Senior Director

Senior Director focuses on develop engineering leaders (directors, managers and senior ics), building high-performing teams with clear ownership and strong engineering culture.

What the role involves

• Develop engineering leaders (directors, managers and senior ICs), building high-performing teams with clear ownership and strong engineering culture.
• Own platform reliability, resilience, and operational excellence: incident management, on-call standards, SLIs/SLOs, post-incident learning, and continuous improvement.
• Driving cloud efficiency and cost transparency (FinOps): budgeting, forecasting, unit economics, and optimisation initiatives in partnership with Finance and Engineering.
• Establish platform governance and standards (architecture, security, compliance, data handling, vendor/tooling choices) while enabling appropriate team autonomy.
• Build strong cross-functional alignment peer X-Ops leaders, and other operational stakeholders to ensure aligned feature delivery and service operations.
• Actively drive responsible AI adoption within the organisation.

Skills and requirements

• Experience building and operating platforms at scale in a SaaS environment, ideally with multi-region cloud deployment.
• Experience partnering with security teams to embed controls into platform capabilities.
• Experience with organisational design, operating cadence, and change management in a complex engineering organisation.
• Experience improving processes, introducing new ways of working, or leading small change initiatives.

Confirmed role details

• This role is based in Abingdon UK with remote working and teams also in India and Hungary.
• Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description.
• What's Great About Sophos?· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees.
• However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach.