Hybrid Head of Engineering – Accounting

at Bright

• Job title: Head of Engineering – Accounting
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Laravel, PHP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Warwick, United Kingdom

About the role

• 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

Benefits

• **What will you get?**
• Competitive salary
• Performance based bonus
• 25 days annual leave
• Health Insurance
• Company pension
• Company events
• free food onsite
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Wellness programmes