Engineering Director

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £120k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Arbor Education

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-12

Education • B2B • Software

Arbor Education is a rapidly expanding company dedicated to transforming the way schools operate by freeing staff from administrative tasks and enhancing collaboration. Utilizing a Management Information System (MIS), Arbor Education provides tools to improve school processes and educational outcomes for over 5,000 schools. Their mission-driven team, consisting of ex-teachers, education technology engineers, and specialists, is passionate about providing effective solutions to improve the educational sector. Founded in 2011, Arbor Education is driven by a commitment to innovation and the well-being of teachers and students, along with a dedication to diversity and inclusion in its workforce.

📋 Description

• Lead an organization of 7+ teams to deliver high-impact results, directly managing Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers. • Foster a culture of mentorship and coaching, focusing on the professional growth and leadership capabilities of your direct reports. • Partner with Product Directors and VPs to align roadmaps with commercial goals, customer needs and technical strategy. • Contribute to the maturity of the entire engineering function, collaborating with peers and leading by example, such as leverage the best of the shifting AI landscape • Instill a "customer outcome" mindset, ensuring teams are solving the right problems rather than just shipping features. • Balance the value of commercial delivery with the necessity of managing support, technical debt, and architectural risks. • Navigate and resolve issues pragmatically, providing clarity and direction to your teams when paths are unclear. • Oversee the holistic health of your teams through effective use of data to drive tangible improvements • Serve as a point of escalation for issues and incidents across your teams, ensuring sustainable preventative measures and post-mortem learning. • Support and input into our strategic direction, providing a technical perspective for investment planning and scenario modeling.

🎯 Requirements

• Exceptional people management experience, with a proven track record of managing and growing managers and Senior individual contributors • Extensive experience leading multiple teams whilst collaborating with peers on standardised ways of working and organizational growth. • Demonstrable examples of using data and metrics as a "carrot" for continuous improvement rather than a "stick" for management. • Proven ability to partner with and effectively challenge Product leaders to balance commercial value with technical sustainability. • Examples of operating with a sense of urgency, coupled with the ability to thrive in a high-autonomy, high-ambiguity environment. • Real world experience of leading teams through organizational shifts, process changes, or rapid scaling challenges. • Demonstrated success in building high performance engineering teams, without losing speed or autonomy. • Expert communication skills, capable of advocating for technical excellence, building credibility with engineers and "challenging upward" to influence direction. • A strong foundation/background in modern software architecture, with the ability to maintain technical credibility and trust with senior individual contributors. • An understanding of how AI-first engineering will change the SDLC and how to lead through change where there is no playbook, ideally with examples

🏖️ Benefits

• A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more! • 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas • Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary • Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks • Private Dental Insurance with Bupa • Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay • 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life! • Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching) • All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you • Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success • Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc) • Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year • Dog friendly offices!