Description

Responsible

As a Tech leader, you will be responsible for leading several teams focused on driving our cross sell user experience delivery taking a significant level of ownership and guidance to this area. You will lead your team to design and build technical solutions that enable customers to review, interact and purchase the most relevant products easily within our web and app platforms. You will:

·Lead the performance of multiple teams on your scope, as well as driving the technical agenda of your area with long-term reliability planning. You will support the execution of the HOW, and challenge the WHAT with the product leads.

· Coach, support and set Engineering Managers in your team up for success. Having a consistent track record of expertise growing technical leaders and managers, the successful candidate will facilitate the growth of our future engineering leaders.

· Act as technical leader to propose, act and solve issues, impediments or blockers (typically not only on the scope of a single team). This means you will facilitate your teams’ execution of their backlog by removing technical roadblocks, either internally or with external stakeholders.

· Management of managers and senior individual contributors alike. This means establishing their S.M.A.R.T or measurable objectives, cascaded from the team level and individually, via individual development plans, performance improvement plans or growth plans.

· Responsible for bringing in the right people, with domain expertise, or to grow those that don’t have it, into it.

· Dually responsible for the collective software delivery, reliability and resilience as well as organisational health of all teams under your scope.

· Provide architectural guidance and deliver innovation underpinned by technical excellence.

Skilled

· Deep technical expertise and thorough hands-on experience modern, interoperable, web systems development (8+ years working in technology)

· Demonstrable experience in shaping and leading a software engineering platform function (5+ years as a manager)

· Experience of building front end platforms and Micro Front End architecture for mobile applications or web experiences

· Demonstrable experience building solutions using service oriented architectures

· Experience of leading directly a team as well as through others

· Track record shaping products from concept through delivery at scale

· Natural leader and communicator who is collaborative and builds great relationships

· Clear verbal & written communication, able to explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders

· An interest in connecting the dots and collaborating with various stakeholders to prioritise what maximises business value