seccl - Director of engineering

• Set and communicate the technical vision and strategy for the Accounts tribe, shaping direction 6–18 months ahead. • Guide architectural decisions that ensure scalability, resilience and compliance. • Work with Staff and Principal Engineers to define and evolve architectural guardrails, patterns and platform capabilities. • Partner with the Group Product Manager to align technical and product priorities for maximum customer impact. • Lead and coach Engineering Managers, enabling their growth and technical leadership. • Advocate best practices and frameworks (e.g., AWS Well-Architected Framework) across squads. • Ensure operational excellence and reliability in delivery, embedding a ‘build it, run it’ culture. • Design, refine and evolve the organisational structure of the Accounts tribe to ensure long-term flow, autonomy and Ownership. • Build succession plans, strengthen leadership pipelines and uplift engineering management capability. • Influence company-wide engineering standards, frameworks and technical strategy as part of the Engineering Leadership Team. • Drive safe, measurable adoption of AI-assisted engineering (UI acceleration, test generation, migration tooling), with appropriate governance for IP, security and compliance. • Promote continuous improvement in processes, tooling and engineering culture. • Partner with Compliance, Risk, Security and Operations to embed robust engineering governance, technical controls and audit readiness. • Shape and manage cloud spend, operational cost-to-serve and vendor relationships across the Accounts domain. • THIS ROLE’S FOR YOU IF YOU… • Have experience leading multiple engineering squads in a high-growth, cloud-native environment. • Have experience leading 20–40+ engineers through managers, Staff engineers and senior individual contributors. • Have owned multi-year technical and organisational strategies, ideally within regulated or high-integrity domains. • Understand AWS/serverless architecture and modern engineering practices. • Enjoy shaping operating models, delivery frameworks and engineering cultures. • Can operate across horizons: from long-term architectural direction to diving into technical detail when needed. • Build strong partnerships across product and engineering, Influencing at all levels. • Have a track record of improving delivery processes and driving operational efficiencies. • Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and rapid growth, using data to guide decisions. • THIS ROLE ISN’T FOR YOU IF… • You’ve never led engineering teams or scaled technical organisations. • You lack experience in cloud-native architectures or modern engineering practices. • You prefer highly prescriptive, top-down environments rather than autonomy. • You find fast-changing or ambiguous environments challenging.