Director of Software Engineering in Watford

Director of Software Engineering Remote based in the UKI with occasional travel Overview A senior leadership role owning end-to-end engineering delivery, and commercial outcomes for a UK and global healthcare software supplier. You will drive product growth, lead global platform convergence, and embed AI as a core productivity and differentiation capability. This role will be overseeing software engineering delivery for well established, market leading products at a point where customer led requirements will drive future development effort. You will also be leveraging AI across the software engineering organisation. A great time to join. This will suit someone who has previously owned and can drive strategic decision making across a Software Engineering organisation. Genuine growth potential This role is UKI focussed initially, and has genuine growth potential with a road to VP, which would include owning engineering for UKI and EU products. Key Responsibilities for the Director of Software Engineering: * Own Software Engineering end to end: architecture, delivery, and lifecycle for UKI products * Drive revenue growth through differentiated capabilities, faster time to value, and commercial execution * Deliver high-quality, mission-critical, regulated clinical software with clear accountability for outcomes * Lead AI-first transformation across platforms, and engineering practices, improving velocity, quality, and cost to serve * Partner with Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Services, and Support to accelerate go-to-market, implementations, renewals, and expansion * Lead globally distributed teams with strong execution discipline and outcome-based accountability- headcount of 65+ across UK and India Skills & Experience for the Director of Software Engineering: * Proven director level ownership of Software Engineering covering workforce transformation, AI strategy & governance and global scale delivery * Strong commercial mindset with a track record of delivering growth for a software vendor/author and owning software portfolios of circa £100M * Experience delivering large-scale, regulated or mission-critical platforms * Demonstrated success leading AI-enabled or technology-led transformation * Strong cross-functional influence and stakeholder engagement skills with Customers, Product Management, Sales & Marketing, Support and Professional Services * Experience leading global, multi-time-zone teams, 70+ headcount * Knowledge of regulated software environments such as healthcare desirable * Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar (or equivalent experience) * OK with remote based role and occasional travel to international company offices and customer sites