Director of Engineering

Corecom Consulting; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 150.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Corecom Consulting is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead a significant engineering function and guide its next phase of growth. The role requires combining technical credibility with commercial awareness and strong organizational leadership to drive engineering transformation at scale.

You will lead about 15 engineers through an established management structure, translate platform strategy into delivery plans, and oversee improvements in CI/CD, tooling and platform capabilities

Qualifikationen

• Proven Director/Head of Engineering experience.
• Leadership spanning software, platform, and infrastructure.
• Experience with large-scale, customer-facing SaaS platforms.

Aufgaben

• Lead and develop engineering managers across software, platform, and infrastructure.
• Translate platform strategy into delivery plans to improve performance, accountability and predictability.
• Drive improvements in developer experience, tooling, CI/CD and platform capabilities.
• Oversee AWS infrastructure investments balancing technical needs with business goals.
• Collaborate with senior product and engineering stakeholders to align platform with growth.
• Provide architectural direction and technical leadership across a high-traffic SaaS environment.

Kenntnisse

Director/Head of Engineering

Leadership across software & infra

AWS cloud expertise

Stakeholder influence

Commercial awareness

Managing multiple engineering teams

Jobbeschreibung

Director of Platform Engineering | £150,000–£160,000 | Fully Remote (UK)

I'm working with a high-growth, established SaaS organisation looking to appoint a Director of Platform Engineering to lead a significant engineering function and play a key role in its next phase of growth.

This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who combines strong technical credibility with commercial awareness, organisational leadership and a track record of delivering engineering transformation at scale.

The Opportunity

Working closely with the VP of Platform, you'll take responsibility for the day-to-day leadership of a platform engineering function, overseeing approximately 15 engineers through an established management structure.

Your focus will include:

• Leading and developing engineering managers across software engineering, platform engineering and infrastructure.
• Translating platform strategy into clear delivery plans, improving engineering performance, accountability and predictability.
• Driving improvements in developer experience, internal tooling, CI/CD and platform capabilities.
• Overseeing significant AWS infrastructure investment, balancing technical priorities with commercial objectives.
• Working closely with senior product and engineering stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities support business growth.
• Providing architectural direction and technical leadership across a complex, high-traffic SaaS environment.

What We're Looking For

• Proven Director/Head of Engineering experience, leading multiple engineering teams and managers.
• Leadership experience spanning both software engineering and infrastructure/platform engineering.
• Experience operating large-scale, customer-facing SaaS platforms with millions of users and significant transaction volumes.
• Strong AWS expertise, including ownership of substantial cloud infrastructure budgets.
• Experience improving engineering delivery, organisational structures and developer productivity.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

The Package

Fully remote within the UK

Significant leadership autonomy and influence

This isn't simply a technical leadership position. It's an opportunity to shape how a large-scale engineering organisation operates, delivers and evolves.