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A fantastic opportunity for a Head of Engineering to join a well established software organisation undergoing a major technical evolution. This is a senior strategic role leading engineering QA and cloud operations through a significant SaaS migration and AI enablement programme. You will drive organisational development technical excellence and delivery maturity while guiding the modernisation of a complex product suite used at scale across two main sectors.

Location: Hybrid with 2 days a week in the Milton Keynes office UK based

Salary: 85000 - 90000 per annum with excellent benefits and performance bonus

• Strong experience leading large engineering organisations delivering enterprise SaaS products or transforming legacy on premise or hosted products into SaaS models
• Proven leadership background managing engineering managers and multiple cross functional teams
• Strong ability to build develop and scale technical organisations of 30 people or more
• Deep technical grounding with hands on exposure to Azure AWS or GCP enterprise software architecture and modern engineering practices
• Experience of large scale platform migrations customer transitions and maintaining service continuity
• Background working with blended QA teams and embedding quality engineering practices
• Understanding that SRE principles Infrastructure as Code and cloud operations in product driven environments
• Excellent ability to drive collaboration across engineering product security professional services and customer facing teams
• Highly advantageous experience includes: regulated environments multi cloud operations AI or ML integration multi region deployments education sector systems API first platforms legacy to modern engineering uplift

• Lead and develop engineering managers and technical leads embedding a culture of quality innovation and customer focus
• Shape talent strategy build high performing teams and create clear progression frameworks across engineering
• Oversee outsourced QA partnership define quality metrics integrate QA within agile workflows and drive continuous improvement in automation and quality engineering
• Lead the evolution of cloud operations into a product aligned SRE function embedding Infrastructure as Code reliability principles and operational excellence
• Partner closely with product CTO and wider business teams to ensure delivery aligns with strategic priorities
• Collaborate with sales customer experience professional services and implementation teams to support customer transitionsEmbed security by design in collaboration with information security and compliance teams
• Provide architectural direction for SaaS migration cloud native evolution microservices API design and AI engineering methodologies
• Guide the introduction of AI capabilities across the product suite and ensure responsible AI practices governance and sector aligned compliance
• Drive platform modernisation customer migration tooling integration frameworks and data integrity for large scale transitions
• Maintain engineering standards covering code quality documentation testing CI / CD observability and security
• Establish metrics driven engineering practices and lead initiatives to reduce lead time improve deployment frequency and optimise reliability
• Ensure compliance with ISO27001 GDPR PCI DSS and sector specific requirements

• Deliver the engineering enablement plan across SaaS and AI objectives
• Oversee the technical and operational direction of the SaaS transformation
• Ensure smooth reliable customer migrations with no service disruption
• Strengthen organisational capability through structured hiring and development
• Embed AI engineering maturity infrastructure and best practice
• Drive improvements in deployment cadence reliability and operational excellence

• Leadership of a high impact engineering function during a major technology transformation
• The opportunity to shape the future of a complex product suite used at scale
• Collaborative people focused working culture with strong professional development pathways

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