Software Engineering Director
Storyteq
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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Tech Stack
About the role
- The Software Engineering Director is a senior technology leader responsible for driving engineering excellence, organisational scaling, and operational performance across ITG & Storyteq’s global development organisation.
- This role leads multiple Group Engineering Managers, Quality Engineering and is accountable for people leadership, delivery operations, international hub expansion, and long-term technical quality.
- Partnering closely with Product, Platform, Tech Operations, Support, and the wider R&D leadership team, the Director ensures our engineering organisation operates predictably, efficiently, and in alignment with ITG & Storyteq’s strategic objectives.
- This role is critical in shaping and executing the future of our multi-product platform, ensuring teams deliver world-class quality, reliability, and innovation at scale.
- Lead, mentor, and develop Group Engineering Managers and Heads of function within Product engineering, providing strategic support and coaching to ensure they build sustainable, cost effective, high-performing, scalable teams.
- Cultivate a culture of excellence, learning, and accountability across all engineering functions. Ensure clear development pathways for leads, seniors, and individual contributors.
- Identify organisational performance issues and implement corrective strategies that improve team velocity, morale, and long-term capability.
- Act as a senior R&D leadership partner, aligning engineering operations with business priorities across Product, Platform, Support, and GTM functions.
- Maintain regular skip-level conversations to ensure clarity on team sentiment, operational risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Provide strategic leadership for Quality Engineering across all products and teams, ensuring robust testing frameworks, automation strategies including AI, and quality processes are embedded throughout the SDLC.
- Own, continuously refine, and evolve the maturity of the SDLC, ensuring modern, scalable, and measurable engineering processes across all hubs.
Requirements
- 8+ years of technical leadership experience, including managing multiple product engineering teams and managers in a scaled software engineering organisation.
- Experience in a multi-product integrated SaaS environment.
- Proven success driving engineering maturity within Agile/Scrum environments and owning end-to-end SDLC optimisation including Quality Assurance/Engineering.
- Demonstrable experience scaling engineering teams internationally, including establishing new hubs or distributed teams.
- Strong track record of driving improvements using engineering metrics and implementing modern tooling (including AI-based development accelerators).
- Experience in cloud-native, microservices-oriented, and API-led architectures.
Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays – we understand the importance of you getting some downtime.
- Annual Wellbeing Day – enjoy an additional day on us to look after your physical and mental well-being.
- Pension Scheme – helping you save towards your retirement home in the sun!
- Corporate Medical Cash Plan – claim back the cost of your medical treatments.
- So many savings – through our online community platform, you can access dozens of daily deals, from money off top brands to discounts on days out.
- Employee Assistance Programme – our people are at the heart of everything we do, so if you’re happy, we’re happy.
- Cycle to Work Scheme – save on the cost of biking to work.
- Monthly Employee Awards - Employee of the Month program with £250 bonus
- Raising money for charity including a paid Volunteer Day – we’re all about giving back… and having lots of fun in the process!
- Referral scheme – know the perfect person to join the team? You could bag £1,000 for putting a good word in.
- Wellbeing Programme – giving you the opportunity to join regular, interactive Wellbeing Workshops or join our 30-plus Wellbeing Champions.
- Enhanced Family Friendly Leave – support for you and your family to help you navigate through the craziness of family life.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
technical leadershipAgileScrumSDLCQuality Assuranceengineering metricscloud-native architecturemicroservices architectureAPI-led architectureautomation strategies
Soft Skills
people leadershipmentoringstrategic supportcoachingorganizational performance improvementteam velocity enhancementculture of excellenceaccountabilitycommunicationcollaboration