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Director of Software Engineering

Job Posted: 6 days ago

Salary: £ 115,000 - 145,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: LS19, Rawdon, City and Borough of Leeds

Expire in: 22 days

Job Description

Director of Software Engineering
Remote based in the UKI with occasional travel
Overview
A senior leadership role owning end-to-end engineering delivery, and commercial outcomes for a UK and global healthcare software supplier. You will drive product growth, lead global platform convergence, and embed AI as a core productivity and differentiation capability.
This role will be overseeing software engineering delivery for well established, market leading products at a point where customer led requirements will drive future development effort. You will also be leveraging AI across the software engineering organisation. A great time to join. This will suit someone who has previously owned and can drive strategic decision making across a Software Engineering organisation.
Genuine growth potential
This role is UKI focussed initially, and has genuine growth potential with a road to VP, which would include owning engineering for UKI and EU products.
Key Responsibilities for the Director of Software Engineering:
  * Own Software Engineering end to end: architecture, delivery, and lifecycle for UKI products
  * Drive revenue growth through differentiated capabilities, faster time to value, and commercial execution
  * Deliver high-quality, mission-critical, regulated clinical software with clear accountability for outcomes
  * Lead AI-first transformation across platforms, and engineering practices, improving velocity, quality, and cost to serve
  * Partner with Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Services, and Support to accelerate go-to-market, implementations, renewals, and expansion
  * Lead globally distributed teams with strong execution discipline and outcome-based accountability- headcount of 65+ across UK and India
Skills & Experience for the Director of Software Engineering:
  * Proven director level ownership of Software Engineering covering workforce transformation, AI strategy & governance and global scale delivery
  * Strong commercial mindset with a track record of delivering growth for a software vendor/author and owning software portfolios of circa £100M
  * Experience delivering large-scale, regulated or mission-critical platforms
  * Demonstrated success leading AI-enabled or technology-led transformation
  * Strong cross-functional influence and stakeholder engagement skills with Customers, Product Management, Sales & Marketing, Support and Professional Services
  * Experience leading global, multi-time-zone teams, 70+ headcount
  * Knowledge of regulated software environments such as healthcare desirable
  * Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar (or equivalent experience)
  * OK with remote based role and occasional travel to international company offices and customer sites

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