Senior Engineering Leader | Hybrid, Learning Budget, Impact

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mindful Me Days

Flexible Working

AUS Office access

Wellness/Assistance Programs

Learning & development budget

LinkedIn Learning

Social & Family events

Parental leave

Job summary

Global Sports Jobs Limited seeks a senior people and technical leader within the Technology function. The role combines people leadership with engineering oversight, developing engineers and guiding client engagements with strong technical guidance.

It spans capability development, governance and hands-on contribution to maintain high standards. You will coach engineers, guide architectural decisions, and champion modern practices including automation and AI-enabled working while collaborating

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including senior or technical leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading, coaching and developing engineers.
• Strong track record of building effective, high-performing engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of modern software engineering, cloud platforms, distributed systems and scalable architectural patterns.
• Experience designing, reviewing and guiding complex technical solutions.
• Experience operating across multiple teams, products or client engagements.
• Ability to balance people leadership, technical leadership and delivery priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical, commercial and non-technical audiences.
• Strong contemporary engineering and architectural capability.
• Ability to lead through influence, clarity and trust rather than becoming the technical bottleneck.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct people leadership for engineers, including 1:1s, performance and development conversations, feedback, and progression opportunities.
• Support recruitment, onboarding and retention of engineering talent.
• Coach engineers across technical and leadership development, promoting autonomy and judgement.
• Provide strong technical leadership across teams, reinforcing architecture and engineering standards.
• Participate in solution design, architecture discussions and major engineering decisions.
• Identify risks, quality concerns, and capability gaps early and address them.
• Champion modern engineering practices, automation and AI-enabled ways of working.
• Maintain proximity to client and product delivery to align priorities and technical direction.
• Represent the organisation credibly in technical client conversations.

Skills

People leadership

Engineering leadership

Coaching

Performance management

Architectural capability

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Technical oversight

Solution design

Stakeholder communication

AI-enabled engineering

Job description

Global Sports Jobs Limited seeks a senior people and technical leader within the Technology function. The role combines people leadership with engineering oversight, developing engineers and guiding client engagements with strong technical guidance.

It spans capability development, governance and hands-on contribution to maintain high standards. You will coach engineers, guide architectural decisions, and champion modern practices including automation and AI-enabled working while collaborating