About the role

  • Head of Software Engineering leading AI-enabled software development across Babcock’s Corporate Services. Transforming traditional engineering towards AI‑augmented and high‑automation software delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of software solutions across multiple business areas.
  • Oversee a unified software development and assurance function, driving consistency, shared standards, and intelligent automation across engineering teams.
  • Embed modern DevSecOps and AI Ops practices, ensuring agentic AI workflows are integrated into coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Grow capability across software, AI, and data engineering disciplines, building teams that confidently use AI tooling and automated development patterns.
  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement, transparency, curiosity.
  • Champion the adoption of software workflow tools and AI‑enhanced engineering pipelines across all our development teams.
  • Lead and mentor team leaders, who in turn guide developers and quality engineers, ensuring each team effectively adopts AI‑powered tools and delivery practices.
  • Work closely with senior stakeholders to align technical delivery, AI strategy, and digital transformation with wider business and IT objectives.

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps and experience embedding AI‑assisted workflows within CI/CD pipelines.
  • Hands‑on experience designing, implementing, and maturing DevOps, AIOps practices.
  • High proficiency across multiple development languages.
  • Deep understanding of modern engineering practices including agentic AI systems, code assistants, test‑generation AI, and autonomous delivery patterns.
  • Extensive experience leading, coaching, and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams through cultural and technical change.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex engineering concepts clearly to stakeholders at all levels.

Benefits

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Access to a Digital GP, annual health check and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
  • Employee share scheme
  • Employee shopping savings portal
  • Payment of Professional Fees
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
  • Holiday Trading – buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave
  • ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year
  • Flexible working options
  • A dynamic working environment
  • Single Private Medical Insurance

Job title

Head of Software Engineering

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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