Head of Software Engineering Full Time

City, London
ARC IT Recruitment

Head of Software Engineering

London

£competitive plus bonus

PHP, Agile, API, TDD

Head of Software Engineering is required by buoyant tech division within Insurance organisation. This role will lead their software engineering team of around 40 FTEs (both onshore and offshore) including five direct reports, focused on performant and secure digital trading solutions for global specialty insurance. You will collaborate with architects to define the technical vision and strategy relating to application builds, platform development, API/event framework and service-oriented architecture, define software development methodologies and ensure adherence to agreed process.

This role would suit someone with a similar background or Lead Software Engineer looking for their next step.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Agile software delivery capability, including structure and process optimisation and planning across a number of simultaneous projects
• Owner of delivery capability strategy across all software engineering and QA, including resourcing blend, skills, metrics, capacity management etc.
• Manage demand pipeline, engineering schedule, budget and resource allocation
• Accountable and responsible for QA, including defining structure and managing function
• Set the technical standards across the team for software design and development for all applications
• Develop and manage sophisticated web applications and integration layers utilising standard and emerging development tools
• Provide technical consultation and expertise to Account Management, Product and other functions including to help effort estimate engineering tasks
• Review documents related to Product requirements and participate in product brainstorming sessions
• Interact with the delivery team to help to ensure successful delivery of each sprint iteration and product release and leads retrospective reviews
• Oversee code creation, deployment and release, using best practices framework
• Put in place processes which ensure code and infrastructure best practice security, with at least OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities covered
• Ensure that applications are optimised for scalability

Key Requirements:

• Experience of working as a Lead Software Engineer or similar role (preferably at least 5 years)
• Demonstrable experience in the entire web application development process including design, development and deployment
• Experience of working in Agile project environment
• Experience of reviewing existing processes and leading improvement activities
• Experience decomposing monoliths into microservices and/or general strong microservices experience
• Good working experience of building and managing APIs
• Experience transitioning tech stacks efficiently and effectively
• Experience of implementing effective TDD
• (London Market) insurance experience advantage but not requirement
• Previous working with Azure would be an advantage
• Experience of creating automated pipelines for deploying code
• PHP – experience with MVC frameworks (eg, Laravel)
• Working with external partner technology teams and managing blended teams of in-house and 3rd party staff

For a full consultation on this role please email your CV to Arc IT Recruitment.