Head of Engineering

Betfred; Manchester; Presencial; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

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

Descripción de la vacante

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.

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Scaling teams

Software engineering

Quality assurance

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Technical writing

Change control

Problem solving

Herramientas

MySQL

MariaDB

Oracle

SQL Server

Redis

MongoDB

Descripción del empleo

About Us

Our mission is to dominate the betting and gaming industry on a global scale and we need the very best Tech talent to help us achieve this.

With our proprietary platform powering everything we do, it's an exciting time to join us. We're pioneering new products and driving more advanced, creative technologies. The result? Unrivalled experiences for millions of customers worldwide.

Betfred's Technology department is driven by innovation, and you'll be at the heart of unlocking our platform's potential. So, if you want to help shape the future of betting and gaming, it's time to join us.

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead the engineering function for one of our workstreams, which covers a specific area of our technology landscape. Helping us rapidly grow the business and build market share in the UK and emerging new territories. You will be responsible for all Software Engineering, Architecture and Quality Assurance colleagues and processes in that workstream.

Job Duties

• Lead the execution of engineering best practices within one of Betfred’s workstreams
• To operate at scale, you should ensure we have the right capabilities and skills amongst engineers to support and maintain healthy environments, enabling frequent release cadences through automation
• Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure teams are correctly sized, resourced, and that process is established, measured, and continuously improved. Alongside HR, maintain a career/skills framework that provides clear career paths and required skills to grow our people
• Provide process guidance to the product teams, ensure we are maximising throughput, whilst reducing defects between development stages, and reducing the number of defects leaks into production
• Support the DevOps culture ways of working, ensure teams have the necessary skills and capabilities to build, release and support the workstream’s software
• Line manage the Engineering Managers in your workstream
• Work closely with support and other technology functions, to ensure we have an effective 3rd line support who are proactively keeping the production systems healthy, identifying and resolving potential problem areas before they become problems
• Support Betfred objectives and help define the goals and strategies that all engineering teams should work towards. Working closely with your fellow Heads of Engineering’s and with other functions within Betfred to define measures and improvements to our engineering capabilities
• Report back to senior management on engineering personnel, process improvements, impediments
• Participate and encourage learning activities, promoting the learning culture from within, and identifying knowledge gaps that need to be plugged through internal or external training
• Work closely with other technology functions, to ensure we have an effective 3rd line support who are proactively keeping the production systems healthy, identifying and resolving potential problem areas before they become problems.
• To champion technical requirements within your workstream necessary to implement Betfred’s Technology Strategy
• To share learnings and achievements of your workstream with other streams to level up the organisation as a whole

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• 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
• Worked in and have a good understanding of Continuous Integration and Deployments.
• You will have worked on complex systems, in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent line management skills, including managing managers, provide you with the ability to inspire and drive your team of direct reports.
• An agile mindset and a willingness to optimise your workstream for flow of change
• Great communication skills both in the form of public speaking and technical writing
• Metrics-driven approach for effective value delivery
• should be replaced and own the implementation and roll out process.
• You should have experience in running database systems such as MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, as well as No SQL database solutions such as Redis or MongoDB.
• You must possess excellent problem-solving skills, and be proficient using operational tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, Splunk, ELK or Prometheus.
• You should have worked in an environment that adheres to strict change control processes, as well supporting incident, and problem management processes.
• You should be familiar with PCI-DSS and ISO-27001 standards.

What is in it for me?

We offer a variety of competitive benefits, some of which vary depending on the role you’re recruited to. Some of what you can expect in this role includes:

• A competitive rate of pay and pension contribution ( £90,000-£120,000)
• Generous discretionary bonus schemes, incentives and competitions
• An annual leave entitlement that increases with length of service
• Access to an online GP 24/7, 365 days a year for you and your immediate family.
• Employee wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
• Long Service Recognition
• Access to a pay day savings scheme, financial coach and up to 40% of your earned wage ahead of payday, through Wagestream.

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