Head of Platform Engineering & Developer Experience (Platform CoE) (d/f/m)

About this Position

The Head of Platform Engineering & Developer Experience (Platform CoE) leads the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of Henkel's Internal Developer Platform (IDP), SDLC toolchain, observability landscape, and engineering productivity ecosystem. This role ensures that developers across Henkel can build, deploy, and operate software quickly, securely, and reliably by providing consistent, automated, and self-service platform capabilities. As part of the Technical Domain Engineering leadership team, the role is responsible for developer-centric engineering, building standardized golden paths, governing CI/CD pipelines, establishing AIOps and observability practices, and driving DevOps adoption across the organization. The Head of Platform Engineering collaborates deeply with Cloud CoE, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, and product teams to enable frictionless engineering workflows and world-class developer experience.

What youll do

• Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Ownership
• Own, design, and evolve the Henkel Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to offer self-service onboarding, automation, and integration services for product teams.
• Ensure the IDP provides standardized patterns, reusable modules, and seamless integration with cloud platforms.2.SDLC, Toolchain & CI/CD Governance
• Lead the global engineering toolchain including GitHub Enterprise, CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and pipeline templates
• Standardize the complete software development supply chain (SDLC) across all business units
• Define guardrails, best practices, and policies to ensure secure and compliant delivery pipelines
• Developer Experience & Golden Paths
• Create and maintain golden paths, IaC templates, and reusable engineering patterns to streamline development and reduce cognitive load
• Drive developer productivity improvements through automation, standardization, and simplification
• Observability, Monitoring & AIOps
• Lead enterprise-wide observability, log management, and monitoring initiatives in partnership with OCC and Cloud CoE
• Implement AIOps capabilities to increase automation, reduce toil, and enable predictive operations
• DevOps Enablement
• Enable DevOps ways of working-without creating separate DevOps teams-by embedding DevOps practices, tooling, and mindset into product teams
• Provide coaching, frameworks, and enablement programs for adopting CI/CD, GitOps, SRE, and automatio