VP /Director of Engineering

Job Purpose About RWS RWS is a global leader in content, translation, and intellectual property services. With more than 60 years of experience, RWS helps the world's top brands grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language. The company combines proprietary technology with deep human expertise to deliver high-quality, compliant, and scalable solutions across industries such as life sciences, technology, finance, and legal.About GenerateRWS Generate builds the content technology that some of the world's biggest companies rely on to create, structure and publish the content behind their most complex products, from the largest names in automotive to leaders in aerospace, technology and financial services. Alongside this established business we are scaling a fast-growing AI business, providing the high-quality data and expertise that powers some of the most advanced AI models in the world.Job PurposeWe are hiring a Director of Engineering to lead engineering across this portfolio: scaling the AI-native products and services that have real momentum, while modernising, simplifying and returning to growth a set of established products with enviable customer bases. But you will be technically credible, with well-formed views on modern software product development, and comfortable forming your own view of a system or a team when required.The role reports to the VP of Engineering and takes on an organisation of several established engineering teams and their leaders, spread across Europe.LocationThis is a hybrid role, ideally based in Dublin, where you will work alongside senior product leadership from our Dublin office part of the week. Some travel to other RWS sites and to team locations across Europe will be part of the job.Lead and develop the engineering leadership team. Several engineering leaders and their teams will report to you. You will provide clarity, coaching and strategic direction, and set a high standard for leadership itself: clear ownership, honest prioritisation, decisions made at the right level, and managers who grow their people rather than just run their projects.Set the engineering direction for the pillar. Own engineering quality, reliability, scalability and security posture across the portfolio, and champion scalable architectures, AI-first design and secure-by-default engineering, aligned with RWS's long-term technology strategy.You will make sure engineering scales with it: hiring well, keeping teams small and empowered, and protecting quality and pace as demand increases.You will drive their modernisation: simplifying architectures and portfolios, retiring what no longer earns its keep, and reinvesting the capacity into growth.Champion agile, product-led ways of working. We organise around small, empowered, outcome-owning teams: a product lead and an engineering lead with a handful of strong engineers, on a you-build-it-you-run-it basis. Champion AI-native engineering practice. Ensure teams deliver dependably through lightweight governance, data-driven progress tracking and honest communication. Connect engineering to product and commercial outcomes. Work daily with product leadership to shape roadmaps around customer value, and be accountable for what your teams ship, run and retire.Represent the pillar across RWS engineering. Work with our central platform, data and security functions so teams operate within clear guardrails, and influence roadmap trade-offs, investment decisions and long-term architecture evolution in strategic forums.Requirements:A track record of leading multi-team software product engineering organisations through change: developing leaders, reshaping teams, and lifting delivery in both growth and legacy settings.Deep, genuine experience of agile product development done well. You have formed your own views by using these tools and watching teams use them, and you have a clear sense of where they genuinely change the economics of software delivery.Experience modernising established enterprise software: simplifying products and architectures incrementally, managing technical debt deliberately, and doing it without breaking the trust of large, long-standing customers.Commercial instincts. You understand that engineering choices are portfolio choices, and you are comfortable weighing investment, cost and customer commitments alongside your product peers.A leadership style rooted in coaching, psychological safety and accountability, with a track record of scaling engineering organisations while keeping teams healthy. Life at RWS -If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you'll love life at RWS. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Recruitment Agencies: RWS Holdings PLC does not accept agency resumes. LI-MS01, #LI-HybridJob SummaryJob ID: 2026-6489# of Openings: 1Category: IT/Software DevelopmentBanding: 8