Head of Engineering Web, software, Data

I'm working with a tech company seeking an accomplished engineering leader to oversee multiple technical teams and drive the evolution of their large-scale, AI-enabled platform.

You'll lead engineering across data, backend, web, ML, QA and DevOps. This role blends strategic direction with hands-on leadership, especially around distributed processing, ML operations and AI-assisted development practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Own engineering delivery and roadmap
• Guide architecture across data pipelines, ML systems, and web platforms
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and strong engineering standards
• Build, mentor, and scale a multi-discipline engineering organisation
• Work closely with Product, Data Science and DevOps on cross-team delivery
• Contribute to long-term technology strategy and platform evolution

Required Skillset

• Led multi-team engineering groups (20+ engineers)
• Strong background in distributed systems & large-scale data pipelines
• Experience with ML production environments
• Familiarity with modern data stacks and cloud-native setups (e.g., Spark, AWS)
• Understanding of TypeScript/React or similar front-end environments
• Solid DevOps exposure (CI/CD, containers, observability)
• Strong leadership, communication, and delivery execution
• Experience with web scraping related projects

Nice to Have: Search/ad-tech exposure, ML platform tooling, agentic/AI-supported coding experience.

Location - Remote (UK based candidate only)

Salary - up to £150000 pa

Sponsorship is not available for this role