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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Solution Director Engineering - **Company:** Hackajob Ltd - **Location:** Leeds, UK - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Backend, Front End Software Development - **Published:** September 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/director-of-engineering/hackajob-ltd-job108018588 ## About the Role * You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value * You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively * You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning * You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates * You're pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused * You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow * You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams ## Description As a Solution Director, you are expected to develop and drive the growth of our client accounts. Using your combined deep and broad technical subject matter expertise, client engagement skills, and knowledge of our propositions and solutions, you will build trust and credibility with senior client stakeholders to identify opportunities where we can help them achieve their goals and business ambitions. What you'll bring to the table: As a Solution Director, you are expected to develop and drive the growth of our client accounts. Using your combined deep and broad technical subject matter expertise, client engagement skills, and knowledge of our propositions and solutions, you will build trust and credibility with senior client stakeholders to identify opportunities where we can help them achieve their goals and business ambitions. Exploring client problems * Act as a high-level trusted advisor for equivalent C-suite stakeholders in your area of expertise (CPO/CTO/CDO), providing expert guidance and influencing their thinking and ambitions. * Build a deep understanding of the client's core business, strategy, and ambitions, identifying where technology and modern engineering approaches can unlock value. * Nurture relationships to build a network within the client, developing insight into their business, needs, and challenges. Advise and guide strategy and solutions thinking * Proactively engage and spend time with clients to understand and explore their needs and pain points, exploring options, proposed solutions, and providing ongoing expert advice. * Guide, advise, and influence on how technology-across cloud, AI, integration, and full stack engineering-can help address their challenges. * Input and partake in data-based conversations and work with the Data Solution Director to make sound recommendations to clients. * Constructively challenge client thinking to set them on the right path to achieve their desired outcomes. * Provide clients with tangible examples of how you have deployed AI in an engineering capacity. Identify opportunities and support deal development * Identify opportunities where we can help develop and build the right solutions for the client, including helping the client to build the business case internally. * Support the development of proposals and shaping of opportunities for both existing clients (with the Head of Client Services) and new potential clients (with CP), playing a key role in presenting our technical capabilities and engineering excellence to build client confidence. * Fully understand our propositions and solutions delivered to other clients, particularly in areas of domain expertise such as modern application development, full stack architectures, and platform engineering. Solution design * Inspire and support the client by providing a vision and defining their business and technical requirements. * Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient architectures, leveraging modern full stack engineering practices (front-end, back-end, APIs, data, DevOps, and cloud). * Provide recommendations on how we can leverage AI-based solutions to improve, enhance, expedite solutions and/or engineering practices. * Guide and mentor build teams, overseeing solution design and delivery to ensure it aligns with the original vision and delivers expected business value. * Ensure the technical integrity of solutions through architectural governance and engineering best practice. Develop our propositions and Practice Area IP * Actively provide feedback on our propositions to help maintain, develop, and evolve them as needed. * Contribute to the development of the Practice Area through sharing best practices, reusable assets, and refining methodologies-particularly in areas of software architecture, full stack engineering frameworks, and delivery models. Team leadership and development * Guide and develop ANDis on engagements, in their Practice Areas and Clubs, helping to grow and elevate technical capabilities across the business. * Mentor engineers and architects in modern engineering disciplines, fostering a culture of technical excellence, experimentation, and continuous learning. ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [The Avengers Initiative (Practical Ethics for Software Engineers)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2070-the-avengers-initiative-practical-ethics-for-software-engineers) - [Building an agentic software factory: How we rebuilt product development at Pipedrive](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100261-building-an-agentic-software-factory-how-we-rebuilt-product-development-at-pipedrive) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) - [Agile work at CARIAD – Creating a customer web application for controlling the vehicle ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/200-agile-work-at-cariad-creating-a-customer-web-application-for-controlling-the-vehicle) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)