Head of Development Tools

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Head of Development Tools
Firm Overview
For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage, and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500 company with annual revenue of $20.8 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 108,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise.

Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAY. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated.
The Opportunity
We are seeking experienced Head Development Tools, reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Development. As a senior member of staff in Infrastructure Development and within Infrastructure & Operations, this individual is responsible to build a  future-fit infrastructure and organization for JLL, developing and enabling resilient and adaptable infrastructure across the enterprise .
The Head of Development Tools brings experience, knowledge, and future vision for transforming the infrastructure function including the management of the source code repository, CICD pipelines, golden imagines/patterns, OS, containers, immutable & resilient infrastructure, observability standards, tier 1, 2 and 3 support of tooling and tier 3 support for tooling, infrastructure & applications.
The role holder is a senior stakeholder in all relationships with externally sourced infrastructure and operations capabilities. Owns the direct points of contact and continuous engagement and improvement with Infrastructure and Applications Teams.
As a key member of the senior Infrastructure Development leadership team this role contributes to the development and execution of the enterprise-wide Infrastructure and Application Development strategy and is responsible for ensuring Infrastructure Development and I&O strategy is fully aligned, positioning the functions to deliver compelling value to the infrastructure, application teams as well as the JLL Business
This individual is expected to support the Head of Infrastructure Development, SVP of I&O, the Infrastructure Leadership Team, the Chief Architect and VPs of Application Development under the CTO by implementing tooling solutions that align to the enterprise architecture framework and roadmap. He or she will also serve on IT planning and policy making committees and will drive the development and adoption of enterprise technology standards, governance processes and performance metrics.

Key Responsibilities
Tooling Ecosystem :
Ownership of Development Tools, which includes but not limited to, Observability, Operating Systems, Containers, Source Code and Pipelines. Responsible for nurturing a healthy engagement with stakeholders/users of the tooling and ensure that the usage of the tooling is measurably helping the stakeholder community

Create and execute strategy:  Create and communicate a pioneering vision for Infrastructure Development, including the value proposition in digital transformation, optimization of cloud and adoption of innovative technologies, such as generative AI.

Optimize, redesign, and deliver engagement models for Infrastructure services :  Streamline engagement practices, enable a compelling…