Job Description
Responsibilities
- Ensuring the operational stability and resilience of the software solutions owned by your team.
- Delivering high-quality software solutions that create measurable value for the business.
- Improving team maturity and driving progress towards, or maintaining, Elite DORA standards.
- Championing engineering excellence and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Establishing strong engineering standards and building pipelines to support maintainability and extensibility.
- Ensuring cross-functional requirements such as security, performance, and reliability are built into delivery.
- Driving cloud first thinking and modernisation across the technology landscape.
- Making effective use of shared platforms to maximise the value delivered by engineering teams.
Requirements
- A strong software engineering background, with experience across modern architectures, cloud platforms, and scalable backend systems.
- A track record of building, leading, and developing high performing engineering teams.
- Strong technical judgement across system design, software architecture, and modern engineering practices.
- A DevOps mindset with a strong belief in "you build it, you run it".
- A strong focus on quality, testing, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Excellent leadership, communication, analytical, and problem solving skills.
- The ability to lead senior engineers and technical partners towards clear outcomes without over prescribing solutions.
- Strong influencing skills and the credibility to work effectively with senior stakeholders across technical and non technical teams.
- A servant leadership mindset and a willingness to take ownership of complex challenges.
Hard Skills
- software engineering
- cloud platforms
- scalable backend systems
- system design
- software architecture
- modern engineering practices
- quality assurance
- testing
- operational excellence
- DevOps
Soft Skills
- leadership
- communication
- analytical skills
- problem solving
- influencing skills
- servant leadership
- ownership
- team development
- cross functional collaboration
- innovation