Director of Engineering

External Description

Director of Engineering

Role Context & Purpose

Reporting to a Senior Director, the Director of Engineering (DoE) provides the delivery capability to allow the ambitions and commitments of the Engineer Group Strategy to be achieved. In certain circumstances, the DoE is responsible for delivering a specific mission with a clearly defined outcome. When that outcome is successfully achieved, the DoE will then transition to the next business priority.

Partnering principally with LMIT Senior Directors, and in some cases the CIO and other Directors of Engineering within the LIT account, the DOE is responsible for the overall Account Strategy which balances customer expectations with LIT aspirations.

The DoE leads the Engineering Group leadership team, ensuring that subgroup plans align with the overall Engineering Group Strategy. They are primarily responsible for ensuring that the Unit plans can be executed in the most efficient and effective manner using a data‑centric approach, delivering digital offerings that transform the enterprise. They will ensure not only timely delivery against commitments but will optimize for quality and cost through continually evolving and challenging the delivery strategy and practices within their assigned units.

Delivery capacity will be managed in line with customer needs and expectations, and utilization will be proactively managed and monitored.

In partnership with the leadership team they will ensure that skills and capabilities evolve rapidly in line with anticipated account needs. The DoE is responsible for driving Talent Management activities throughout the account, providing insight to account high potential and high performing senior talent, identifying and mitigating risks in succession and talent pipelines and actively providing development opportunities for successors to business‑critical roles.

In conjunction with the Senior Leadership and executive teams, develop and influence the Engineering Group Strategy to set direction, create achievable delivery commitments, ensuring it delivers on both the Engineering Group’s and LIT’s ambitions.

• Accountable for ensuring delivery commitments are met effectively and efficiently whenmeasured against best in class.
• Drive delivery excellence mindset across the Engineering Group and optimise for delivery outcomes.
• Inspire and facilitate the LIT leadership community to create a world class delivery capability forscaled agile engagements and beyond e.g.SAFe.
• Optimize outcomes for LM Business by Identifying opportunities for reuse focusing on higher levelcapabilities (e.g. business capability reuse).
• Manage risks across their area of responsibility, supporting LIT leaders in taking reasonablerisks.
• Foster an accountable, outcome and results oriented working environment across aligned subgroups,monitoring the effectiveness of Engineering Group operating efficiency.
• In partnership with Leadership ensure that the “common purpose” of units is regularly reviewed and take action to ensure that the unit operating models and structureremainsdynamicand effective.
• Develop and refine a “delivery playbook” thatoptimizeshow delivery is performed across the DoEarea of responsibility, focusing on technical and business risk management, predictability, quality and efficiency of operation.
• Provide technical capabilities on time that are measured against pre-determined quality standards, accountplansand budgets.

• Support leaders to create the environment where units can proactively refresh their business portfolio and position LIT as a leading light in LMs digital transformation.
• Drive business through existing customers and ensure LIT is positioned to add maximum value, developing a proactive action plan that addresses customers’ requirements now and in future ina way thatleveragesand elevates LIT’s unique value proposition.
• Partner with different areas of Liberty IT and LMIT to identify and support the introduction and development of emergent businesscapabilities and optimize for reuse / leveraging these capabilities across the LIT org.
• Support adjacent…