Director of Engineering Productivity and Operations, Matillion
£141.2-211.8k
+ Company Equity
AI data automation platform
Be an early applicant
AI data automation platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£141.2-211.8k
+ Company Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower data teams to build and manage pipelines faster for AI and analytics - at scale.
Role
Who you are
- Significant engineering leadership experience in SaaS, cloud platform, DevOps, developer experience, SRE or engineering productivity organisations
- A practical understanding of AI-assisted and agentic software development, ideally having led a team that builds AI agents or tooling for engineers, or a genuine drive to learn it fast
- Experience running engineering operations, with a track record of measuring productivity through outcomes rather than activity
- Hands-on experience with cloud cost management, vendor and contract management, and technical procurement
- Excellent communication and sound commercial judgement, with the ability to influence engineering, finance and executive stakeholders
- Don't tick every box? Apply anyway. We hire for potential, not just experience. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Director of Engineering Productivity & Operations to lead how our engineering organisation builds, delivers and operates the Maia platform
- You'll own the strategy and execution behind our engineering productivity agenda, including the evolution of our software development lifecycle towards an increasingly agentic model, alongside the operational disciplines that keep engineering efficient: metrics, reporting, cloud and tooling spend, and vendor management
- Working closely with engineering leaders across the business and with Finance, you'll lead a team spanning developer experience, release engineering and CloudOps, and have real scope to shape the role and make it your own
- Setting and leading the engineering productivity strategy, driving the move towards an agentic software delivery model across planning, coding, testing, review and deployment
- Owning the roadmap for shared engineering platforms and delivery capabilities, including CI/CD, release automation, observability and the developer experience
- Running the engineering operating rhythm and a trusted metrics framework, giving leadership clear visibility of delivery, quality, reliability and cost
- Leading engineering FinOps and cloud cost optimisation, working with your CloudOps analysts to build forecasting, accountability and sustainable savings
- Managing the engineering tooling portfolio end to end, including vendor evaluation, contract negotiation and renewals, in partnership with Finance, Procurement, Legal and Security
Our take
In order to make the world’s data more useful, Matillion offers a data integration and transformation platform. Essentially, the company turns raw data into an analytics-ready asset to help companies make better decisions. In 2025 it launched Maia, the industry’s first AI data automation platform.
As organisations search for ways to harness data for business intelligence, the market for Matillion’s offerings is expanding, and the company has assumed a forefront position. Its strong reputation has secured large enterprise clients like FOX, Sony, Slack and Cisco.
The company is well-funded and boasts a strong valuation, showing that it has cemented its place in the sector. With Maia, Matillion proves it is able to adapt to the evolving business data landscape, delivering expert AI agents that can handle time-consuming data work and free up teams to focus on delivering business goals faster.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $310.3m
Company benefits
- A culture that promotes work life balance
- Access to mental health support
- 25 days holiday
- 5 days paid volunteering leave
- Pension
- Career development with monthly hackdays, access to a Udemy account, Blinkist and much more
Company HQ
Salford, UK
Leadership
Ed Thompson
(CTO)Previously acted as an IBM Software Consultant for Real Solutions and as an Integration Team Leader for Imtech ICT.
Matthew Scullion
(CEO & Founder)Previously acted as Software Division Director for Imtech ICT and as Director for Real Solutions.
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