Engineering Leader: Scale & Delivery

Betfred Group Holdings Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary £90,000–£120,000

Pension contribution

Annual leave entitlement

Online GP 24/7

Employee Assistance Programme

Maternity & Paternity Pay

Long Service Recognition

Wagestream access

Job summary

Betfred Group Holdings Limited is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead software engineering, architecture and QA within a dedicated workstream. You will scale teams, drive best practices, and ensure robust release processes across the platform in a high-growth betting and gaming environment.

You will partner with senior leadership to shape strategy, manage managers, and foster a culture of continuous improvement, automation and strong incident management.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to scale engineering teams in a high-growth business.
• An up to date understanding of modern Software Engineering.
• Strong focus on Quality Assurance best practices across teams.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployments.
• Experience with complex systems in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent line management skills including managing managers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of engineering best practices within one of Betfred’s workstreams.
• Ensure teams maintain healthy environments with frequent releases through automation.
• Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure teams are resourced appropriately and career paths are clear.
• Provide guidance to product teams to maximise throughput and reduce defects.
• Support DevOps culture and ensure the workstream’s software is built, released and supported.
• Line manage Engineering Managers in the workstream.
• Collaborate with support and other technology functions to maintain 3rd line health of production systems.
• Help define goals and measures for engineering improvements across streams.
• Report back to senior management on personnel and process improvements.
• Promote learning activities and identify knowledge gaps for training.
• Champion technical requirements to implement Betfred’s Technology Strategy.

Skills

Scaling teams

Software engineering

Quality assurance

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Technical writing

Change control

Problem solving

Tools

MySQL

MariaDB

Oracle

SQL Server

Redis

MongoDB

Job description

Betfred Group Holdings Limited is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead software engineering, architecture and QA within a dedicated workstream. You will scale teams, drive best practices, and ensure robust release processes across the platform in a high-growth betting and gaming environment.

You will partner with senior leadership to shape strategy, manage managers, and foster a culture of continuous improvement, automation and strong incident management.