Head of Software Engineering

Wavendon

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Are you ready to lead a 50+ person engineering team through real, strategic change?

We're hiring a Head of Software Engineering to shape the future of a high-performing tech function. You’ll report to the CTO and work alongside other “Head Of” peers to transform how software is built, tested, and released.

About you:

You bring clarity to complexity, can paint a compelling vision, and unite managers around a common purpose.
You’ve got experience working with B2B software products, high-availability systems, and transactional platforms.
You understand software observability, performance monitoring, and the importance of resilience and self-healing capabilities.
You’ve recruited and nurtured diverse, high-performing teams, from grads to senior leaders, and you champion continuous development. What you’ll do:

Lead and develop Engineering, QA, and Scrum teams
Drive Agile, product-led software delivery across the SDLC
Uplift DevOps, CI/CD, and deployment pipelines
Raise standards in secure coding, automation, and observability
Shape and deliver a continuous improvement roadmap You won’t write code, but you’ll bring deep software knowledge and lead by influence. You’ll know when to drop down into the delivery detail and when to focus on driving strategy.

The team have strong foundations in place. You’ll be the person to take them to the next level.

Location: Milton Keynes HQ, 3 days per week office based. With occasional travel to offshore teams, ad hoc.
Salary: Up to £140K + benefits
Permanent

We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters

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