VP Engineering and Reliability United Kingdom Research and Development

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #Make Your Moment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

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To lead the engineering& reliability function within the “Technology Platform”organization responsible for the systems that other engineers build on: continuous delivery,automated infrastructure provisioning,database and performance engineering.

The VP is accountable for the reliability, security,performance and cost of these platforms, for the engineering standards applied across them, and for building a high-calibre, globally distributed leadership team.

Key areas of responsibility

1 Strategy and technical leadership

Own and communicate a multi-year technical strategy for CI/CD, provisioning, database engineering and observability, aligned to the wider cloud-first roadmap.

Set the architecture and engineering standards for platform services; act as the senior technical authority and design-review escalation point.

Build the business case for platform investment, including build-versus-buy decisions on tooling, and secure funding through the annual planning cycle.

Define and drive the modernisation path for the Oracle estate — consolidation, re-platforming, migration to managed or cloud-native services — with a clear, staged, risk-managed plan.

2 CI/CD and delivery engineering

Own the continuous integration and continuous delivery platform end to end: source control strategy, build systems, artefact management, pipeline orchestration, environment management and release automation.

Drive measurable improvement in DORA metrics — deployment frequency, lead time for change, change failure rate and mean time to restore — across all consuming product teams.

Embed secure software supply chain practice: dependency and artefact provenance, SBOM generation, signing, secrets management and policy gates in pipeline.

Treat internal developer experience as a product: define the golden paths, measure adoption and satisfaction, and reduce the cognitive load on product…