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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Tribe Lead - ( Software) Engineering Centre of Excllence - **Company:** SD Worx - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Cloud Engineering, Software Quality, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Peer-To-Peer (P2P), Systems Development Life Cycle, SAP Sales and Distribution, Software Engineering, GitHub Copilot, Technical Debt, Backend, Build Tools, Front End Software Development, Legacy Systems - **Published:** July 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8cc78055505947a3 ## About the Role * Experience: 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years leading engineering transformation, or developer experience at scale (500+ engineers), Engineering Excellence or Centre of Excellence initiatives within large-scale technology organisations. * The "Change Agent" Gene: You have a track record of shifting engineering culture. You know how to sell a vision, build coalitions, and overcome resistance. * AI Pragmatism: You are hands-on with the latest AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, etc.) and understand the difference between hype and genuine productivity gains. * Product Mindset: You don't just build tools; you solve problems for your internal customers. You use data to prioritize. * Technical Depth: Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, DevOps patterns, and security-by-design. Experience influencing senior engineering leadership and driving organisation-wide technical change. You can debate architecture with Principal Engineers. * Passion for continuously evaluating emerging engineering practices and translating them into measurable business value. Leadership * Leadership Style: Collaborative, empathetic, and "servant-leader" oriented. You lead and coach through influence and value creation, not command-and-control. * You are a recognised engineering leader who influences through technical credibility, collaboration and vision. * You build engineering communities, mentor senior technical leaders and create environments where engineering teams continuously improve. ## Description As Tribe Lead of the CoE, you will define world-class software engineering at SD Worx. You'll advise engineering leadership on trends, modern practices, and AI-native development to accelerate our evolution into a modern technology company. Your responsibilities include improving engineering capabilities, driving AI adoption, and embedding excellence across every engineering team. Rather than overseeing daily delivery, you will set standards, influence culture, coach leaders, and ensure our practices keep pace with technological change. Your Mission - Lead the Software Engineering Centre of Excellence to improve engineering maturity at SD Worx. * AI-Native Engineering Transformation Define the collaboration between engineers and AI throughout the Software Development Lifecycle. Evolve engineers from software developers to AI-powered engineering orchestrators. Promote the adoption of AI-assisted and agentic software engineering in design, coding, testing, documentation, operations, and continuous improvement. * Orchestrate AI Transformation:- Set standards for how humans and AI collaborate in designing, reviewing, and delivering software. * Drive Engineering Excellence:- Advise teams on modern engineering practices and establish common engineering standards, quality practices, and governance to enable faster, more secure, and consistent software delivery while preserving team autonomy. * Set the Bar: Create non-negotiable standards for quality and security to ensure that autonomy does not compromise coherence * Increase Software Engineering Maturity: Continuously enhance capabilities across SD Worx by adopting modern practices, benchmarking against leading companies, and implementing engineering maturity models for ongoing improvement. Key Impact Areas 1. Driving the AI-Native Transformation * Define and execute the strategy for AI-augmented engineering (GitHub Copilot, agentic workflows, automated remediation). * Move the organization from "experimenting with AI" to standardizing it as a core competency, measuring the impact on velocity and code quality. * Modernize our approach to legacy systems, using AI to accelerate refactoring and reduce technical debt. * Drive the shift from "developer-as-coder" to "developer-as-orchestrator," ensuring our teams effectively leverage agentic AI to manage complex workflows. * Define the metrics for "AI-augmented productivity," focusing on how AI accelerates the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and improves output quality. 2. Advancing Engineering Maturity * Act as the primary advisor to leadership on emerging industry standards in software engineering, ensuring SD Worx remains competitive with top-tier technology companies. * Design and deploy "Engineering Crews"-swat teams of experts who embed with tribes to solve critical bottlenecks and upskill teams on advanced technical patterns. * Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, utilizing data-driven insights to elevate our engineering rigor and craftsmanship. 3. Governance & Technical Standards * Manage the maturity model for our internal engineering practices, providing a clear roadmap for tribes to transition high-performing, AI-augmented states. * Improve Developer Experience (DevEx) by reducing engineering friction and increasing engineering effectiveness. * Advise leadership on emerging engineering trends, technology strategy and engineering organisational design. 4. Cultivating Talent & Community * Lead the SD Worx Campus team and Practice Guilds (Frontend, Backend, QA) to drive peer-to-peer learning and standardization. * Design career paths that reward both deep specialization (T-shaped skills) and high-leverage generalists. Success Metrics * Engineering Maturity Index: Measurable increase in adherence to group engineering standards and best practices using DORA metrics. * AI Adoption Velocity: Adoption rate of agentic AI workflows across tribes and the measurable impact on code quality and review cycles. * Quality & Security Velocity: Reduction in technical debt and successful integration of automated, friction-free quality gates. * DevEx Satisfaction: Improvement in developer experience scores as teams focus on high-leverage work rather than manual toil. ## About SD Worx In today’s new world of fluid work, people want to be inspired by what they do and have the freedom to focus on what matters. Organisations need a dynamic, motivated workforce empowered by smart technology. As a leading European provider of integrated HR solutions, SD Worx turns HR into a source of value for their customers’ business and the people that work for them. SD Worx delivers HR solutions across the entire employee lifecycle, from paying employees to attracting, employing, rewarding ... **Tech Stack:** .NET, ABAP, C#, C++, Azure, Angular, Microsoft SQL Server, Scrum, GIT, JavaScript, Java, Selenium, Cypress, Cloud (AWS/Google/Azure) , JIRA **Industries:** Consulting, Platform, Social [Company profile](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/companies/3750-sd-worx) ### More Jobs at SD Worx - [Senior Workday Integration Consultant](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/1492621-senior-workday-integration-consultant) - [Senior Workday Integration Consultant](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/348134-senior-workday-integration-consultant) ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) - [The AI-Native Engineering Org: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What’s Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100004-the-ai-native-engineering-org-what-s-real-what-s-hype-what-s-next) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) - [Successful talent development: A joint journey of executives and talents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1002-successful-talent-development-a-joint-journey-of-executives-and-talents) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [What’s the Difference between a Junior, Mid, and Senior Developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/238-what-s-the-difference-between-a-junior-mid-and-senior-developer) - [Top Characteristics of a Software Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/166-top-characteristics-of-a-software-engineer) - [What is Software Engineering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/289-what-is-software-engineering) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Now is the time for industrialized software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development)