Bateman Collins

About the Company

Bateman Collins connects organisations with exceptional senior leaders through tailored people and talent search services. We specialise in identifying and placing leaders who drive growth, inspire change, and align perfectly with your organisation's culture and strategic goals.

With decades of experience, we’ve placed senior leaders in key roles across Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, FMCG, Legal, and Energy/Utilities, partnering with some of the UK and Ireland’s most respected organisations.

We follow a collaborative and tailored process to identify and deliver the right leadership talent, drawing from our extensive network of over 30,000 exceptional professionals. Combining deep market insights, our proprietary assessment methodology, and a strong focus on cultural alignment, we ensure the perfect match every time—delivering tomorrow’s leaders; for lasting success.

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Company Name

Bateman Collins

Job Title

Head of Software Engineering

Job Description

**Job Title:** Head of Software Engineering **Role Summary:** Lead and evolve the software engineering organization in a regulated, high‑performance environment. Drive technical excellence, strategic direction, and operational delivery across distributed teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives and continuous improvement of engineering practices. **Expectations:** - Deliver high‑quality, reliable technology that drives commercial growth. - Shape engineering strategy, talent, and culture; manage budget and risk. - Champion modernization (cloud adoption, legacy transformation) and innovation (AI, automation). - Influence product and business strategy as a senior leadership member. **Key Responsibilities:** - Provide strategic and technical leadership for the software engineering function. - Design and own organizational structure, hiring, retention, and development of engineering talent. - Line‑manage senior engineering leaders, driving performance, engagement, and succession planning. - Establish and enforce engineering standards, governance, and best‑practice frameworks. - Lead modernization initiatives, including cloud migration and legacy platform transformation. - Promote adoption of emerging technologies (AI, automation) and continuous improvement. - Oversee controlled, risk‑aware deployment of changes into production. - Manage vendor relationships and third‑party delivery partners. - Ensure robust risk, security, and operational resilience frameworks. - Represent engineering in senior governance forums and leadership groups. **Required Skills:** - Proven experience leading high‑performing engineering teams in complex, regulated settings. - Strong technical foundation in modern development, cloud architecture, and DevSecOps. - Track record of executing large‑scale transformation programs with quantifiable impact. - Agile, product‑led mindset with ability to align engineering with business value streams. - Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills. - Expertise in legacy system modernization and cloud adoption. - Commercial awareness and strategic thinking. - High emotional intelligence, empowerment style, and passion for innovation and team development. **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. - Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS/Azure, Scrum, PMP) are preferred but not mandatory.

London, United kingdom

Hybrid

16-02-2026