We are looking for a
Senior Director of Engineering
to lead a critical cloud-first transformation initiative across our UKI business. This role demands a deep engineering leader
with a proven track record of delivering technology transformation projects, AWS hands on experience, and influencing enterprise-wide engineering practices. The ideal candidate will bring technical gravitas
, strategic foresight, and the ability to align diverse stakeholders toward a unified engineering vision. The role will need to provide for technical leadership to ensure solutions are adequately designed and engineered to meet client customer needs while meeting constraints of time, cost and quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading the product engineering teams and accountable for creating and nurturing a culture of Engineering Excellence
- Lead, Mentor, Coach and develop Engineering teams, using characteristics of great leadership to improve team effectiveness and deliver value in line with business strategic direction.
- Accountable for project engineering delivery outcomes. Use effective MI and metrics to track health of projects and engineering estate.
- Collaborate across the enterprise for this strategic initiative.
- Be an impactful operational escalation point and lead resolver for engineering and solution design issues. Active decision making to remove roadblocks for the teams.
- Drive adoption of best practices with test driven development, CI/CD , automated regression leading to high quality and high velocity engineering deliveries.
- Be an avid advocate and practitioner of GenAI capabilities to drive quality and efficiency in all aspects of product engineering.
- Security first mindset and engineering partnering GSO to ensure multi-level security embedded across all new capability meeting all Experian and industry standards.
- Manage engineering delivery risks.
- Partner with product and architecture teams to deliver in key objectives around latency, data refresh and quality, elasticity, configurability and resilience of the system.
- Embed an innovation and experimentation mindset in team members.
- Make use of metrics and measures to drive insight and continuous improvement to ensure the Engineering teams are continuously improving (e.g. DORA, Application availability, change failure rate, time to restore, etc) and impediments are processed promptly.
- Ensure the platform is engineered with 0 tech debt and process / guardrails to ensure ever greening of estate
- Embed a broader operating environment that is supportive of Agile delivery-based methods to deliver high end business outcomes.
- Act as a business change driver at the senior level, applying appropriate organisational change management methodologies as required.
- Contributes to the Technology Roadmap to achieve business goals/objectives and provide a sustainable platform for future growth and operational needs.
Experience and Skills
- Software development and engineering leadership experience in modern cloud native platforms of AWS.
- Extensive of delivering significant data / back end engineering transformation projects on AWS.
- Knowledge and appreciation of technical design and architectural patterns with regards to modern financial systems.
- Deep knowledge of agile methodologies and best practice and experience in a scaled agile delivery environment.
- Experience of managing navigating complex engineering lead delivery organizations that drive valuable customer outcomes.
- Experience balancing multiple priorities, dealing with ambiguity and thought leadership in areas that may be new to stakeholders.
- Experience leading and coaching high performing Engineering teams, developing team members and supporting them to grow.
- Experience in the network and security domains related to software engineering development efforts.
- Experience in collaborating with diverse global stakeholders. Working effectively with Product teams to ensure quality backlog for engineering delivery teams.
- A personal style that embraces servant leadership, teamwork, cares deeply about the work and the team, and shares openly and honestly with all.
- Relentless positivity and enthusiasm that helps teams catch the spark of transformation and imagine new possibilities
- Proven track record of enabling data-driven continuous improvement to allow teams to deliver value at pace while maintaining quality.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to connect with people an expert influencer.
- Can communicate effectively between technical and non-technical audiences across the business.
- Can navigate the complex landscape of technologies, 3rd party suppliers, internal and cross-department teams.
- The right candidate will enjoy working autonomously and is able to constructively challenge the status quo.
