Head of Engineering leading Engineering, Devops, and Infrastructure teams at Bright. Responsible for strategic technology decisions and effective resource deployment across multiple locations.
Responsibilities
Delivering the product roadmap to high quality and agreed deadlines
Lead on AI engineering initiative, showcase best practice and leverage and adoption of AI throughout the engineering lifecycle
Work with teams to ensure the engineering toolchain and process is robust and efficient
Increase visibility of engineering KPIS and deliverables
Making recommendations and presenting business advantages for technology initiatives and improvements
Working with the CPTO to design and lead the implementation of our strategy for technology while ensuring the implementation and enforcement of technology standards across the organisation
Working in close collaboration with the CPTO and CISO to establish best practices for the software development lifecycle, application delivery, infrastructure management, user experience, and security; overseeing the implementation of the entire software development lifecycle from build, through test and deploy into production
Building sustainable processes for resourcing software engineering requirements for the group
A key contributor to the Software Engineering strategy and evolution, enhancing functional and non-functional capabilities of the products and services
Promotion of best practice tools and processes
Lead on technical integration strategy
Promoting a positive work environment; continuously provide feedback, mentoring, and coaching to existing team members
Requirements
Experience in a senior leadership role within a high customer volume SaaS business
Good understanding of implementing and reacting to software instrumentation metrics
Experience with, architecting, developing, and managing application delivery on cloud platforms
A passion for AI and demonstrable implementation of AI tools and practices to increase velocity, manage technical debt and deliver at scale
Experience of successfully working for a Private Equity backed company would be an advantage
Strong Knowledge of Microsoft development languages and frameworks (C# and .net) and an appreciation of PHP and Laravel will be a distinct advantage.
Strong Knowledge of building services to deliver SAAS applications on Azure and an appreciation of AWS
Advocate/strong understanding of SOLID
Management of engineering capacity to deliver ROI against Roadmaps
Influences roadmap being a customer advocate for high quality and compelling UX
Able to articulate the business case for resolving and maintaining technical debt
Managed a significant engineering budget in excess of £2m per annum
Managed compliance heavy solutions (accountancy/tax)
Successful in working with multidisciplinary technical teams and diverse technology across multiple locations
Comfortable operating within an agile/Kanban environment and has a good understanding of the associated value drivers and measures
Ability to act as a credible representative of Bright at all levels with the ability to communicate and deliver the business strategy
High level of emotional intelligence, with the ability to gather information accurately, influence effectively and negotiate to achieve the best possible results
Incisive leader with sound judgement; must have the credibility, intellectual capacity and operational grip to gain immediate respect with the leadership team and shareholders
Exceptional analytical skills and effectively leverages data to inform opinions and solve problems
Proven track record of building strong remote teams with strong cultures
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