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Head of Engineering

Employer
Reed Technology
Location
West Midlands
Salary
70000.00 - 100000.00 GBP Annual
Closing date
7 Jul 2022

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

The Head of Engineering plays a pivotal role in people, technology and delivery., is trusted by business and tech leaders and is a trusted voice for technology and innovation, modern ways of working in their respective business community. They will have a critical role in enabling and understanding technology at scale for the Group.

Heads of Engineering are trusted leaders of leaders, structuring and organising teams to deliver at pace and foster a high-performance culture. With clear accountability and responsibility, senior engineering managers ensure that their teams operate in an empowered, professional environment where they can be at their best at all times. The HOE is responsible for the processes and path to production and deployment of change, and is accountable for the live service of all products within their domain. They will have significant experience with lean and agile methodologies, applying these appropriately in accordance to the domain and technology involved, in integrating and deploying bought-in solutions.

People Leadership

Provide inspiring, motivational trust to a team of technology professionals, within and outside the company, and create the environment in which those teams can be their brilliant best. Lead and mentor teams of engineers to deliver unique and differentiating products

Lead the evolution of our teams and stakeholders to ever more agile ways of working, supporting cultural change, removing wasteful activity and continually finding ways to improve outcomes and value. Foster a culture of innovation and high technical standards, whether your team is developing software, or integrating and deploying bought-in solutions

Engagement and Communication

Communicate clearly and convincingly with technology, business and product leaders, ensuring that they are appropriately engaged in all parts of the product life cycle, from vision and strategy to operation and decommissioning

Become known for your close understanding of your domain, proactive identification of unique technology-enabled opportunities, efficiencies, delivery excellence and clarity of communication.

Delivery

Form and support diverse technology teams, ensuring delivery and pace.

Stay abreast of technology developments to ascertain their potential for integration into your area of remit or across the wider domains and organisation.

Understand technology so that you can compellingly explain, communicate any trade-offs and risks. Understand technical decisions and their risk or reward to delivery and the wider organisation.

Ensure that all new and enhanced products and platforms are released into service visibly and seamlessly, in line with overall business change plans and expectations

Own the full life cycle of products in your area, including supporting live service and rapidly resolving issues

Governance, planning, financial and supplier management

Responsibility for managing and delivering financial budgets, partnering with key business and product teams in the annual, quarterly and continuous planning activities for the relevant products and platforms, setting clear ambitions, expectations and investment budgets for and through the financial year

Ensure that operational plans for your products are in place to support all key business events, from Black Friday, to Christmas, Easter and other seasonal peaks.

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