Description:
We're searching for a London-based Engineering Director to join our Engineering team, so that we can deliver integrated, scalable and reliable solutions for healthcare organisations. The Engineering Director will lead and coordinate cross-functional engineering teams to align technical execution with our strategic business goals, driving delivery excellence, system reliability and innovation across multiple technical domains.
How You'll Spend Your Time
- Leading and coordinating cross-functional engineering teams to deliver integrated, scalable solutions aligned with strategic business goals
- Defining and communicating technical strategy across engineering domains, partnering with Product, Design and Platform to align priorities with customer and business outcomes
- Overseeing high-quality, timely project delivery by establishing robust delivery standards, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing to support reliable software releases
- Mentoring and developing engineering talent, coaching technical leads and senior engineers to strengthen leadership capability, accountability and technical ownership
- Managing operational budgets and resources, establishing operational objectives and departmental policies while ensuring adherence to governance protocols
- Implementing comprehensive monitoring, logging and alerting, along with effective on-call and incident-management practices, to ensure system reliability and observability in a regulated healthcare environment
What Kind of Things We're Most Interested in You Having
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions across software, infrastructure, data and security domains
- Proven success establishing and optimising engineering processes, including observability, monitoring and automated delivery pipelines to support high-quality, reliable software releases
- In-depth knowledge on how to manage technical strategy, resource allocation and operational budgets within a dynamic R&D environment, ensuring alignment with business objectives
- Advanced proficiency in diagnosing and resolving complex technical challenges, including performance bottlenecks and distributed system issues, across diverse platforms
- Experience operating in a regulated environment, with practical understanding of security, governance, risk and compliance considerations, alongside modern development frameworks, cloud engineering and the full SDLC
- A knack for working collaboratively across cross-functional teams, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to translate complex technical concepts into actionable plans