Head of Engineering- Accounting

of Engineering
- Accounting Department:
Development

Employment Type:

Full Time

Location:

Warwick Description

Bright is a leading provider of accounting, payroll, tax and HR solutions to businesses across the UK and Ireland, with ambitious growth plans. We streamline processes for accountants and businesses by delivering excellent products that enable automation and integration of core business functions, underpinned by world‑class support. Bright Pay is used to process the payroll for over 380,000 businesses across Ireland and the UK.

Bright Pay is used to process pay slips for 3.5 million employees.

Hg Capital acquired Bright in 2021. Hg's vision is to be the most sought‑after private equity investor within our sector focus, being a partner of choice for management teams and providing a rewarding environment for Hg colleagues. Hg has led over 100 investments in the software and services sector during the last 25 years. This focus means we have developed an institutional expertise and a deep understanding of the markets and businesses in which we invest.

Due to our ambitious plans a strong growth, we are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead our Accounting Products across Engineering, Devops and Infrastructure teams. Taking responsibility for ensuring our resources are deployed in the most effective way to produce scalable, secure, and highly usable products for our customers. The successful person will lead teams located in the UK, Ireland and India and work closely with the Chief Product and Technology Officer, the Chief Information Security Officer, other Heads of Engineering and our Heads of Product to deliver our exciting roadmap.

This position will play a pivotal role in the future of the company, making strategic technology decisions, including managing a technology budget and making investments to technically align the company with its vision and mission. The candidate will be a strategic thinker, an effective communicator, and an expert in technological development.

AI:
You will have a passion for AI in engineering across all disciplines and a key focus on optimising Engineering outcomes and delivering innovation with pace and rigour. Understanding the application of AI to drive safe and performant velocity in all aspects of team deliverables will be a core skill. In return we will provide state of the art tooling and access to LLM Ops platforms and infrastructure for you to execute.

With experience in building and delivering SAAS software in a high‑volume customer environment, you will have highly developed native technical skills and will be required to keep on top of emerging technologies and trends, particularly within a SaaS business, to support the business remaining competitive.

Critically, you will have robust leadership skills, be a people person with high emotional intelligence and the ability to inspire and engage various teams. The capability to communicate technology initiatives and how they fit with company goals will be key.

You will have a strong eye for cost optimisation ensuring that our R&D expenditure provides the highest return on investment.

• Delivering the product roadmap to high quality and agreed deadlines
• Lead on AI engineering initiative, showcase best practice and leverage and adoption of AI throughout the engineering lifecycle
• Work with teams to ensure the engineering toolchain and process is robust and efficient
• Increase visibility of engineering KPIS and deliverables
• Making recommendations and presenting business advantages for technology initiatives and improvements
• Working with the CPTO to design and lead the implementation of our strategy for technology while ensuring the implementation and enforcement of technology standards across the organisation
• Working in close collaboration with the CPTO and CISO to establish best practices for the software development lifecycle, application delivery, infrastructure management, user experience, and security; overseeing the implementation of the entire software development lifecycle from build, through test and…