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Head of Software Engineering

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-28 → 2026-08-06

Core

Lead a multi-site software engineering team to drive improvements in delivery, quality, and operational processes during a period of change.

Role type

Senior leadership IC (Head of Software Engineering)

Builds

Specialist software solutions for customers worldwide

Domain

Software engineering / Industrial software

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Team leadership, delivery performance improvement, backlog management, process improvement, technical debt reduction, change management

Preferred skills

Microsoft/legacy technology environments, CI/CD, automated testing, geographically distributed team leadership, industrial software experience

Technologies

Microsoft, legacy technology environments, CI/CD, automated testing

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a multi-site software engineering team, Reduce support and project backlogs while improving delivery performance, Improve engineering processes, standards, testing, and release practices, Drive accountability, collaboration, and team cohesion, Support modernisation initiatives and reduction of technical debt, Provide regular delivery and progress reporting to senior leadership

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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