Director of Data and Software Engineering

Shippon
2 months ago
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Is your next move to own, define and deliver a data, platforms and software engineering strategy and vision, setting this vision for your teams and truly using technology to deliver value for customer and internal stakeholders?

Understanding the engineering, intricacies and relationships between Architects, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Devops Engineer and QA Engineers is key, you will create team engagement, build productive relationships, and connect technology to business strategy.

Influence through your expertise, credibility, and leadership. Challenge and be challenged and bring all those cross functional teams with you to solve complex problems.

Note: to build the necessary key senior stakeholder relationships, you will need to be able to comfortably commute to our Abingdon Head Office. Please consider this commitment carefully before applying.

This will of course be aligned with strategic business objectives and enterprise architecture, your strategy and vision will ensure you can translate business objectives into technical roadmaps and plans and communicate this to your teams. We are keen to talk about this, along with your approach to successful execution and delivery of secure, scalable, quality data capabilities and software products.

There is much to do as we mature and modernise. We are in the final stages of a major CRM transformation, new products are launching this year, we are building a new data engineering platform, function and team. You will lead on integrating this and them into the technology team and wider business, along with successful delivery and continuous improvement of software delivery.

You will want to encourage and promote a culture of initiative, ideas, and innovation as you and we set the technology vision for the next 3 years.

Lead and inspire and manage through your managers. Empower them, drive accountability and performance but be there to support and develop, whilst nurturing talent, aspirations, and careers.

You will be accountable for the availability and performance of all data and software products, so you will need to be able to evidence where and how you have done this, at a similar level, for a similar sized and complex organisation. An understanding of Telecoms and it’s enterprise architecture, would be advantageous.

Gigaclear is a growing Fibre Broadband (FTTP / FTTH) company, developing our fibre-to-the-premises broadband infrastructure to some of the most difficult to reach areas of the UK, empowering those communities with broadband to rival any city.

Staff rewards, benefits and opportunities

We foster a collaborative, engaging culture that empowers staff to grow and maximise their skills. We want to challenge our people in a fair environment where hard work is rewarded and a path for progression is open to all.

Generous employer pension; up to 8% matched contribution 

Income protection & life assurance 

25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), holiday purchase scheme and Yay Days!  

Health cash plan, 24/7 remote GP access and Employee Assistance Programme including counselling & legal advice 

Unlimited access to online training and development content via our Learning Management System 

Long service benefits and monthly employee recognition 

Enhanced maternity and paternity provisions 

Flexible working environment 

Health & Wellbeing initiatives and company funded social events 

Our approach is to work guided by our mission, vision and values.

Our Mission - Empowering communities with brilliant broadband

Our Vision - Connected Communities

Our Values - Own it, Find the Right Way, Work Together, Win Together

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