matter
- You understand that the hard part is not only choosing the right architecture. It is creating the ownership, standards, operating discipline, and trust that make good architecture useful in practice
- You are credible with senior engineers, comfortable in operationally demanding environments, and able to move between cloud infrastructure, data foundations, organisational design, and delivery reality without losing the plot
- You know how to centralise what must become shared capability without hollowing out the autonomy and judgement of teams that build on top of it
- You care about engineering quality, but you care just as much about business consequence. You know that reliability protects customer trust, governed data creates leverage, and shared standards only matter when they make the organisation materially better at delivering outcomes
What the job involves
- As Director of Platform Engineering, you are responsible for building the shared foundations that make Hawk-Eye's technology organisation easier to trust, easier to scale, and easier to build on
- Your mission is to build a lean technical organisation with AI at the heart of it, capable of scaling through technology more than people
- Your clients are product and services teams seeking reliable infrastructure, available data, and scalable APIs
- This technical leadership role sits at the centre of Hawk-Eye engineering defines and builds the foundations for platform and data engineering, enabling AI-driven workflows in product and technology development and capable to support mission critical systems
- You will lead and manage Hawk-Eye’s Platform Engineering function. This includes domains such as Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, Developer Experience, as well as other domains incubated in Platform Engineering
- Build the platform, data, and governance conditions required for AI-enabled software delivery to scale safely
- Ensure shared services, modular interfaces, and governed data access create the right foundations for future AI acceleration
- Provide leadership for internal engineering enablement through the Developer Experience function
- Define, build, and own Hawk-Eye’s internal Platform-as-a-Service
- Build and lead a high-calibre Platform Engineering function with strong technical credibility and operational judgement
- Hire, develop, and align engineering leaders and specialists across platform, cloud, SRE, and data disciplines
- Foster a culture of accountability, clarity, calm execution, and continuous improvement
- Act as a senior internal leader who can bring structure to complexity without becoming bureaucratic
- Live by and advocate Hawk-Eye’s values: Be Owners, Be Brave, Be Inclusive
- Create practical standards to enable strong reliability, platform quality, operational readiness, and shared data governance across the whole of Hawk-Eye’s engineering
- Balance central consistency with enough flexibility for different product and domain needs
- Partner with product engineering leaders so shared platform and data standards improve delivery speed
- Identify systemic reliability risks, fragile dependencies, and operational bottlenecks early, and drive resolution
- Introduce visible service health, ownership, and numeric baselines for the critical systems under your remit
- Use major tournaments, flagship customers, and real operating pressure as proving grounds for improved resilience and trust
- Transition the wider organisation to structured and disciplined operational management
Application process
- Start Date: ASAP
Our take
Hawk-Eye Innovations, part of Sony, delivers technology that enhances fairness, safety, and excitement for thousands of sporting events worldwide. As a leader in vision processing, Hawk-Eye provides solutions for officiating, video management, production, broadcasting, and digital experiences, helping teams, officials, and fans enjoy sports more effectively.
With a long list of clients, including Adidas, Fox Sports, and Nascar, Hawk-Eye has firmly established itself as a cornerstone of sports innovation. The company is constantly pushing boundaries, and is often called upon to create bespoke solutions tailored to the unique needs of sports leagues and broadcasters.
More recently, Hawk-Eye has continued to expand its use of automated officiating systems, particularly in tennis and football, where line-calling and offside decisions are increasingly driven by real-time tracking and AI-assisted analysis. These systems not only improve accuracy but also speed up decision-making, reducing disruption to gameplay. As leagues look to balance fairness with flow, hawk-Eye's technology is becoming an integral part of how modern sports is governed.
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Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flexible & Remote Working
- Generous Annual Leave
- Company Reward Schemes
- Health & Wellness Activities
- Onsite Gym
- Free Access to Unmind App
- Sony Discounts
- Pension Scheme
Company HQ
Basingstoke, UK
Leadership
Rufus Hack
(CEO)Rufus joined Hawk-Eye in 2021 as CEO. Prior to this, he worked at the European Tour for 6 years as the Head of Strategy, Chief Content Officer, and COO.
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