Director of Product Engineering

Hometrack Data Systems Limited; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 150 000 - 210 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Hometrack is seeking an accomplished Director of Product Engineering to lead our mission-critical product portfolio powering property decision making in the UK financial services industry. The role combines strategic technology leadership with delivery oversight, balancing speed, risk, and long-term value.

This position will guide architectural direction and collaborate with product peers and wider stakeholders to shape the long‑term roadmap, ensuring robust foundations and scalable capabilities

Qualificações

• Senior technology leadership experience in financial services preferred.
• Proven ability to evolve complex platforms in high-availability settings.
• Collaborates with Product leadership to shape long-term strategy.
• Strong background in software engineering (.Net/AWS/Azure).

Responsabilidades

• Own the technology strategy aligning with our platform goals.
• Define and evolve a clear roadmap for near-term and long-term delivery.
• Provide domain leadership and technical challenge.
• Oversee delivery of product engineering teams.
• Ensure resilience, scalability, security, and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with Product peers and stakeholders to shape roadmap.
• Lead and develop engineers and engineering managers.
• Foster ownership, learning, and delivery culture.

Conhecimentos

Tech leadership

Platform ownership

Product collaboration

C#/.NET

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Ferramentas

AWS

Azure

Architecture patterns

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Hometrack is seeking an accomplished Director of Product Engineering, to lead our efforts in building innovative mission critical products to power property decision making in the UK financial services industry. We offer a competitive salary, fantastic benefits, and flexible, hybrid working.

Hometrack’s market-leading property data sets, valuation models, and risk insights are delivered via our suite of B2B SaaS applications for mortgage lenders, brokers, and more. We’ve led the market for over twenty years!

Our services are mission-critical to the UK’s top banks, automating their mortgage offers. They’re used daily by home builders, mortgage brokers, local councils, and more to make informed property purchasing decisions. We have an exciting strategy to serve an even wider section of the market, with innovative products and services.

The Director of Product Engineering will provide senior technology leadership for Hometrack’s key product lines, owning the technical strategy, delivery oversight, and evolution, providing a highly utilised and relied upon set of capabilities for clients.

This role will lead an established set of teams as they evolve and support our existing capabilities to scale and meet developing client needs. The Director of Product Engineering will collaborate closely with Product peers and wider business stakeholders to shape the long‑term roadmap, ensure robust technical foundations, and guide our continued growth.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Own the technology strategy ensuring alignment with our wider platform and technology strategy.

• Partner with key stakeholders in product, commercial and delivery to define and evolve a clear, credible roadmap covering near‑term delivery and longer‑term technical direction.

• Provide domain leadership and technical challenge

Delivery & Execution

• Provide senior oversight of existing product engineering teams, ensuring delivery remains on track as the products evolve and new products are introduced.

• Ensure strong engineering fundamentals, including resilience, scalability, security, and operational readiness, appropriate for an institution supporting banks and other major lenders.

• Support the evolution of a highly utilised set of capabilities as they scale to meet future client needs.

Technology & Architecture

• Guide architectural decisions in partnership with technical peers (Principal/Staff Engineers).

• Act as a key contributor in setting our technology direction

People & Leadership

• Lead and develop engineers and engineering managers (software and data).

• Set clear expectations, provide coaching, and build a culture of ownership, learning, and delivery.

What We’re Looking For

Essential Experience

• Senior technology leadership experience (Head of/Director or equivalent) preferably within or adjacent to financial services.

• Demonstrable experience owning and evolving complex platforms, preferably in a high availability environment.

• Proven ability to partner effectively with Product leadership to shape and deliver long‑term strategy.
• Strong fundamental background in software engineering (.Net/AWS/Azure)

Beneficial Experience

• Experience of evolving team working practices towards increasingly agentic SDLCs
• Experience managing and leading data engineering teams

Leadership & Behaviours

• Pragmatic and outcome‑focused, with sound judgement to balance speed, risk, and long‑term value.

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and guiding teams through an evolving domain.

• Clear communicator who can explain complex concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Role‑model for Hometrack’s Behaviours and expectations around ownership, delivery, and collaboration.