Head of Engineering

Globant; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Globant is seeking a Head of Engineering in London to lead and coach senior engineers and technical leaders, driving architectural strategy and cross-team alignment. You will shape multi-year platform roadmaps, govern standards, and own critical technical decisions to deliver business value in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires onsite presence in London, collaboration with product and delivery leadership, and a track record of managing complex engineering programs across tribes and

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading, coaching and developing senior engineers and technical leaders to build organizational capability.
• Ability to act as a trusted technical advisor to product, delivery and programme leadership.
• Experience aligning architecture and standards across multiple enterprise groups.
• Track record of defining multi-year platform roadmaps and governance across teams.
• Experience establishing ownership for shared components and managing cross-team dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor senior engineers and technical leaders to grow organizational capability.
• Define and govern platform target-state architectures and roadmaps.
• Align architecture standards across Principal, Solution and Enterprise Architects.
• Establish ownership for shared components and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Govern technical debt, remediation and renewal programs across the platform.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Succession planning

Technical advisory

Architectural governance

Job description

At Globant, we are working to make the world a better place, one step at a time. We enhance business development and enterprise solutions to prepare them for a digital future. With a diverse and talented team present in more than 30 countries, we are strategic partners to leading global companies in their business process transformation.

We seek a Head of Engineering, who shares our passion for innovation and change. This role is critical to helping our business partners evolve and adapt to consumers' personalized expectations in this new technological era.

What will help you succeed:

• Proven experience leading, coaching, and developing senior engineers and technical leaders (e.g., Tribe Technical Leads) to build organizational capability and successor pipelines.
• Strong ability to act as a trusted technical advisor to product, delivery, and programme leadership, integrating technical strategy with business outcomes.
• Demonstrated skill in building relationships and aligning architecture/standards across diverse cross-enterprise groups, such as Principal Architects, Solution Architects, and Enterprise Architects.
• Track record of defining, maintaining, and governing multi-year platform target-state architectures and roadmaps across multi-team or multi-tribe organizations.
• Experience resolving cross-team technical dependencies, establishing ownership for shared components, and managing systemic platform trade-offs.
• Proven ability to establish and maintain a platform-wide technical debt register, securing dedicated capacity for ongoing platform remediation and technical renewal.
• Hands‑on experience defining, versioning, and enforcing organizational engineering standards, code health expectations, and quality gates.
• Experience leading or running formal technical governance processes, including preparing review materials and documenting Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Experience defining and monitoring Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for system health, latency, error rates, and reliability regressions.
• Proven track record of monitoring, governing, and optimizing infrastructure consumption costs relative to system throughput and value delivered.

This job is to be filled in London, UK . We require this person to be onsite 5 days a week, with 2 of those days at client site.

Create with us digital products that people love. We will bring businesses and consumers together through AI technology and creativity, driving digital transformation to impact the world positively.

We may use AI and machine learning technologies in our recruitment process.

Globant is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Globant is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.