Director Software Engineering in Southampton

Are you a skilled leader with a desire to lead a team solving highly complex business problems? Do you enjoy leading cross-functional teams in different countries?

About The Business

At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and many more accelerate their own digital transformation.

About The Role

As Director of Engineering, you will be part of the delivery leadership team responsible and accountable for Cirium’s ability to ingest, store, process, and deliver the data that drives both internal and external products and services. Utilizing your leadership experience, you will lead engineering teams, which could be in both our UK and India locations, with internal and external customers across the globe. This is a tactical and strategic role, reporting to the VP of Technology and sitting on Cirium’s Tech Leadership Team (TLT), that is pivotal to our ability to operate as an efficient and effective Tech organization.

Responsibilities

• Providing strategic direction for multiple teams of Software Engineers and Data Engineers in the UK and India responsible for ingesting, processing, and storing data that drives over $100M of revenue.
• Managing and developing the skills of the managers on the Data Engineering teams.
• Actively coaching and driving the organization towards a high-performance culture.
• Identifying opportunities for improvement and standardization of our pipelines and processes and working with Business and Tech stakeholders to deliver initiatives with tangible value.
• Tracking and reporting on the progress of projects and initiatives to senior leadership using a data-driven approach.
• Understanding in-depth the cost profile and key cost drivers of the Data Systems org and actively seeking opportunities to introduce cost efficiencies.
• Bringing thought leadership into the Tech Leadership Team (TLT) to deliver cross-functional programs of work designed to consolidate and standardize ways of working, as well as improving our operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Experience in a technical role on an Engineering team and understanding the workload, challenges, and best practices when it comes to data engineering.
• Ability to speak knowledgeably and with authority to both technical and non-technical audiences about Data concepts.
• A passion for and experience in nurturing a High Performance mindset within Engineering teams that yielded demonstrable productivity gains and positive customer outcomes.
• Experience of managing Engineering teams and at least 2 years managing Managers.
• Ability to coach and mentor engineers in a global workforce across all experience levels and a strong track record of building and leading teams through change.
• Understanding how to partner with Business and Tech stakeholders to gain support for complex, technical programs of work.
• Experience in delivering complex change programs centered on continuous improvement and tech debt remediation.
• A bias for action and the ability to balance BAU work with Project work to ensure that your teams and your estate consistently improve.
• Experience with Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, and everything in-between and knowing which methodology is right for each use-case.
• An enthusiastic evangelist of Agile methodology with experience coaching teams towards adoption and improvement of Agile processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey vision, milestones, and progress to diverse, global teams across all levels of the organization.
• A passion for learning about different approaches to solving problems and the ability to apply your learning to real-world situations.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country-specific benefits.