Head of Engineering

JOB TITLE: Head of Engineering - Consumer Servicing & Engagement Platform

SALARY: £121,023 - £142,380

LOCATION(S): Bristol

HOURS: [Full-time]

WORKING PATTERN: Our enactment benignant is hybrid, which involves spending astatine slightest 2 days per week currently, oregon 40% of our time, astatine our Bristol Office.

About this opportunity…

This is simply a clip of maturation for the platform. We're passionate astir gathering a Diverse, collaborative, empowered and skilled squad of engineers. We're connected the travel to simplify and modernise our tech stack and innovate utilizing caller technologies. We're keen to determination towards our people authorities with a unreality archetypal (private and public) attack successful our hosting strategy and to alteration our systems from monolith to microservices whilst decommissioning our bequest estate.

Collaboration is captious to the occurrence of this role. As Head of Engineering, you'll enactment collaboratively with Head of Product alongside different engineering leads wrong the platform. You'll enactment hand-in-hand starring the teams with the Product Owner to:

• Jointly presume the ownership, development, and accountability of strategical and quarterly objectives & cardinal results, and are incentivised against a balanced acceptable of concern and exertion outcomes.

• Optimise, evolve, and present an businesslike operating model.

• Support shaping of the roadmap and prioritising outcomes which are captious to support the solution / merchandise successful bully health.

• Create an organisation that is genuinely information driven and providing the champion worth propositions to our customers.

• Define the What and How the squad deliver, done a operation of engineering solutions and changes to our ways of moving i.e. agile and instrumentation.

About us…

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions successful our people, information and tech to alteration the mode we conscionable the ever-changing needs of our 26 cardinal customers. We're increasing with purpose. Join america connected our travel and you volition too…

What you'll get progressive in…

As our Head of Engineering, you'll pb the method absorption and make tech strategy successful collaboration with concern and endeavor architects. You'll thrust the halfway exertion docket wrong the platform. You'll beryllium liable for the method roadmap, absorption of method indebtedness and different method demands. You'll beryllium accountable for the engineering teams that volition design, build, integrate, deploy, and tally the system. Particularly software, that supports the concern and operations, with a absorption connected resilience, debased latency, reusability, accessibility by 3rd parties arsenic good arsenic scalability.

What you tin bring to the role:

The relation volition beryllium suited to idiosyncratic who combines enactment skills with beardown method acquisition and comes from a hands connected an engineering background.

As a leader, you:

• Drive ample teams (100+) strategically and assistance them to propulsion the boundaries to spearhead into aboriginal barring the limitations.

• Enable a civilization based connected the fundamentals of intelligence information instilling confidence, authenticity and spot passim your teams.

• Driving an Agile mindset, bringing successful beardown acquisition connected the usage of Agile ways of moving and tooling.

• Create a civilization of learning and continuous betterment done a "Fail Fast, Learn Faster" mentality wrong teams to experimentation and trial caller ways of engineering, to enactment arsenic a alteration cause for engineering and squad culture, and to cultivate a systems-thinking and user-experience led plan approach.

• Have a beardown passionateness for and method knowing of extremity to extremity systems including lawsuit facing interfaces and backend and tin supply support, cognition and mentoring to the teams.

• Lead designing operating models, make hiring strategy and assistance teams to standard enactment concern maturation utilising thin and agile principles

• Encourage teams to usage the champion engineering practices, tooling, and methods and lend towards inner-source activities and be MeetUps.

• Leading & successfully delivering ample standard alteration (£15M+)

As an Engineer, you:

• Understand Web, Microservices, Cloud eco-systems.

• Understand Systems Thinking and Service Design to mitigate reactive solutions that leads to further method debt.

• Understand the benefits of BDD & TDD and guarantee engineers constitute upfront tests against squad defined agile definitions and transportation stories.

• Automation of everything volition beryllium a priority.

• Have proven knowing of the full bundle improvement lifecycle and acquisition successful Agile transportation of products on with cognition of modern bundle improvement toolsets including DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.

Our absorption is to guarantee we are inclusive each day, gathering an organisation that reflects modern nine and celebrates diverseness successful each its forms. We privation our radical to consciousness that they beryllium and tin beryllium their best, careless of background, identity, oregon culture. We were 1 of the archetypal large organisations to acceptable goals connected diverseness successful elder roles, make a menopause wellness package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it is wherefore we particularly invited applications from under-represented groups. We are disablement confident. So, if you would similar tenable adjustments to beryllium made to our recruitment processes, conscionable fto america know.

We besides connection a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

* A generous pension publication of up to 15%

* An yearly performance-related bonus

* Share schemes including escaped shares.

* Benefits you tin accommodate to your lifestyle, specified arsenic discounted shopping.

* 30 days' holiday, with slope holidays connected top

* A scope of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental permission policies

Ready for a vocation wherever you tin person a affirmative interaction arsenic you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply contiguous and find retired more.

Join our journey.