Head of Engineering – Individual Customer Savings Lab
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Job Title: Head of Engineering – Individual Customer Savings Lab
Location: Leeds or Bristol
Working Pattern: Hybrid, with at least two days per week (40%) at our Leeds or Bristol office.
About this opportunity
Are you looking for a technology focused leadership role which will enable you to drive tech collaboration; input and advise the strategic vision and direction for the Individual Customer Savings Lab whilst inspiring our engineering teams to be creative, innovative, and empowered to reach their full potential?
The purpose of the Head of Engineering is to work with the Lab Product Owner to provide effective leadership and management of the teams in their Lab. Specifically, this requires setting the vision, mobilisation of the teams required to deliver it and ensuring effective delivery execution. With the Lab PO they are also responsible for all operational management activities including workforce plans, risk and issue mitigation and cost management. There is a particular focus on the ways of working and overall engineering experience, where the Engineering Lead is responsible for creating the right environment for effective delivery which will include the identification of blockers and action plans to remove them.
You will:
* Drive the highest standard of technology and engineering delivery across the Lab and Investment Platform.
* Jointly assume ownership, development, and accountability of Lab strategic and quarterly OKRs, and be incentivised against a balanced set of business and technology outcomes.
* Optimise, evolve, and deliver an efficient operating model.
* Support shaping of the backlog and prioritising outcomes which are essential to keep the solution / product in good health.
* Create an organisation that is truly data driven and providing the best value propositions to our customers.
* Define the What and Why the team deliver, and how through a combination of engineering solutions and changes to our ways of working (i.e., agile and instrumentation).
What you'll need
* To be a visionary leader and an advocate for digital transformation.
* A passion for team development; allowing colleagues to develop in different/new technologies and mature in ways of working, resulting in a successful team.
* Extensive experience and technical engineering knowledge and implementation of a broad range of platforms, including public cloud.
* Technology agnostic and willing to adapt your approach in pursuit of the best solution; enables via an excellent knowledge and understanding of multiple engineering & software design solutions.
* Experienced in providing Software Engineering leadership, oversight, technical and people leadership across multiple teams.
* Successful in building high performing mission driven cultures.
* You will inspire delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence & trust.
* Have extensive experience in hands on Software Engineering, Test Driven Development, Event Driven and/or Cloud Native Architectures.
* Experienced in full stack development with demonstrable knowledge in React, Microservices, APIs, Databases and Observability.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
Benefits
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual performance-related bonus
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
* 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
Seniority level
Executive
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
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