Chief Engineering & Platform Strategy Leader

Boxxe Limited

Hemel Hempstead

Hybrid

GBP 110,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Boxxe Limited in Hemel Hempstead is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead a high-performing team delivering secure, reliable, and innovative cloud-based products. You will translate company strategy into an engineering vision and create conditions for teams to excel.

You will drive delivery excellence across software, platform, and cloud, champion DevOps and AI adoption, and partner with Product and executives to balance customer needs with operational resilience and growth.

Qualifications

Proven experience leading and scaling engineering teams within a product-led organisation.
Experience building high-performing engineering functions and developing engineering leaders.
Strong software engineering background with expertise in architecture, software delivery and engineering best practice.
Experience delivering complex customer-facing products, platforms or SaaS solutions.
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
Experience with modern software development practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, automation and Infrastructure as Code.
Knowledge of modern engineering technologies including cloud-native architectures, APIs, containers and platform engineering.
Experience defining and executing engineering strategy aligned to business objectives.
Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, security and operational resilience.
Experience partnering with Product, Design and executive stakeholders to drive outcomes.
A track record of leading technical transformation and organisational growth.
Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance innovation, delivery and business priorities.
Experience mentoring technical leaders and building a culture of engineering excellence.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and executive audiences.
Awareness of emerging technologies, including AI-enabled development and automation, and how they can create business value.

Responsibilities

Define and deliver the engineering strategy that supports business growth and product innovation.
Lead, inspire and grow a high-performing engineering organisation.
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.
Partner with Product and senior stakeholders to align technology delivery with business priorities.
Develop engineering leaders and create clear career pathways for teams.
Drive delivery excellence across software engineering, platform engineering and cloud technologies.
Own the technical roadmap and guide key architecture and technology decisions.
Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient and commercially effective.
Lead cloud, platform and engineering transformation initiatives.
Champion modern engineering practices, DevOps, automation and AI adoption.
Establish engineering standards, governance and technical best practice.
Drive operational excellence through observability, reliability engineering and continuous improvement.
Balance technology investment, technical debt and long-term platform evolution.
Support strategic customer opportunities with technical leadership and expertise.
Build strong relationships across Product, Security, Operations and Executive Leadership teams.