Head of Sotfware Engineering

Head of Engineering

London Permanent Hybrid

We're partnering with a large, complex, and purpose-driven organisation undergoing a major technology and engineering transformation, and are looking to appoint an outstanding Head of Engineering to lead a newly formed multidisciplinary function.

This is a rare opportunity to shape and build a modern engineering capability from the ground up within an environment that combines real scale, complexity, and societal impact.

Reporting into senior technology leadership, the Head of Engineering will lead a broad engineering function spanning:

• Software Engineering
• Integration Engineering
• Data Engineering
• Platform Engineering

You'll be responsible for setting the engineering direction, standards, and operating model across the function, ensuring engineering quality, scalability, resilience, and long-term technical health.

This role combines strategic leadership with deep technical credibility. You'll remain close to architecture, engineering decisions, and platform strategy while leading managers and senior engineers across multiple teams.

The environment is heavily focused on modern cloud-native engineering, with significant investment across:

• Microsoft Azure
• Dev Ops and CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code
• Event-driven architecture
• Platform engineering
• Automation and AI-enabled services

You'll also play a key role in shaping engineering culture, improving operational maturity and helping establish best-in-class engineering practices across a large-scale enterprise environment.

We're looking for a senior engineering leader who has experience operating within large, complex organisations where technology underpins critical operational services.

You'll likely bring:

• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering functions
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices and cloud-native environments
• Experience shaping engineering strategy, standards and governance
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across technical and non-technical environments
• Experience balancing engineering quality, delivery, scalability and cost
• A collaborative leadership style with strong people leadership capability

Experience with in highly regulated or complex environments such as public sector, education, healthcare, financial services or similarly scaled organisations would be highly beneficial.

This is an opportunity to genuinely shape the future of engineering within an organisation investing heavily in modern platforms, automation and digital capability.

• Significant strategic influence
• Large-scale transformation work
• Modern cloud and platform engineering environment
• Strong investment in technology
• Excellent work-life balance and benefits
• Hybrid working
• Long-term career opportunity