Brand New Role - Director of Engineering - Manchester City Centre, Hybrid (2-3 days a week) - up to £160,000 base salary + 30% bonus + benefits
If you are at the Director of Engineering level, first of all, congrats. You've done well to get where you are. You'll also know these roles don't come around often, either, especially in the North West.
In this role, you'll work with a tech-focused organisation who are a household name product company. Which is a fancy way of saying I guarantee you've heard of this company before, and tech is uno numero here. It is what steers the ship.
So what will you do?
You'll lead a ~150-strong local engineering function that is growing to a ~200-strong local engineering function. You'll also manage the managers of managers, if that makes sense. This organisation is broken down into different products/remits, with each Head of Engineering looking after ~60 engineers. You won't have 150 direct reports.
Also, this role isn't for purely strategic Directors. This is for the Directors who like to stay close to the tech. I am not saying you will be writing code, but you can talk about best practices, set guard rails, and talk concretely about architecture.
If you like working in a direct, low ego, delivery-focused environment with no politics or fluff, then this is the role for you.
And as you are a Director of Engineering, or a similar title (there are endless amounts of titles), your time is finite, and you probably aren't looking for a new role. You are reading this on the five-minute break you've squeezed in.
So, to not waste your time, a successful candidate will have/be:
- Scaled and looked after teams of 120 - 300 engineers (give or take, with a pinch of salt). Don't let this put you off if you have had a remit of 102 engineers for e.g.
- Is happy to set guardrails, challenge technical opinions and talk confidently about architecture (I must iterate they aren't looking for you to be the Lead Architect, more challenge and can talk about architecture confidently).
- Worked in high-availability environments (doesn't have to be in your current role, but good exposure is needed).
- They are open to any stack but to let you know they are mainly a Microsoft house with AWS for cloud.
If it does sound interesting, please apply. I'll be in touch. Thank you for reading.
