Head/Director Software Engineer

The Role: Head/Director Software Engineer

Location: Sheffield, UK

Position Type: Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available: Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite

Job Description:

The Software Engineering job is highly technical and hands-on providing leadership by example. The role enhances our engineering team's capabilities by driving the implementation of effective technical solutions that maximise customer value. The role serves as a technical consultant with deep expertise across various domains and acts as a strategist, influencing engineering business decisions and processes, while also providing leadership in technical disciplines, competencies, and professions. Additionally, the role develops architectures, standards, and tools to guide the engineering function. The PE may be an individual contributor (IC) or lead a small team of other engineers.

The Software Engineering job leads the systematic application of engineering approaches to the development, operation, maintenance and retirement of software applications, systems and platforms - encompassing devOps engineering discipline aimed at ensuing software meets user requirements, is reliable, scalable and efficient.

The job will lead the end-to-end delivery of the software development lifecycle - expert level understanding of functional and non-functional requirements, software development (coding), technical testing, software release and production support activities.

The role demands strong expertise in agile methodologies, with a deep understanding of continuous delivery and DevSecOps principles - must be able to do small, low-risk, high cadence change. Typically expected to complete regular production releases.

In this role, technology or specific programming languages will not be a barrier to getting things done - the job requires engineers who are natural problem solvers with deep understanding of core technical principles and concepts, enabling them to be diverse to deliver impactful solutions.

The role will also ensure the delivery of high-quality products by enforcing rigorous automated testing, code reviews and performance optimisation.

The role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

• Lead research of new technologies and drive their adoption to stay abreast of industry trends and standards
  
  
• Contribute to architecture by asking the right questions to ensure architecture matches business needs
  
  
• Communicate with code, can identify a problem or an opportunity and then engineers a solution
  
  
• Lead the creation, continual refinement, and active enforcement of Client's development standards in order to ensure that technology can be leveraged as a sustainable competitive advantage
  
  
• Demonstrate mastery of technical discipline - and explain technology well to business people or senior managers such that they buy into a technology direction
  
  
• Collaborates across functional areas to define, prioritize and ensure implementation of specific innovations to improve technical functionality in support of business needs, efficiencies and revenue.
  
  
• Communicate ideas succinctly - ability to communicate technical big picture vision, strategy and direction to all audiences
  
  
• Sell Client as a company and their organization as a team to potential candidates. Inspires potential recruits to join the company
  
  
• Influence across the bank and beyond Client in the industry (be that tech or banking)
  
  
• Apply strategic thinking to many problems - a generalist, not a specialist in one domain (e.g. just networks)
  
  
• Mentor technology talent and take an active role in the development of other engineers - continuously improves themselves and their team
  
  
• Provides leadership to software development managers, addresses technical, resource and personnel issues
  
  
• Collaborate directly with Product Owners without the involvement of intermediary roles such as architects, technical leads, business analysts, scrum master and project managers