The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job title: Head of Software Engineering
Location: Peterborough (Hybrid)
Package includes: Salary from £100,000 plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus, car allowance, private healthcare, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.
Are you a commercially astute engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of technology, people, and business strategy? Do you have the vision and credibility to lead multidisciplinary software teams, shape architectural direction, and deliver scalable, high-impact solutions across cloud, IoT, and mobile platforms?
We are seeking a Head of Software Engineering to define and execute the engineering vision across a portfolio of customer-facing software and connected technology products within our AgTech division. Reporting to the Head of Ag Tech, you will lead distributed teams across the UK and Ireland, creating a high-performance engineering culture, establishing clear technical direction, and enabling predictable, value-driven delivery.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Setting and delivering the software engineering strategy across IoT, cloud, mobile, and web platforms, aligned to business growth objectives.
* Leading and developing high-performing, multidisciplinary engineering teams (embedded, front-end, mobile, data, and back-end) across multiple locations.
* Driving architectural alignment and harmonisation between Intellync and wider business systems to create scalable, sustainable platforms.
* Providing technical leadership across the Microsoft stack (.NET, C#, Azure), including architectural oversight, code review, and proof-of-concept development where required.
* Embedding strong people management frameworks, including performance management, succession planning, and the development of a structured career framework (e.g. SFIA-aligned).
* Ensuring commercially sound engineering decisions—balancing innovation, technical debt, resourcing, and ROI to maximise product sustainability and delivery velocity.
* Overseeing the full software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, security, reliability, and regulatory compliance.
* Partnering with Product, Commercial, Finance, and senior leadership teams (including board engagement) to ensure engineering capability directly supports customer outcomes and strategic priorities.
What You’ll Bring
* Extensive strategic leadership experience managing engineering teams of 10+ engineers, with a strong track record of building and transforming capability.
* Deep technical expertise across C#, .NET, and Azure (essential), with strong architectural credibility.
* A hands-on engineering background with experience reviewing code, approving pull requests, and leading proof-of-concept work.
* Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to balance technical excellence against business value and long-term sustainability.
* Proven people leadership experience, including change management, performance improvement, and career pathway development.
* Experience operating within distributed or multi-location teams.
* Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging at senior leadership or board level.
* Budget ownership and forecasting experience.
Location
This role can be based in the UK or Ireland, with remote working fully supported. As a senior leadership position, regular travel is expected to support team engagement, stakeholder relationships, and cross-functional collaboration across multiple sites.
You should expect to travel approximately one week per month across the UK and Ireland, including visits to engineering teams and key business locations.
Skills & Experience
About The Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
About us
Intellync bridge the gap between people, data and technology in agriculture. We deliver in-depth, intuitive and insightful solutions that span the value chain from farmers to retailers.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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