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
Electrical Principal Engineering Authority at px Group overseeing engineering practices and compliance. Responsible for risk management and integration of new assets in regulated industries.
JDE Technical Lead overseeing end - to - end technical transformation activities, and collaborating with functional teams in enterprise applications. Involves troubleshooting and fixing critical issues in JDE.
Supporting Core & Services strategy and network evolution analyses at Vodafone. Coordinating Privacy and Security Management processes and vendor related issues within the team.
Principal Software Engineer developing complex software systems for HID Global's secure identity solutions. Involves hands - on coding, architecture decisions, and cross - team collaboration.
Senior Software Engineer powering innovative backend services for Paramount+. Collaborating closely with technical teams while mentoring junior engineers in a dynamic environment.
Senior Engineer at Mercedes - Benz Türk developing diagnostic solutions for Daimler Buses worldwide. Responsible for software development and technical design of diagnostic systems ensuring product quality.
Software Developer creating software tools for aerospace applications at L3Harris Technologies. Collaborating on development initiatives and various software projects, primarily using .NET technologies.
Senior Engineer I at Phillips 66 combining engineering and physics models with ML. Enhancing safety, reliability, and profitability through digital product development.
Customer Success Integration Engineer in IDEMIA responsible for system integration and customer support. Overseeing software validation while collaborating with global teams.
Student assistant position involving Full Stack Development within a leading research institute in Berlin. Contributing to software solutions in process management and industry projects.