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Head of Engineering (Journalism Stream)

Employer
The Guardian
Location
London
Salary
120000.00 GBP Annual
Closing date
30 Nov 2021

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Sector
Telecoms / Utilities
Responsibilities
Information Technology
Position/Level
Director
Contract Type
Permanent
Language
English

Guardian Media Group (GMG) is a leading global media organisation, the publisher of the Guardian, which celebrates its 200th anniversary in 2021, the Observer and the Guardian.com, which attracts over 200 million global unique browsers each month. We are renowned for our ground breaking independent journalism and our award-winning digital products.

As part of the growth of the Guardian digital audience and our digital revenues, we are increasing the number of Product & Engineering teams and we have identified the need for the Head of Engineering to join the Journalism team.

About the Role

The Head of Engineering will support several Engineering Managers (usually around 5) in their technical, managerial and personal development. You will also line manage a Principal Engineer with whom you will work with to drive the Journalism technology strategy.

As a senior member of our engineering management team, you should insist on the highest standards to drive your teams to deliver as fast as possible, high-quality products, services and processes. You will lead initiatives to continuously improve our management practices and ensure we do our best to support the progression of individuals.

You will report directly to the Director of Engineering, and will notably discuss and advise relative importance of technology opportunities in your stream area with them.

About You

  • You have more than 5 years of engineering management experience, with at least one year of line managing engineering managers.
  • You have more than 10 years of experience of doing software development with at least 2 years in the news and media domain, with expert knowledge in the architecture challenges to build editorial tools for newsrooms and platforms that scale to a very large audience.

What we offer

  • Flexible working (see below for details)
  • Generous pension scheme; if you contribute 5% then the Guardian will contribute 8-12% (depending on your age)
  • Mental and Physical Health insurance and dental scheme
  • 26 days annual leave and the option to purchase an extra 5 days
  • Up to 18 weeks of parental leave at full pay
  • Multi-faith prayer room
  • Cycle to work scheme and subsidised gym membership
  • Paid volunteering days
  • Annual season ticket loan


More about flexible working

We encourage flexible working to better balance the needs of the company and employees as their circumstances change over time, and in order to attract and retain a diverse team. No two situations are identical, so please discuss with us at or before offer stage. In order to help applicants, here are some broad guidelines of the level of flexibility we are able to give for remote working. With the current pandemic situation almost everyone is currently working from home all the time, but this is a temporary situation and we are currently not forecasting to have people remote working all their time in the medium term, once the situation will enable people to commute and work safely from the office.

If you are a full time employee and wish to work at home, expect to be required to work in the office while you get up to speed, and then at least 60% time in the office after that in order to maintain a relationship with the wider team. In the long term it may be possible to go as low as 1 day a week.

We strive for transparency in remuneration. The salary for Head of Engineering at the Guardian is GBP120k.

We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds, different lived experiences and different perspectives. A diverse team means we can better reflect and engage our global audience. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool, and also in including them, fostering a culture where people's voices can be heard and our employees look forward to coming to work.

Application instructions:

To apply please upload your CV. You must already have the right to work in the UK.
Our interview process involves 4 stages: we are currently running the interview process remotely.

About Us

We value and respect all differences in all people (seen and unseen) at the Guardian. We aspire to inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future. The Guardian actively encourages applications from BAME candidates.
At The Guardian, many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements.

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