Engineering Operations Leader: Quality & Automation

Standard Life plc; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Excellent pension

12x salary life assurance

Career breaks

Job summary

Standard Life plc is seeking a Head of Engineering Operations to lead the capability underpinning quality, delivery assurance, environments, release discipline and operational resilience across the Digital & Information Office.

This senior role drives modernisation of engineering teams, automation, AI-enabled software delivery and trusted relationships in a regulated environment to ensure delivery with pace, quality and control.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering operations, quality engineering, release management, environments, software delivery governance or a related technology capability in a complex organisation.
• Ability to balance pace with control by embedding standards, quality gates, engineering risk management, assurance and operational resilience.
• Practical knowledge of DevSecOps, test automation, deployment automation, engineering metrics, developer tooling and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Engineering Operations capability across quality engineering, environments, release readiness, engineering assurance, operational controls, engineering risk and continuous improvement.
• Lead engineering risk management, ensuring clear ownership of controls, regular attestation, evidence quality and effective alignment with both central Enterprise Technology and Pensions & Savings risk and governance frameworks.
• Lead the shift towards greater automation, including automated standards compliance, test automation, DevSecOps practices, infrastructure as code, developer tooling, deployment discipline and AI-enabled software delivery.
• Provide leadership for quality assurance, environment management and release governance, ensuring delivery teams can evidence standards compliance and deliver change safely, predictably and with appropriate control.
• Oversee engineering standards across resource partners and outsource providers, applying consistent outcome monitoring, quality indicators, delivery metrics and control expectations.
• Use engineering metrics, risk insights, control reporting and operational data to drive better decision-making, stronger accountability and continuous improvement across the function.

Skills

Engineering operations leadership

Quality engineering

DevSecOps

Automation

Stakeholder management

Job description

Standard Life plc is seeking a Head of Engineering Operations to lead the capability underpinning quality, delivery assurance, environments, release discipline and operational resilience across the Digital & Information Office.

This senior role drives modernisation of engineering teams, automation, AI-enabled software delivery and trusted relationships in a regulated environment to ensure delivery with pace, quality and control.