Head of Engineering Leadership

5 days ago

Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Motability Operations Full time
About The Role

A new leadership position in the Technology leadership team, the Head of Engineering leads, ensures quality, sets ways of working and manages the organisation's engineering department.

The Head of Engineering spearheads innovation in the engineering function, ensuring high quality delivery and running of MO's technology software. They define ways of working and best practices, as well as developing tools and approaches to ensure the successful delivery and ongoing management of software in MO.

The Head of Engineering also drives high-quality pastoral care and career progression for software and quality engineers in MO.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and vision to guide the engineering and quality teams in developing cutting-edge, innovative solutions and products.
  • Quality and Best Practices: Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, and quality assurance processes.
  • Technical Delivery: Oversee the technical delivery of projects within MO, bringing together devops, build and testing in projects.
  • Collaboration and Communication: Foster effective communication and collaboration between engineering teams and other departments within the organisation.
  • Resource Management: Work closely with project and product teams to flexibly resource teams and deliver software for MO
  • Budgeting, Supplier and Cost Control: Prepare and manage the Engineering department budget, controlling expenses, and optimising spending while maintaining high standards of service delivery.

About You

We are looking for a highly experienced and skilled individual to lead our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

  • Providing technical leadership and vision to guide the engineering and quality teams
  • Establishing engineering best practices, coding standards, and quality assurance processes
  • Overseeing the technical delivery of projects within MO
  • Fostering effective communication and collaboration between engineering teams and other departments
  • Working closely with project and product teams to flexibly resource teams and deliver software for MO
  • Preparing and managing the Engineering department budget

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 630,000 customers and their families across the UK.

We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

  • We find solutions
  • We drive change
  • We care

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

  • Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
  • 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
  • 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
  • 1 day for volunteering
  • Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
  • Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
  • Funded health screening for over 50s
  • Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
  • Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
  • Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
  • Generous family leave policies

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