Senior Director Engineering – Manufacturing England, United Kingdom Research and Development

Senior Director Engineering – Manufacturing

• Full-time

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We are looking for a Senior Engineering Leader to lead in the Manufacturing Product organization s role operates at a strategic and organizational level, overseeing a multi-layered engineering organization comprising Engineering Directors, Architects, and Principal Engineers.

You will be responsible for defining and executing engineering strategy across multiple teams and domains, ensuring alignment with product vision, architecture direction, and business priorities.

While this is a senior leadership role, technical depth and sound engineering judgment remain critical. You are expected to guide architectural direction, influence key technical decisions, and ensure strong engineering discipline across the organization.

AI is a core enabler and strategic priority in this role. You will drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI-assisted engineering and AI-powered product capabilities, ensuring measurable impact on both engineering productivity and customer value.

What You’ll Do

Organizational Leadership

Lead a multi-layered engineering organization, including Engineering Directors, Architects, and Principal Engineers

Define and execute the engineering strategy for Manufacturing, aligned with product and company-wide technology direction

Drive organizational design, capability building, and succession planning

Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement

Scale leadership capability by coaching and developing leaders of leaders

Delivery and Execution

Own delivery outcomes across multiple teams, ensuring predictability, quality, and timely execution at scale

Establish and evolve consistent engineering operating models and execution practices

Balance business priorities, technical investments, and operational excellence

Ensure teams operate with a “you build it, you run it” mindset

Technical & Architectural Leadership

Provide strategic technical direction across teams, in close collaboration with Architecture

Influence and governing architecture decisions, platform evolution, and system design standards

Ensure high standards across:

Cloud-native architecture

CI/CD and Dev Ops practices

Automated testing, observability, and security

Maintain strong technical credibility and intervene hands-on where it adds the most value

Drive…