Engineering Director

1 day, 11 hours ago
Full-time
Executive
Software Development
Arbor

Arbor

Arbor is the leading cloud MIS provider in the UK, empowering schools and MATs to collaborate effectively, save time, and enhance pupil achievement through centralized data management and insightful analytics.

IT Services
51-250

Description

  • Lead an organization of 7+ teams and directly manage Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers.
  • Coach and mentor direct reports to strengthen leadership capability and professional growth.
  • Partner with Product Directors and VPs to align roadmaps with commercial goals, customer needs, and technical strategy.
  • Help shape the broader engineering function’s maturity and ways of working.
  • Promote a customer-outcome mindset so teams solve the right problems, not just ship features.
  • Balance commercial delivery with support needs, technical debt, and architectural risk.
  • Provide clarity and direction when priorities or paths are unclear.
  • Use data to monitor team health and drive continuous improvement.
  • Act as an escalation point for incidents and issues, and ensure preventative actions and post-mortem learning.
  • Contribute technical input to strategic direction, investment planning, and scenario modelling.

Requirements

  • Exceptional people management experience, including experience managing and growing managers and senior individual contributors.
  • Experience leading multiple teams while collaborating on standardised ways of working and organisational growth.
  • Demonstrated use of data and metrics to support continuous improvement rather than control.
  • Proven ability to partner with and challenge Product leaders to balance commercial value with technical sustainability.
  • Experience working with urgency in high-autonomy, high-ambiguity environments.
  • Experience leading teams through organisational shifts, process changes, or rapid scaling.
  • Demonstrated success building high-performance engineering teams without losing speed or autonomy.
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to advocate for technical excellence and influence senior stakeholders.
  • Strong foundation in modern software architecture and technical credibility with senior individual contributors.
  • Understanding of how AI-first engineering will change the SDLC, ideally with examples of leading through change.

Benefits

  • £120,000+ salary.
  • 32 days holiday including Bank Holidays, made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 company-wide days over Easter, Summer, and Christmas.
  • Life assurance at 3x annual salary.
  • Comprehensive wellness support through AIG Smart Health, including 24/7 virtual GP access, mental health support, counselling, and health checks.
  • Private dental insurance with Bupa.
  • Salary sacrifice pension with Scottish Widows.
  • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave at 20 weeks full pay, and paternity leave at 6 weeks full pay.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Dedicated professional development budget for CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships.

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