Head of Engineering

Job Title: Head of Engineering

Salary: £140,216 - £164,960

Location: London

Hours: Full-time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London Office

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About this opportunity

We're seeking a dynamic and experienced Tech Lead to join our cross-functional content, design & marketing teams within the Personalised Experiences and Communication Platform. This role is crucial in driving technical excellence and innovation within our content and marketing functions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, SaaS product management, and a deep understanding of content management and creation tools such as Adobe AEM, Adobe Workfront and Figma.

What you’ll do

• Technical Leadership: Lead the engineering team in the design, development, and implementation of content and marketing technology solutions.

• SaaS Product Management: Oversee the integration, customization, and optimization of SaaS products like Adobe AEM, Workfront and Figma to enhance content and marketing workflows.

• In-House Engineering: Manage in-house software development products to build solutions that complement existing SaaS tools.  Support teams in designing, developing, testing and deploying and maintaining high-quality and highly available applications that can leverage AI to provide improved efficiency and personalised experiences for our twenty-six million customers and users.

• Innovation: Drive innovation by exploring new technologies and methodologies to improve content and marketing efficiency and effectiveness.  Foster a culture of innovation to ensure we deliver high quality services, maximise value of our investments and use technology to solve problems in new ways.

• Team Development: Mentor and develop engineering team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement, inclusivity and diversity.

• Stakeholder Communication & Collaboration: Communicate technical concepts and roadmap status to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment.  Work closely with marketing, design, content, product, and IT teams to align technical solutions with business goals.

• Application Management: manage technology budgets, resources and allocating them efficiently across products and services.  Take ownership and accountability for delivery, operations risk management and total cost of services

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a wonderful place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need

• Strong leadership, management, and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and empower the software engineering team.

• Proven experience in SaaS marketing and content products such as Adobe AEM, Workfront, and Figma. 

• Experience integrating multiple SaaS products with a strong focus on automation where possible.

• Strong knowledge of AI & ML capabilities within SaaS

• Hands-on proven experience of systems design, software development, testing, monitoring, and operational stability.

• Proven experience and knowledge of automation and CI/CD

• Best practice coding/scripting experience developed in a commercial/industry setting (Python, SQL, Java, Scala or Go).

• Practical experience of Cloud native solutions

• Good understating of cloud storage, networking, and resource provisioning

• You'll have the strategic vision and tenacity to own the technical and organisational changes required to embed a successful modern engineering culture of continuous integration, automation, continuous delivery with DevOps practices

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in/all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!