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Director, Quality & Release Engineering

London, UKFull-time£150k–£180k2026-11-04 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid · United Kingdom

Core

Drive the shift from manual oversight to an AI-assisted product development lifecycle, owning quality and release governance at the programme level while managing an engineering team building AI-assisted automation and test data capabilities.

Role type

Director, Quality & Release Engineering

Builds

AI-assisted automation tooling, test data management strategies, and release governance frameworks for an energy intelligence platform.

Domain

Energy, Utilities, Clean Technology

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Strategic quality leadership, AI/LLM tooling evaluation, test data management, release governance, distributed team leadership, change management, stakeholder communication

Preferred skills

Energy/regulated domain experience, observability practices, shift-left quality integration

Technologies

LLMs, AI testing tools, CI/CD, synthetic data generation

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the quality strategy across delivery streams; define and maintain release governance frameworks; directly manage a team building AI-assisted automation; lead the transformation of QA practice to intelligent, risk-based engineering; manage the tension between delivery velocity and release stability.

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership with hands-on team management