What You'll Do

Engineering Delivery & Operations

• Own engineering's delivery performance across all squads, partnering with Product to ensure capacity, priorities and roadmap commitments are realistic, transparent and aligned.
• Establish a consistent engineering operating model, spanning planning, estimation and release practices, that enables teams to plan, prioritise and deliver predictably at scale.
• Own engineering capacity planning and allocation across squads, balancing strategic priorities, delivery commitments and team capability
• Establish and monitor meaningful engineering performance metrics, covering roadmap predictability, cycle time, quality, reliability technical debt and team health and report on these to the CPTO and ELT.
• Identify delivery risks and dependencies early, driving resolution or escalating material trade-offs to the CPTO
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People Leadership

• Directly manage and develop the Development Manager cohort. Set clear expectations, coach on people leadership and hold them accountable for their squads' delivery and team health.
• Own engineering headcount planning, hiring and onboarding in partnership with the CPTO and People & Culture.
• Continuously assess engineering team structures, skills and capabilities to ensure the organisation is designed for current and future priorities.
• Build engineering career pathways and capability frameworks that support progression for engineers and managers.
• Own engineering engagement and retention, monitoring team health signals and championing a strong engineering culture
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Engineering Practice & Standards

• Partner with technical leaders (Development Managers, Tech Leads and the Head of Technology) to ensure engineering decisions support scalability, maintainability, security, reliability and delivery outcomes - you'll own engineering quality and technical execution even though this role is not the ultimate architecture owner.
• Champion consistent engineering standards, tooling and ways of working across squads.
• Balance delivery pace against technical debt and quality, escalating trade-offs to the CPTO where they affect strategy or architecture
• Partner with the Head of Technology to ensure engineering teams implement and maintain required standards for reliability security and compliance across AU, UK and Ireland
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Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as engineering's day-to-day representative to Product, People & Culture, the Head of Technology and other functional leaders.
• Give the CPTO clear, timely visibility into delivery status, risks and people matters.
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