3225 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Head of Engineering
£80,000 - 150,000
Winchester Street, London
£80,000 - 150,000
Requirements
Must:
- Leadership of engineering organisations of 20 or more across multiple disciplines, including backend, web, data, ML, QA, and DevOps.
- Proven track record designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems and high-volume data pipelines.
- Strong background in cloud-native architectures and modern data stacks such as Spark or Databricks.
- Experience working closely with Data Science teams, including delivering production-grade ML models and pipelines.
- Solid understanding of modern frontend engineering practices (e.g., TypeScript, React) to guide cross-functional technical decisions.
- Robust DevOps knowledge, including CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, monitoring, reliability engineering, and cloud infrastructure management (AWS preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to balance delivery speed with long-term technical quality, reliability, and maintainability.
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering leaders and high-performing teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering roadmap and technical execution across all product and platform teams.
- Guide architectural decisions in data engineering, ML, and web application development.
- Implement engineering KPIs to improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability.
- Develop a strong engineering culture centred on ownership, collaboration, and high performance.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, and DevOps to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
- Manage engineering budgets, tooling, and cloud infrastructure costs.
Description
We are a fast-growing technology company seeking a Head of Engineering who has deep experience in building and scaling complex, data-driven platforms. This remote role involves leading multi-disciplinary teams, improving engineering execution, and driving technical excellence across high-scale distributed systems and machine-learning environments. You will own the engineering execution for a platform that processes large datasets and integrates machine-learning capabilities at scale, refining AI-assisted development practices and strengthening our technical foundation for long-term growth.
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