The Role: Head of Software Engineer
Location: Sheffield, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Remote work option Available: Remote with Occasional Travel
Job Description:
Lead the identification of SL bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and friction points across teams, and drive practical improvement initiatives to address them.
Partner with Engineering, Platform, and Risk and Control stakeholders to improve delivery flow, change quality, stability, resiliency, and operational effectiveness.
Define and drive the adoption of DORA, SPACE, and broader engineering metrics to create visibility, support prioritization, and improve performance outcomes.
Establish and maintain automated reporting to provide clear views of current performance, root-cause analysis, trends, and recommended actions.
Lead engineering and operational automation initiatives across areas such as testing, deployment, patching, recovery, and health checks.
Create and maintain a central engineering knowledge space and operating cadence to support governance. transparency, and continuous improvement.
Influence stakeholders across a matrix environment to align on priorities, remove blockers, and sustain delivery momentum.
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