Director of Software Engineering

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Remote based in the UKI with occasional travel
Overview
A senior leadership role owning end-to-end engineering delivery, and commercial outcomes for a UK and global healthcare software supplier. You will drive product growth, lead global platform convergence, and embed AI as a core productivity and differentiation capability.
This role will be overseeing software engineering delivery for well established, market leading products at a point where customer led requirements will drive future development effort. You will also be leveraging AI across the software engineering organisation. A great time to join. This will suit someone who has previously owned and can drive strategic decision making across a Software Engineering organisation.
Genuine growth potential
This role is UKI focussed initially, and has genuine growth potential with a road to VP, which would include owning engineering for UKI and EU products.
Key Responsibilities For The Director Of Software Engineering
Own Software Engineering end to end: architecture, delivery, and lifecycle for UKI products
Drive revenue growth through differentiated capabilities, faster time to value, and commercial execution
Deliver high-quality, mission-critical, regulated clinical software with clear accountability for outcomes
Lead AI-first transformation across platforms, and engineering practices, improving velocity, quality, and cost to serve
Partner with Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Services, and Support to accelerate go-to-market, implementations, renewals, and expansion
Lead globally distributed teams with strong execution discipline and outcome-based accountability- headcount of 65+ across UK and India
Skills & Experience For The Director Of Software Engineering
Proven director level ownership of Software Engineering covering workforce transformation, AI strategy & governance and global scale delivery
Strong commercial mindset with a track record of delivering growth for a software vendor/author and owning software portfolios of circa £100M
Experience delivering large-scale, regulated or mission-critical platforms
Demonstrated success leading AI-enabled or technology-led transformation
Strong cross-functional influence and stakeholder engagement skills with Customers, Product Management, Sales & Marketing, Support and Professional Services
Experience leading global, multi-time-zone teams, 70+ headcount
Knowledge of regulated software environments such as healthcare desirable
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar (or equivalent experience)
OK with remote based role and occasional travel to international company offices and customer sites

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