Engineering Director

Rldatix; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Group accident insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Loyalty Awards for long-service

Job summary

RLDatix, a London-based healthcare tech company, seeks an Engineering Director to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams. You will define technical strategy, align with Product and Platform, and drive reliable, scalable software for regulated healthcare environments.

You will mentor senior engineers, manage budgets, and implement robust observability and on-call practices to ensure delivery excellence and compliance across multiple domains.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Proven ability to establish scalable delivery pipelines
• Experience with regulated environments, security, governance and compliance
• Strong communication and stakeholder management

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional engineering teams to deliver integrated, scalable solutions aligned with goals
• Define technical strategy across domains with Product, Design and Platform
• Oversee on-time delivery with robust CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Mentor engineers to strengthen leadership and ownership
• Manage budgets and resources with governance adherence
• Implement monitoring, logging, on-call and incident management for reliability

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Delivery excellence

Cloud & security awareness

Observability & CI/CD

Job description

RLDatix is on a mission to transform care delivery worldwide, ensuring every patient receives the safest, highest-quality care. Through our innovative Healthcare Operations Platform, we're connecting data to unlock trusted insights that enable improved decision-making and help deliver safer healthcare for all.

Job Description

RLDatix (RLD) is on a mission to help raise the standard of care…everywhere. Trusted by over 10,000 healthcare organisations around the world, our solutions help improve health and care. Our applications ensure that patients receive the best and safest care while supporting the providers who deliver it.

Joining TeamRLD means being part of a global effort of over 2,000 team members in making a difference in healthcare…every day.
We're searching for a London-based Engineering Director to join our Engineering team, so that we can deliver integrated, scalable and reliable solutions for healthcare organisations. The Engineering Director will lead and coordinate cross-functional engineering teams to align technical execution with our strategic business goals, driving delivery excellence, system reliability and innovation across multiple technical domains.

How You'll Spend Your Time

• Leading and coordinating cross-functional engineering teams to deliver integrated, scalable solutions aligned with strategic business goals
• Defining and communicating technical strategy across engineering domains, partnering with Product, Design and Platform to align priorities with customer and business outcomes
• Overseeing high-quality, timely project delivery by establishing robust delivery standards, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing to support reliable software releases
• Mentoring and developing engineering talent, coaching technical leads and senior engineers to strengthen leadership capability, accountability and technical ownership
• Managing operational budgets and resources, establishing operational objectives and departmental policies while ensuring adherence to governance protocols
• Implementing comprehensive monitoring, logging and alerting, along with effective on-call and incident-management practices, to ensure system reliability and observability in a regulated healthcare environment

What Kind of Things We're Most Interested in You Having

• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions across software, infrastructure, data and security domains
• Proven success establishing and optimising engineering processes, including observability, monitoring and automated delivery pipelines to support high-quality, reliable software releases
• In-depth knowledge on how to manage technical strategy, resource allocation and operational budgets within a dynamic R&D environment, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Advanced proficiency in diagnosing and resolving complex technical challenges, including performance bottlenecks and distributed system issues, across diverse platforms
• Experience operating in a regulated environment, with practical understanding of security, governance, risk and compliance considerations, alongside modern development frameworks, cloud engineering and the full SDLC
• A knack for working collaboratively across cross-functional teams, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to translate complex technical concepts into actionable plans

By enabling flexibility in how we work and prioritising employee wellness, we empower our team to do and be their best. Key benefits include private health and group accident insurance, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for confidential support, and Loyalty Awards for long-service employees.

RLDatix is an equal opportunity employer, and our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, age, gender, national origin, disability, handicap, marital status or any other status or condition protected by law.

As part of RLDatix's commitment to the inclusion of all qualified individuals, we ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation in the job application and interview process. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in either step, please don't hesitate to send a note to [e-mail].

Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including location, relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, licensure or certifications obtained. Market and organisational factors are also taken into consideration.