Head of Developer Platform

Gaming1

Liege, Belgium

YOUR ROLE

As Head of Developer Platform, you will be responsible for defining, leading and continuously improving the platform layer that enables Gaming1 engineers to build and run software in a fast, safe and self-service way.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Lead, structure and grow three platform-oriented teams: Developer Experience, Channel and Reliability Operations.
Manage and develop Engineering Managers, ensuring that each team has the right level of clarity, maturity, ownership and accountability.
Shape the Internal Developer Platform as a genuine internal product, with a strong focus on value creation, developer adoption and measurable outcomes.
Drive the evolution of developer tooling, golden paths, templates, CI/CD, self-service capabilities and end-to-end developer workflows.
Oversee the shared frontend platform, including the app shell, design system and SDKs used by product teams to deliver their customer experiences.
Strengthen the reliability and observability practice, including SRE principles, incident response and platform dependability.
Work closely with the Head owning the Infrastructure Composition Layer to define clear technical boundaries, interfaces and collaboration principles between platform layers.
Partner with the Platform Product Manager to align platform initiatives with internal customer needs and the platform value map.
Collaborate with Principal Architects to ensure technical coherence and alignment across engineering layers.
Translate the broader platform engineering vision into a pragmatic strategy and execution roadmap for your scope.
Build open communication habits across teams, ensuring that context, decisions and reasoning are shared clearly and consistently.
Help introduce new practices and tools, including AI where relevant, in a way that creates tangible value and supports engineering engagement.

YOUR PROFILE

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader who combines strong people leadership, platform product thinking and credible technical depth.

You have:

Proven experience leading engineers through managers, ideally managing at least two Engineering Managers and teams totalling around 15 engineers or more.
Deep and current experience evolving an internal developer platform, developer tooling, CI/CD or self-service engineering capabilities as a product.
A strong software engineering and architecture background, with the ability to set credible direction for platform and reliability topics.
A track record of building, shaping and growing teams, including hiring and developing Engineering Managers.
A strong understanding of reliability as a core engineering principle, not as an afterthought.
The ability to work at the intersection of strategy and execution, turning vision into clear priorities, operating models and team-level direction.
A product mindset applied to internal platforms, with attention to adoption, value, outcomes and developer experience.
The ability to introduce new practices and tools thoughtfully, including AI, with a focus on real engineering effectiveness rather than hype.
Strong communication skills and the ability to make decision-making transparent across teams.