Head of Engineering
Role Overview
The Head of Engineering owns Rotageek engineering end-to-end and reports to the CTO.
The role leads through an established Squad Leadership layer across product delivery, Intelligence and Insights, data-science optimisation, platform, DevOps and support.
The role focuses on execution, delivery commitments, operational measurement, accountability and support for the commercial organisation.
The engineering organisation is moving towards an AI-native, domain-driven squad model, with squads owning defined domains.
Key Skills for This Role
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- Hybrid working, UK based and primarily in London, with around two to three days a week in the office.
About Rotageek
Rotageek builds workforce-management software for scheduling, time and attendance, leave and labour-cost optimisation.
Its product serves enterprise operators across retail, hospitality, distribution and healthcare, across thousands of locations.
Rotageek is part of the ELMO group, with engineering capability across the UK and Australia.
The role
The Head of Engineering owns Rotageek engineering end-to-end and reports to the CTO.
The role leads through an established Squad Leadership layer across product delivery, Intelligence and Insights, data-science optimisation, platform, DevOps and support.
The role focuses on execution, delivery commitments, operational measurement, accountability and support for the commercial organisation.
The engineering organisation is moving towards an AI-native, domain-driven squad model, with squads owning defined domains.
Responsibilities
- Own engineering delivery, operational health, quality, security, cost, capability and headcount.
- Lead, hire and develop squad leaders, managing performance and accountability.
- Establish delivery cadence and visibility into commitments, forecasts, risks, dependencies and closure.
- Deliver customer integrations, product work, platform programmes and migration from Azure to AWS.
- Set standards for testing, code review, security scanning, releases, rollbacks, production ownership and on-call.
- Measure delivery, deployment, incidents, support, defects, quality compliance and cloud cost per tenant.
- Manage budgets across headcount, contractors, vendors, tooling and cloud run-rate.
- Own incident and support processes, including escalation, major-incident communication, root-cause reviews and action tracking.
- Build instrumentation, event models, activation and adoption measurement, expansion signals and self-service capability.
- Shape domain-driven squads and resolve recurring technical issues affecting delivery or customers.
- Advise executive partners on feasibility, capacity, risk, investment and customer value.
- Own security, compliance and risk across a multi-tenant estate with UK and Australian data-residency obligations.
What we're looking for
- Proven experience owning multi-squad engineering delivery and operational health end-to-end.
- Experience leading through managers or squad leaders, including hiring, coaching, performance management and succession planning.
- Track record improving delivery predictability, quality, cost, incident performance, support ageing or similar measures.
- Strong delivery discipline, including clear commitments, protected capacity and closing work loops.
- Ability to foster honest reporting and communicate risks early, including upwards.
- Experience shaping or operating domain-driven teams with clear ownership.
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