Director of Engineering

• To ensure Engineering teams deliver secure digital products.
• To manage a centre for AI excellence for practical and ethical values.

Marie Curie plays a leading role in shaping the end of life system across the UK; driving research, influencing public policy, campaigning for change, and fighting for better services - so everyone has access to the end of life care and support they need.

Over the next five years and beyond, our mission is to close the gap in end-of-life care. Between now and 2028, we'll design and deliver services providing the best possible care and support to people living with any terminal illness, and those close to them.

Everyone will be affected by dying, death and bereavement. That can't be changed, but the end-of-life experience can.

Everyone deserves the best possible care and support, reflecting what's most important to them.

The Director of Engineering is a senior technology leader responsible for building, running, and continuously improving the organisation's digital and data engineering capability.

Reporting to the CTO, the role ensures that engineering teams deliver reliable, scalable, and secure digital products that support the charity's mission, increase supporter engagement, and improve internal productivity.

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, and close working relationships with all members of the executive team.

• Data and Insights engineering.
• Web and digital channel product engineering.
• CRM and Microsoft Dynamics development.
• An AI Centre of Excellence (AI CoE) focused on practical, ethical value.
• Engineering standards, platforms, and ways of working.
• The technical architecture of the organisation.

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, and close working relationships with all members of the executive team.

• Direct influence and close working with Senior leaders across the organisation.
• Partnering with the Head of Technology Product Management and product leaders across the organisation to ensure we deliver an Agile, continuous improvement culture based on clearly defined and managed products.
• Direct control of the engineering function.
• Providing advice and information to Executives and Trustees regarding the architecture and technology strategy of the Organisation.
• Strong relationship with the product owners across the organisation.
• Influence a wide range of managers throughout the Organisation.

Working as a core member of the T&T leadership team, provide leadership to the engineering function to be considered 'Best in Class within the Industry. The Director of Engineering is responsible for ensuring that our application stack and architecture is as simple and efficient as possible, whilst supporting the charity strategy.

• Own the development and implementation of industry-leading engineering standards across the function.
• Support the ongoing evolution and delivery of the charity-wide AI. Strategy that improves outcomes for patients, drives efficiencies across the charity and increases income.
• Ensure cross-functional working to deliver on time and to budget and to agreed levels of quality.
• Ensure the highest levels of quality in all engineering work, leading the implementation of AI-supported development and testing.
• Develop and maintain product-based delivery roadmaps.
• Implement squad-based teams to support agile delivery of product improvements.
• Ensure accurate prioritisation and resource allocation.
• Implement industry leading KPI's and KRI's and implement reporting and governance to provide enhanced assurance of delivery quality.

• Public-facing web platforms, customer-focused channels and digital services.
• Internal business systems and integrations.
• CRM and Dynamics-based solutions.
• Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery against agreed roadmaps and priorities.
• Balance pace, quality, and sustainability in a charity context.
• Establish clear engineering ownership, accountability, and performance expectations.
• Act as a senior escalation point for delivery, quality, and operational risk.
• Define and enforce…