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Head of Engineering

1 month ago

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 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.