Head of Engineering

Wyatt Partners; City Of London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting business is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead a talented team. This role involves setting processes and managing client relationships, with heavy involvement in both pre and post-sales activities. The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background, be hands-on with coding, and possess excellent communication skills to engage with C-level stakeholders. This is an excellent opportunity for career progression towards a CTO role.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous equity component

Qualifications

• Experience in both front and back end applications.
• Proven leadership in engineering environments.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to C-level stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a talented engineering team of 8.
• Set processes and standards for the engineering team.
• Manage client relationships from an engineering perspective.

Skills

Experienced software engineering background

Hands-on with either Python, R, Scala, C++, Java

Experience leading/mentoring junior engineers

Strong commercial communication skills

Knowledge in Cloud & Machine Learning

Job description

Salary: Extremely competitive + Generous Equity component

A leading global consulting business in Process Automation are looking for a Head of Engineering to be a leading player in the Services side of their business.

The company are seen as a leading business in the real commercial application of Artificial Intelligence in Companies, having had models productionised in over 300 companies globally.

The Head of Engineering will lead a talented Engineering team of 8 people on the services side of the company. You’ll be responsible for setting processes & standards for the team and leading client relationships from an Engineering perspective being heavily involved in both Pre & Post sales.

The team you’d lead are made up of PhD level Engineers who most work in Python to deploy Machine Learning Models. (They also work with Scala & react.js) This team will double over next 12 months.

• Mid term career progression could see you take on a wider team of Data Scientist as well,
• Longer term it would be to step into the CTO role within the Services business which is a role that will become available

Suitable Candidates:

• Experienced software engineering background – experience both front and back end applications. Should still be a hands on Coder
• Fairly agnostic to Languages but ideally will have experience with either Python, R, Scala, C++, Java etc
• Experience at leading / mentoring a team of more Junior Engineers
• Strong commercial communication skills who can lead relationships with commercial stakeholders up to C-Level, distilling the complex into simple business language
• Knowledge to provide thought leadership in the Cloud & Machine Learning space

Although this will be still a fairly heavy hands on element to this role initially, as the team grows and responsibility of the incumbent grows this element will become less.