Head of Software Engineering
Ready to shape the future of technology in one of the UK’s leading education resources businesses?
Findel is embarking on an exciting multi‐year technology transformation — modernising our platforms, elevating our digital experiences, and unlocking new ways to support schools, MATs and nurseries across the country.
We’re looking for a Head of Software Engineering & Innovation who can lead that charge.
This role is designed for a future CTO in the making — someone who combines strategic thinking, hands‐on engineering leadership, and a passion for delivering real customer and business impact.
The Opportunity
As our Head of Software Engineering & Innovation, you will:
- Shape our application and solution architecture for the next 2–3 years.
- Lead a talented engineering team to build scalable, secure, modern digital solutions that effectively leverage automation, data insights and AI capabilities.
- Drive innovation across the organisation by championing AI adoption, intelligent automation and modern engineering practices that accelerate delivery and performance.
- Partner closely with colleagues across Technology, Product, Data, Commercial and Operations to create seamless, end‐to‐end, AI‐enabled solutions that enhance customer and colleague experiences.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to the Leadership and Executive teams, providing clear guidance on opportunities, risks, governance and emerging technologies.
- Play a key role in Findel’s digital transformation — improving customer experience, operational efficiency and colleague productivity.
- Be accountable for the organisation’s AWS cloud platform, ensuring appropriate governance, cost management, security and operational reliability.
This is a hands‐on, strategic, and highly visible role. You’ll get to influence major technology decisions and help design the foundations of Findel’s future from a technology perspective.
What You’ll Lead & Deliver
- Modern, scalable software engineering practices and standards
- End‐to‐end delivery of digital products and platforms
- Solution architecture and technical direction
- Adoption of agile, DevOps and CI/CD ways of working
- Innovation, AI solutions, applications & solutions prototyping and continuous improvement
- Improvements in platform reliability, quality and speed of delivery
- Cross‐functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement
What You Bring
- Proven leadership in software engineering or platform delivery
- Strong architectural thinking and engineering judgment
- Hands‐on technical expertise across modern stacks, cloud and integrations
- Experience delivering high‐quality digital products at pace
- Ability to simplify complexity and communicate clearly
- Curiosity, energy and a growth mindset
- Desire to shape and one day step into a CTO‐level role
If you're passionate about building modern engineering cultures, love creating practical solutions to real business
challenges, and want to make a big impact in a sector with real purpose — this is the role for you.
Why Findel?
- A meaningful mission supporting UK education
- A leadership team committed to real, sustained digital transformation
- Opportunity to build, influence and grow into the future CTO function
- A collaborative, supportive and ambitious culture
- Hybrid working with flexibility
- Real ownership, visible impact, and the ability to make change happen quickly
Ready to Lead the Change?
Apply now and help shape the next chapter of Findel’s technology journey.