Smart Pension
Our mission is to transform retirement, savings and financial wellbeing, across all generations, around the world.
Auto enrolment • Workplace pensions • Pensions administration platform • DC Pension Scheme • Technology
501 - 1000
Director of Engineering
August 13
🔄 Hybrid – London
Smart Pension
Our mission is to transform retirement, savings and financial wellbeing, across all generations, around the world.
Auto enrolment • Workplace pensions • Pensions administration platform • DC Pension Scheme • Technology
501 - 1000
Description
• A ‘Director of Engineering’ role with broad scope and positive impact. • Looking for someone with a modern and deeply technical engineering background. • Lead the change of the technology team ensuring highly efficient and value-driven output by adopting agile thinking and processes. • Oversee the overall engineering team, including developers, QA, infrastructure and the service desk, across all territories, ensuring effective collaboration and alignment. • Collaborate with Solutions and Product Directors to streamline the process from product conception to delivery. • Review and assess current engineering practices and implement continuous improvement programs to drive faster and leaner development cycles. • Continuously enhance and develop automated test coverage and test automation to maintain and improve the platform’s codebase. • Balance architectural desire against project delivery - tradeoffs between performance, delivery, reliability & scalability while you map against business objectives and deadlines. • Be a technologist with knowledge of front-end languages such as JavaScript and React frameworks or backend languages such as Ruby on Rails.
Requirements
• Demonstrable experience as a Director, Head of Engineering or a CTO. • Proven background in a fast scaling technology business and financial services in your recent career history. • Strong leadership skills – this is a leadership role that is all about leading teams and getting the best from our incredible Engineers. • Strong understanding of software development methodologies, architectural patterns, and best practices. • Effective team player and collaborator able to work seamlessly across departments. • Strong experience and governance across back-end & front-end development. Ability to discern right from wrong in the context of an engineering decision. • Able to lead complex projects – manage multiple stakeholders and deliver to targets. • Strong communicator – This role requires someone to be very comfortable communicating across the business and at all levels. • Experience with API based application development is essential. • Proven experience in software architecture and leading large-scale transformation projects. • Personable and appreciative, leading teams with a people-first approach. • Familiarity with modern DevOps tools and practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and infrastructure as code.
Benefits
• 25 days’ holiday per year, increasing with length of service. • £500 annual training budget to spend on your professional development • Extensive private healthcare, including dental, eyecare and EAP • Enhanced sick leave (three months’ pay per year) • Enhanced maternity and paternity (maternity – 6 months fully paid/paternity – 3 weeks fully paid) • Death in service insurance cover • Fully-paid five-week sabbatical after five years of employment • In office wellbeing, such as manicures, massages and barbers. • 50% discount on orders from sister company Arena Flowers.
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