Head of Engineering Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Head of Engineering to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Managing, developing and growing out the Software Engineering team;
- Steer day-to-day delivery and help the team manage and define their workloads through regular 1-to-1’s;
- Coding in Python from day 1 for the first 6 months;
- Translate product requirements into technical specifications and implementation plans;
- Demonstrate and teach best practices (TDD/BDD);
- Working closely with the CTO to deliver according to business requirements;
- Contribute to technical design and implementations decisions;
- Initiating the recruitment for the Data Platform team;
- Conducting code reviews with the other developers;
- Leadership of the Engineering Team;
- Team building and morale, career development, and succession planning of the Engineering Team.
Requirements:
- Hands-on experience managing high maturity in Scrum / Agile / DevOps teams;
- Ability to prototype using one or more programming languages and ability collaborate with skilled engineers without being an expert;
- Personal passion for improving processes with tools and automation;
- Experience recruiting and interviewing for a fast-growth business area;
- Background in delivering complex software applications into production with a deep understanding of the principles and practices of DevOps;
- Software Engineering background with hands-on coding experience before building and leading high performing engineering teams;
- Experience in managing contract negotiations;
- Comprehensive and extensive knowledge of broadcast technology both current and in development, including I.P. based systems;
- A track record of delivering large-scale, well architected solutions at pace;
- Capital Projects;
- Breakdown;
- Previous significant managerial experience of engineering or technical teams in a live broadcast environment;
- TDD;
- AWStats;
- Python.