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Head of Engineering

3 months ago

Sheffield, United Kingdom McGregor Boyall Full time

Head of Engineering, Hands-on, Leading from the front, DevOps, SRE, Automation

A leading player in the financial services space is looking for a Head of Engineering who can work across multiple business areas and help shape, guide, and progress these key technical functions on a global level.

The role:

The Head of Connected Engineering is responsible for working across the Technology Delivery Lifecycle, including inception, construction, testing, release, and ongoing management of a product or service. They will be required to continually enhance their skills within a number of specialisms, including front end, development, security, testing, and operational support.

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

  • Drive activities to support Engineering Transformation under our Future Fit program to include:
    • E2E automation Workflow (CI/CD)
    • Fully Automated Functional Integration test
    • Observability and Alerting
    • Reusability of Assets within Wholesale Digital (including our API estate)
  • Provide technical leadership across the end-to-end delivery and run lifecycle, utilising their skills and expertise to carry out software development, testing, and operational support activities typically being deployed to resolve the most challenging and/or impactful projects or deliveries
  • End-to-end accountability for a product or service, identifying and developing the most appropriate Technology solutions to meet customer needs as part of the Customer Journey
  • Liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the product or service's direction.
  • Establish a digital environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable, high-quality code and data.
  • Create technical test strategies, plans, and records, including unit and integration tests, within automated test environments to ensure code quality.
  • Provide support to DevOps teams working at all stages of a product or service release/change with a strong customer focus and end to end journeys, ensuring they have an excellent domain knowledge.
  • Working with Ops, Dev and Test Engineers to ensure operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues, etc.) are identified and addressed at all stages of a product or service release / change.
  • Provide support in the identification and resolution of all incidents associated with the IT service, as directed by the leadership of the DevOps team,
  • Ensure service resilience, service sustainability, and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered.
  • Responsible for automating the continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline within a DevOps Product/Service team, driving a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, technologies, and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data etc. that are applicable
  • Work with the Engineering Practice to promote the development of engineers through coaching and mentoring.
  • Identify as an authority for specific engineering disciplines providing steer/assistance to programmes or projects that require it.
  • Increase expert knowledge for every key Platform and Software Technology. Via internal training plans, Internal Coaching and mentoring and a "multiyear" organisation and hiring strategy.
  • Create a vibrant Engineering Culture and work with the engineers on the ground to set priorities. Teams need to feel empowered and part of the prioritisation discussion.

Technical Knowledge required:

  • Hands-on engineering background with experience in an individual contributor engineering role (as opposed to a people manager with experience in engineering teams)
  • Proven track record in maintaining the latest technical skills
  • Experience in working Agile environment with a strong focus on developing engineering solutions
  • Proven ability to improve developer productivity - through automation and advanced technical skills
  • Strong leadership skills, team-builder and influencer
  • Exposure and success working within a global matrix organization model
  • Proven track record in effective stakeholder management
  • Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior executives
  • Ability to think laterally and innovatively and find creative solutions with a proactive approach to problem-solving and delivery
  • Ability to understand business issues and devise solutions that deliver results, constructing fresh approaches where appropriate and making connections to other issues
  • Able to work within an ambiguous environment, prioritize and reconcile competing demands, and resolve complex issues
  • Great attention to detail and an ability to identify and manage risk
  • Highly experienced in getting the best out of people at various levels

Head of Engineering, Hands-on, Leading from the front, DevOps, SRE, Automation


McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.