Vice President, Global Engineering Greater London, United Kingdom Area + 1 more

The Company is seeking a Vice President of Global Engineering to lead its engineering organization and turn business and technology strategy into reliable, high-quality software delivered predictably. The role oversees platform engineering, infrastructure, scalability, security, reliability, modernization, and technical debt, while setting delivery practices and performance measures. The leader will develop a distributed, multi-country organization, manage workforce planning and budgets, and build strong management capability and career pathways. They will partner closely with product and commercial leaders, communicate technical risks and investment needs to executives, and guide the responsible use of AI and emerging technologies. Candidates should have significant experience leading large engineering organizations as a manager of managers, along with a record of improving delivery, engineering quality, and operating practices. Strong expertise in high-volume distributed systems, real-time processing, platform reliability, and cost management is required; experience with marketplaces, streaming, platform modernization, and M&A integration is valuable. The role also calls for experience leading distributed teams and developing senior engineering leaders, plus the technical judgment to make pragmatic architectural decisions. Successful candidates will be commercially minded, data-led, customer-focused, and effective communicators who can build trust, navigate complexity, and balance delivery speed with long-term platform health.

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Acast