_{12th January, 2021}

James Adams has partnered with a fast-growing & award-winning technology business in Edinburgh. Our customer is recruiting for a Head of Engineering to manage their Engineering team, which is made up of Development, QA, and DevOps. The team is currently over 25 in size and is fast growing to become 50-60 in the next 12 – 18 months. They are a customer-facing technology solutions business that leverage and deliver a wide array of products and services to a global client base.
  
The Development team is split across Mobile Engineering, doing both Cross Platform and Native Development in iOS using Swift and Android using Kotlin. Front End Development, primarily focusing on React/Typescript as the main tools of choice & Back End Development split across .Net and Java with Spring Boot. Their solution is mainly cloud-based and they leverage both event-driven and microservices-based architecture to deliver seamless, secure, and scalable bandwidth and stability to their products and services.
  
They are looking for a Head of Engineering to come from a development background and have worked managing teams of developers, ideally within different disciplines and skillsets. The team works in an agile methodology and the different project teams are structured cross-functionally so groups of different specialists can work together to leverage and solve technical problems. As their Head of Engineering, you’ll come in and manage this function, with the different team line managers reporting to you as direct reports.
  
In your role you will:  

• Be responsible for the delivery of all technical projects and also the happiness and productivity of the technical team.
• Work with line managers to build skills and experience to promote individuals up through the different teams.
• To help hire the right talent into the organisation by reviewing CV’s, Job Specs and helping to conduct interviews.
• You will be in charge of driving technical excellence across the organisation from both an individual and a process viewpoint.
• You will be involved in enterprise and systems architecture.
• Be responsible for deciding on and delivering the technical roadmap for the organisation, you will have control of what tech is used and what Tech the business invests in.
• You will be reporting to the CEO and be expected to regularly attend board meetings to discuss ongoing project delivery and performance.
• You will have some client engagement and be expected to sit in on high-level meetings to discuss project delivery and performance.

  Our customer is ideally looking for someone with the following skills:  

• You will have experience in managing technology teams of 15+ people in the past.
• You will have a strong technical background and have ideally worked as an engineer or developer in a past life.
• They are looking for someone with a strong and demonstrable career history of building successful and functional teams.
• Ideally, any consulting, 3rd party, SAAS Vendor, or digital agency experience would be ideal.

 This is an excellent opportunity to head up the Engineering function of a fast-growing and highly successful business that is fast making a name for itself in Scotland and the UK. The team is a diverse and friendly bunch and company culture and ethos are at the heart of the organisation’s approach to work. If this sounds like it could be interesting, we’d love to talk more.
  
This role is currently fully remote. When things get back to a sense of normality they are planning a phased return to work. This role will probably be expected in the office once a week or twice on a fortnightly basis. So if you’re not based in Scotland, Edinburgh should be commutable or you'd need to spend a couple of nights away on a monthly basis.

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