Engineering Leader Digital+

Philips Water Solutions; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health technology company is seeking an Engineering Leader to shape digital experiences across a pregnancy app. You'll lead a distributed engineering organization and collaborate with product and design teams to enhance delivery and quality. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in engineering management, strong mobile development knowledge, and excellent communication skills. This position requires full-time presence in the office at least 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in leading engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of mobile development principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead and empower distributed engineering organization.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Design teams.
• Evaluate and evolve engineering processes.

Skills

Mobile development principles

CI/CD

Operational excellence

AI-enabled engineering

Stakeholder management

Leadership skills

Tools

Jira

GitHub

Firebase

Job description

Job Title

Engineering Leader Digital+

Job Description

We’re looking for an Engineering Leader to shape how we design, build, and deliver digital experiences across Pregnancy+, the world’s most trusted pregnancy app. You’ll report directly to the Business Leader for Worry-Free Parenting, playing a pivotal role in aligning engineering, product, and design functions to accelerate value delivery for millions of users worldwide. You’ll lead a distributed engineering organisation, primarily based in India, while working closely with leadership and product teams in Europe. Your focus will be on creating the right environment for high-quality, high-velocity development, defining how we operate today, envisioning how we need to operate tomorrow, and driving that transformation through process, tooling, and measurement. You’ll champion AI-enabled engineering, ensuring we leverage modern technologies to dramatically increase efficiency and consistency across releases.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and empower a distributed engineering organisation
• Lead an engineering organisation primarily based in India, ensuring delivery excellence and strong alignment with leadership in Europe.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Management and Design teams to maintain synergy across disciplines, reducing time-to-market and increasing value-to-market.
• Evaluate and evolve engineering processes, tools, and practices to improve speed, quality, and scalability.
• Establish and monitor clear KPIs and delivery metrics that measure performance, predictability, and quality.
• Drive organisational change through influence and structure, embedding best practices and accountability across teams.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to foster engagement, alignment, and consistent delivery outcomes.
• Identify and implement modern tools and frameworks that enhance delivery pipelines, testing, and release management.
• Champion the integration of AI and automation to optimise workflows and increase developer productivity.
• Foster a culture of transparency, ownership, and continuous improvement across the engineering organisation.

What We’re Looking For

• At least 5 years of experience managing or leading engineering teams, ideally within consumer digital or mobile products.
• Strong understanding of mobile development principles, architecture, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
• Proven track record of leading engineering transformation and improving organisational efficiency.
• Experience managing distributed or remote teams, ideally across time zones.
• Demonstrated ability to work within a product-led organisation, collaborating closely with Product and Design to deliver user value.
• Ability to define and monitor KPIs that connect engineering outcomes to business results.
• Enthusiasm for AI-enabled engineering, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, GitHub, Firebase, and modern mobile CI/CD frameworks.

How We Work Together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

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About Philips

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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.