Head of Engineering

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Norton Blake Full time

Head of Engineering - Hybrid - Permanent - £100k per annum


As the Head of Engineering you will be instrumental in driving innovation and technical excellence across our department. Your primary responsibilities will include setting a clear strategic vision, developing our people, and establishing best practices to inspire our engineers to be Digital Change Makers for our clients. You will cultivate a collaborative, growth-minded culture that empowers our team to stay ahead of the technology curve and exceed client expectations.

Responsibilities:

  • Foster a collaborative, customer-centric engineering culture focused on innovation, continuous improvement, and technical excellence across Front-end, Server-side, and Cloud disciplines.
  • Demonstrate technical authority and capability to build trust as a subject matter expert with our clients.
  • Oversee and drive the strategy for our managed services offering, interfacing with clients and account leads.
  • Provide strategic leadership and technical direction for the engineering department, defining the roadmap and innovation strategy, and leading the team to execute against it.
  • Partner closely with other Heads of Departments to deliver strategy initiatives across the business
  • Mentor, manage, and develop the engineering leadership team, promoting career growth, a growth mindset, and succession planning across our 60 Engineers.

Key skills:

  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing, cross-functional engineering teams in a consulting or professional services environment.
  • Deep expertise across front-end (HTML, JavaScript, React), server-side (.NET, Node.js), and cloud (AWS, Azure) technologies.
  • Solid understanding of containerization (Docker), infrastructure-as-code, and continuous deployment practices.
  • Previous hands-on software engineering experience, including several years in an impactful engineering leadership role.
  • Proficient in Agile/Scrum methodologies, including experience with SAFe.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify and adopt emerging technologies and industry trends.
  • Experience supporting new business activities and client-facing interactions as a subject matter expert.


If you are a visionary leader with a passion for driving technical innovation and excellence, please get in touch for a confidential discussion

Head of Engineering - Hybrid - Permanent - £100k per annum

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