Head of Engineering

Your role
As Head of Engineering, you report directly to the CPTO and are responsible for translating the Product & Technology strategy into a high‑performing, scalable Engineering organisation.

You ensure that engineering teams operate with clarity, strong leadership and a direct connection to business and partner value.

Your role is to turn strategic direction into predictable execution, while building the leadership and capabilities required to scale sustainably.

What you will do
Translate strategy into execution

Translate Product & Technology strategy into clear engineering priorities, goals and roadmaps.

Align department objectives with company strategy, partner value streams and product direction.

Ensure consistent prioritization and focus across teams.

Lead and develop engineering leadership

Directly manage and develop Technical leaders within the teams:

Platform & Infrastructure

Data center of excellence

DevX

Build a strong technical leadership bench with clear accountability and ownership.

Coach leaders on delivery excellence, modern engineering practices & decision‑making.

Build organisation‑wide engineering capability

Indirectly drive performance, skills and competencies across all engineering teams.

Establish clear expectations on performance output, engineering quality and delivery standards.

Ensure continuous improvement of engineering practices, including AI acceleration, Dev Sec Ops  and modern architecture.

Ensure scalable structure and succession

Own succession planning across all engineering teams.

Identify key talent gaps and develop internal pipelines.

Design a scalable organization structure aligned with growth and complexity.

Align engineering with business and partner value

Align engineering structure, processes and priorities with business stakeholders.

Ensure strong collaboration with Product, Commercial and Partner teams.

Translate technical delivery into measurable business impact.

Drive predictable and high‑quality delivery

Establish clear delivery processes, governance and performance metrics.

Improve stability, predictability, repeatability, speed and quality of delivery.

Reduce operational friction and increase engineering throughput.

Cloud & Application transformation

Lead the modernisation of the current software architecture, focused on business impact and scalability.

Introduce and embed modern principles across application, cloud, data and infrastructure domains.

Migrate components in a controlled and deliberate way, balancing risk, continuity and speed.

Ensure a sustainable, fit‑for‑purpose approach: modern architecture is the goal, cloud is the enabler.

Lead the transition to public cloud and managed services, aligned with long‑term operational efficiency and flexibility.

What Success looks like

Success in this role means building an engineering organisation that delivers predictably and ms consistently hit roadmap commitments, with stable execution and minimal delivery friction.

You develop a strong leadership bench where senior leaders operate with real ownership and autonomy, reducing dependency on top‑down decision‑making and enabling faster, better outcomes.

The organisation scales without adding complexity. Clear ownership, focused teams and a well‑designed structure allow for speed and independent execution as the company grows.

Engineering performance improves structurally: faster cycle times, fewer incidents and higher quality output. Teams deliver more value with less effort.

You ensure a direct connection between engineering and business impact. What gets built clearly translates into partner value, revenue and strategic progress.

At the same time, you prepare the organisation for the future. AI and modern engineering practices are embedded in how teams work, driving productivity, automation and faster innovation cycles.

What you bring

8–12+ years experience in engineering leadership within scaling SaaS/PaaS environments.

Proven experience managing senior engineering leaders and complex organisations.

Strong track record in translating strategy into execution and delivery.

Experience with modern engineering practices (Dev Sec Ops , cloud, AI‑enabled development).

Ability to build and…