Director, Platform Automation & Developer Experience

Rockwell Automation - Houston, TX

Full-time - Director

Houston, TX

10,001+ employees

Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing

About the position

Rockwell Automation is looking for a Director to lead our Platform Automation and Developer Experience practice. This role is pivotal in enhancing the developer experience through the automation of technology and compute platform components in both lower and production environments. The Director will partner with various Development teams to architect, provision, monitor, and enrich Development Environments, ultimately aiming to improve the Developer Experience through effective Platform Automation. In this hands-on position, the Director will be customer-obsessed, forming partnerships with multiple development, infrastructure, security, and operational teams. A strong background in modern software platforms is essential, as is the ability to productize platform components and enable Development teams to autonomously consume technology and compute platform-level components. The Director will lead the construction of a democratized, self-service library of reusable platform components, treating each component as a product and automating its lifecycle. The responsibilities include leading a dedicated team focused on improving the experience of Rockwell's Developers, developing and implementing strategies to enhance the developer experience, ensuring substantial autonomy for stream/product aligned teams, and creating shared services for CI/CD pipeline platform components. The Director will also collaborate with various teams to create operational support for lower environments, champion automation at Platform layers, and establish metrics to measure developer satisfaction and productivity. Staying informed about the latest trends in developer tools and advocating for developer-friendly practices are also key aspects of this role.

Responsibilities

• Lead/Build a team dedicated to improving the experience of Rockwell's Developers through the automation of all technology and compute platform components in lower and production environments.
• Lead a diverse group of peers into a common solution framework.
• Develop and implement a strategy to enhance the developer experience across the organization, including infrastructure services allowing developers to work from anywhere.
• Ensure stream/product aligned teams complete work with substantial autonomy.
• Lead the creation and adoption of a shared service for CI/CD pipeline platform components to refine development workflows and automated provisioning of lower environments and encourage reuse.
• Partner across Rockwell's Development teams in the creation of a shared, self-service library of platform components.
• Partner across Rockwell's Development teams in the creation of repeatable CI/CD pipelines or pipeline classes, using common pipeline templates wherever possible.
• Collaborate with Development, Security, and Infrastructure teams in the creation and operational support of lower environments tailored to improve the experience of Developers while maintaining the security of Rockwell's Intellectual Property.
• Champion complete build and production support automation and promote a culture of automation at Platform layers.
• Build observability into build chains, CI/CD pipelines, and automations of all environments.
• Collaborate with Build/DevOps/SRE Engineers in the creation and operational support of CI/CD pipelines and pipeline templates.
• Partner across Rockwell Automation in the governance of common Platform components.
• Productize and maintain a library of versioned Platform components and orchestration scripts developed anywhere at Rockwell.
• Creation or standardize test cases in CI/CD pipelines for the proper use of Platform Components, Operational Readiness, Architectural Alignment, UX for the IDP, or similar tests.
• Guide programs to automate development processes, reduce friction, and eliminate bottlenecks at Platform layers.
• Establish metrics and monitor Platform products to measure developer satisfaction and productivity.
• Stay informed about the latest trends in developer tools, platforms, and methodologies.
• Advocate for and implement developer-friendly practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• Ability to travel up to 15%.
• Typically requires 12+ years of relevant leadership experience within IT.
• Experience leading systems or platform development teams.
• Track record in modern software architectures and the required underlying platforms.
• Experience leading DevSecOps teams, supporting CI/CD pipeline, working with software delivery organizations to lead both operational excellence and adaptability.
• Experience with Continuous Delivery practices, Agile/SAFe, across a large organization.
• Solid skills in the creation of Technical Roadmaps - organizing work for the development team following Scrum/Agile principles.
• Extraordinary internal customer focus - you should come prepared with stories demonstrating improvement in developer experience.
• Experience with successful platform components, their architecture, durability, provisioning, monitoring, and lifecycle.
• Excellent collaboration skills and a partnering mindset.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, MIS, Computer Science.
• Experience with innovation in platform automation and IDPs - linking network, system, storage, DBs, meshes, and other sub-components of applications into a consumable product across an organization.

Benefits

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.