Platform Engineering Lead – Customer-Facing Digital

McLaren Racing; Old Woking; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Structured career development

25 days holiday

Enhanced pension

Discretionary annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Sabbatical option

Lifestyle discounts

Parental leave

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

McLaren Racing is seeking a Head of Software Engineering to lead the Customer Experience Solutions engineering function, owning build, release and operational quality for McLaren's client-facing digital platforms. The role holds technical accountability for all software delivered by McLaren, partners or contractors, ensuring security by design and long-term operability.

You will drive end-to-end delivery, set engineering standards across multiple teams and partners, and establish a squad-based

Qualifications

• Substantial experience leading software engineering functions delivering customer-facing platforms.
• Experience holding delivery partners to a technical standard and signing off delivery.
• Depth in modern engineering practice including CI/CD, automated testing and release management.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end engineering delivery across the customer-facing platform estate.
• Act as technical authority for partner and supplier work; define acceptance criteria and sign-off before release.
• Set and enforce engineering standards across all contributors to ensure consistency.
• Own secure engineering practices within the software development lifecycle.
• Budget responsibility for the engineering element of the digital delivery program.
• Establish and run a squad-based delivery model with technical leads.
• Develop internal senior and staff tech lead capability.
• Reduce external dependency by building internal capabilities.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Product Management and Programme Delivery.
• Coordinate QA, DevOps, environments and release tooling with Core Technology.
• Involve in supplier selection and commercial reviews based on outcomes and quality.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Partner management

CI/CD & testing

Secure development

Agile squads

Insourcing from outsourcing

Stakeholder communication

Job description

McLaren Racing is seeking a Head of Software Engineering to lead the Customer Experience Solutions engineering function, owning build, release and operational quality for McLaren's client-facing digital platforms. The role holds technical accountability for all software delivered by McLaren, partners or contractors, ensuring security by design and long-term operability.

You will drive end-to-end delivery, set engineering standards across multiple teams and partners, and establish a squad-based