Head of Product Engineering

Trinity College London; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Trinity College London seeks a Head of Product Engineering to lead a skilled team in delivering digital solutions that support the organization's goals. You will collaborate closely with various stakeholders, ensuring high-quality outcomes while fostering a collaborative environment. This permanent, full-time role promotes agile methodologies, requiring strong technical and leadership capabilities.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Private health insurance

Pension scheme

Regular social events

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Access to Trinity examinations

Continuous training and development

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software development roles, ideally within SaaS or web environments.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to manage both new and legacy systems effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of digital solutions aligning with organizational goals.
• Manage a team including Delivery Managers and QA specialists.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure project success.

Skills

Leadership

Agile Methodologies

Problem Solving

Communication

Planning

Education

Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant field

Job description

Contract:Permanent, full time
Location: London (hybrid-working)

About the role

As Head of Product Engineering, you will lead the delivery of digital solutions that support the organisation’s goals. You’ll manage a skilled team including Delivery Managers, a data engineer, and quality assurance specialists, ensuring they have the support needed to deliver high-quality outcomes. Working closely with Product Managers, business owners, internal IT, external partners, and key stakeholders, you will oversee all stages from design through to deployment and ongoing maintenance. Your leadership will align delivery with business priorities while continuously improving processes to add lasting value.

Planning & Delivery Management:

• Collaborate with Product Managers to turn road-maps into clear delivery plans.
• Manage delivery schedules and ensure progress is visible and on track.
• Lead testing processes by defining success criteria with product and business owners.
• Identify and proactively manage risks and dependencies affecting delivery.
• Use data-driven methods to improve delivery performance.
  
  

Team Support & Facilitation:

• Foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment across disciplines.
• Uphold agile and lean ways of working to support efficient, user-centred delivery.
• Remove blockers and ensure teams have the tools and support they need.
• Encourage continuous improvement and adoption of best practices like continuous integration/deployment.
  
  

Stakeholder & Communication Management:

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across product, business, and technology.
• Provide clear, regular updates on delivery status and risks.
• Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams to ensure effective communication.
• Manage third-party suppliers to meet performance and quality expectations.
  
  

Continuous Improvement:

• Champion agile and lean delivery best practices across the organisation.

About You

• Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent, with relevant professional development in engineering, computer science, or related technical fields.
• Extensive experience in software development, engineering, or related technical roles, preferably within SaaS or web-based application environments.
• Proven success delivering digital services in fast-paced, complex technical delivery environments.
• Familiarity with both new and legacy systems, maintaining complex product and service portfolios.
• Strong planning and organising skills with an ability to prioritise and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Exceptional relationship builder, able to influence at all organisational levels and challenge thinking respectfully to focus on key priorities.
• Highly analytical with strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, able to integrate multiple data sources to form clear insights.
• Proactive, results-driven, and comfortable leading in fast-moving, evolving environments with a sense of urgency.
• Clear and impactful communicator who can translate technical information for diverse audiences, including business stakeholders and less experienced team members.
  
  
  

Our benefits

Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation.

As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits including generous annual leave, private health insurance, pension scheme, regular social events, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan,free access to Trinity examinations and continuous training and development, plus more.

Our commitment

Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

We actively encourages applications from candidates of all abilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is accessible, supportive, and welcoming for individuals with different abilities. We will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro-diverse.

Trinity promotes and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), we select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge.

To learn more about our DEI commitment as an equal opportunities employer, please visit our Equality, diversity and inclusion page.

How to Apply

To apply, please follow the Apply for This Job link on this page and you will be directed to the Trinity College London application page. We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of interest so please do not delay if interested.

Trinity College London does not hold a job visa sponsorship licence and so is not in a position to sponsor visas in the UK.

All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Upon successful appointment into the role, you will be required to complete our vetting procedures as with all Trinity College London employees. This is carried out by a 3rd party supplier and our standard background checks consist of Right to Work in the UK, Identity Check, Employment History check, Financial Probity Check, Highest Academic Qualifications Check and a basic DBS check.

Trinity College London will collect and use your personal information for our recruitment process in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice. Trinity College London will hold candidate data on file for no more than six months from application submission. If you want your information to be removed earlier, please contact us directly. If we want to hold your information beyond the six months, we will contact you to get your consent.

Our data protection policy can be viewed in full here.