Overview

As the Head of engineering your job will be to deliver against the technical strategy by leading the technical teams and the technical product teams for this global organisation.

You will directly line manage a head of product, head of UX, head of product engineering and Senior Engineering manager. The group you will head up is over 120 people based in the UK and across Europe.

Your job will be to drive the evolution of various customer facing platforms, you will be heavily involved with technical architecture (not doing it, but being involved).

Your stakeholders will both the non-technical C-Suite (CEO, CFO, COO) and on the technical side the CTO and Director of Technology.

This is a SAFe Agile environment, the teams are organised in product teams.

It is a vital position as a technical figure head, leader of people and the glue between the C-suite and large technical and product team.

About you

You will be an accomplished leader of a team of over 40 people, with a thorough understanding of SAFe agile delivery n a product led organisation.

You will be from a hands on technical background with experience with software architecture.

Ideally you will have worked for a B2C business and be used to coping with the demands on millions of users.

You will be a great line manager and be blessed with the ability to mange multiple board level stakeholders.

This role requires you to be a leading technologist, and also someone with incredible business skills.

The company

This is an entertainment business with millions of users around the world, they are well known and you might even be a customer of theirs.

Head quartered in South West London, they have offices around the globe. They have an positive environment and a team who embrace change.

Location

Based in South West London, you will come to the office 2/3 days per week.

Money

Circa £150,000 plus stock options, pension, 30 days, healthcare, full corporate benefits (plus tickets for lots of sporting events every now and then)

What should you do now?

If you are at Head of Engineering level, have the technical and managerial experience and this sounds great, click the link and send me your (non- AI produced*) CV ASAP. *I can’t stress enough about the AI produced CV’s

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Information Technology

Industries

• Entertainment Providers and Technology, Information and Media

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