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# Head of Software Engineering

- **Company:** Hybrid London
- **Location:** Wellingborough, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £65,000.0 - £77,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, DevOps, Software Engineering, Event Driven Architecture, Enterprise Integration
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/head-of-software-engineering/hybrid-london-job107788892

## About the Role

We're looking for a senior engineering leader who has experience operating within large, complex organisations where technology underpins critical operational services.
You'll likely bring:

 * Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering functions
 * Strong understanding of modern engineering practices and cloud-native environments
 * Experience shaping engineering strategy, standards and governance
 * Ability to influence senior stakeholders across technical and non-technical environments
 * Experience balancing engineering quality, delivery, scalability and cost
 * A collaborative leadership style with strong people leadership capability
Experience within highly regulated or complex environments such as public sector, education, healthcare, financial services or similarly scaled organisations would be highly beneficial.

## Description

Reporting into senior technology leadership, the Head of Engineering will lead a broad engineering function spanning:

 * Software Engineering
 * Integration Engineering
 * Data Engineering
 * Platform Engineering
You'll be responsible for setting the engineering direction, standards and operating model across the function, ensuring engineering quality, scalability, resilience and long-term technical health.
This role combines strategic leadership with deep technical credibility. You'll remain close to architecture, engineering decisions and platform strategy while leading managers and senior engineers across multiple teams.
The environment is heavily focused on modern cloud-native engineering, with significant investment across:

 * Microsoft Azure
 * DevOps and CI/CD
 * Infrastructure as Code
 * Event-driven architecture
 * Platform engineering
 * Automation and AI-enabled services
You'll also play a key role in shaping engineering culture, improving operational maturity and helping establish best-in-class engineering practices across a large-scale enterprise environment.


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