HeadofEngineering The Job As the Headofengineering 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 headof product, headof UX, headof 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 More ❯
london (city of london), south east england, united kingdom
Initi8 Recruitment
HeadofEngineering The Job As the Headofengineering 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 headof product, headof UX, headof 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 More ❯
The Role We're working with a well-established Professional Services firm to recruit their Headof Architecture & Platform Engineering . This new position reports directly to the CTO and involves leading technical architecture strategy across their Microsoft-focused technology environment. You'll be responsible for managing a platform engineering team of 4 technical professionals … while establishing enterprise architecture standards and governance frameworks. Key Responsibilities Define and implement architecture strategy Lead the platform engineering team, focusing on development and performance management Oversee Azure-native infrastructure design and implementation Optimise Microsoft E5 licensing and platform services Establish architectural review processes and technical standards Drive system integration initiatives and DevOps practices Requirements Essential: Extensive infrastructure architecture … experience Strong Microsoft Azure platform expertise and cloud-native solution design Experience with the Microsoft 365 enterprise suite Platform engineering team management experience Understanding of regulated industry requirements (financial or professional services preferred) Strong stakeholder management and communication skills Desirable: Infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipeline experience System integration and API architecture knowledge Relevant certifications (Azure More ❯