Head of Software Engineering

Head of Engineering - Leading Entertainment Provider

Permanent Role, Northwest London, Hybrid (2-3x a week in office)

Up to £160,000 Base Salary 25% Bonus Benefits

An exciting opportunity for a Head of Engineering has arisen to join one of the leading entertainment providers in the UK that are going on a multi-year transformation journey. As part of their priority to drive innovation and stay ahead of the market, they are building a digital factory where all new front-end products and integrations of the backend for front-end will be developed.

Within this role your responsibility will be providing a strategic vision and technology roadmap for the creation of these products, placing a focus on the high-quality end-to-end delivery of their products and services for the organisations Web and App function. Sitting in this new digital factory, you can expect to be working closely with other internal heads of including, but not limited to, Head of Digital Product, Head of Digital Operations and Head of Data and Insights.

Whilst there are currently multiple 3rd parties, you will be building a team that combines internal and 3rd parties to set up a business unit that is meant to provide constant engineering innovation. The successful candidate will be someone who is an implementer when it comes to building products and thinking for the future. You'll have a successful track-record of leading on innovation and strategy with a knack for budgeting, planning and hiring, staying ahead of technology trends and developing successful teams.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Strong experience creating a strategic vision and technology roadmap for the digital innovation of a company with a track-record of successful end-to-end delivery
• A strong background in front-end development, specifically leading teams across front-end, back-end and mobile (ideally Java, React and for mobile Kotlin and Swift)
• Extensive experience driving best practices within the engineering function, instilling principles like TDD, agile,
• Track-record of end-to-end delivery at pace, excellent prioritisation skills and opts for a metrics delivery approach
• Strong budget management experience, with the ability to allocate spend responsibly and forecast for future years
• Extensive experience managing distributed teams across in-house developers and nearshore 3rd party technical teams
• Experience in a fast-paced, large functioning engineering team, with a knack for driving improvements to streamline development across multiple development teams (both 3rd party and internal)
• Strong communication and senior stakeholder management skills
• Bonus: Gaming/betting/Trading experience - heavily regulated environment experience is a must!

This is a hybrid working role in Northwest London (2-3 days in the office).

They are looking to pay up to £160,000 per annum base salary 25% bonus benefits. Please apply now for consideration!