Head of Engineering - Perm £110k - Manchester

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Manchester

Job Ref: BBBH54

Date Added: March 19th, 2025

Consultant: Heather Thompson

About the Company: A leading gaming and betting company in central Manchester is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead a specific workstream within their rapidly expanding technology landscape. The role involves overseeing software engineering and quality assurance to help the company grow and innovate as it looks to become a leading tech hub in Manchester. You will play a key function in helping the company rapidly grow the business and build market share in the UK and emerging new territories.

About the Role: Responsibilities include leading engineering best practices, ensuring teams have the right skills and resources, maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, and supporting a DevOps culture. To operate at scale, you should ensure we have the right capabilities and skills amongst engineers to support and maintain healthy environments, enabling frequent release cadences through automation. Line manage the Engineering Managers in your workstream.

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineering best practices
• Ensure teams have the right skills and resources
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships
• Support a DevOps culture
• Line manage the Engineering Managers in your workstream

Required Skills:

• Scaling engineering teams
• Understanding modern software engineering
• Focus on quality assurance
• Experience with continuous integration and deployments
• Technical prowess having spent time as a software engineer or technical architect

Pay range and compensation package: The position offers a salary of £110,000, flexi-time, bonuses, pension contributions, maternity/paternity pay, and various recognition and wellbeing programs. You will be part of a journey to dominate the betting and gaming industry on a global scale. With the help of the new platform, you'll be able to help pioneer new products and drive more advanced, creative technologies.

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