FREE ACCESS
5,000–10,000 jobs/day
See all jobs on Scoutfield
Search thousands of fresh jobs every day.
Discover
- Fresh listings
- Fast filters
- No subscription required
Create a free account and start exploring right away.
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
Use this summary to align your resume positioning with the role.
Demonstrates expertise in leading and scaling engineering organizations, focusing on technical quality, reliability, and scalability. Proven ability to translate business priorities into technical execution while fostering collaboration across diverse teams and ensuring operational readiness.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Engineering LeadershipOrganizational DesignCloud PlatformsProduction Systems ManagementTechnical Communication
ATS Keywords
Tailor your resumeApplicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills
Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsInfrastructure ManagementEngineering QualityScalabilityOperational ReadinessDelivery PredictabilityTeam DevelopmentArchitecture StandardsTechnical Risk Management
Soft Skills
Decisive LeadershipAdaptabilityHigh StandardsOwnershipCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
Cloud PlatformsSaaSAI/ML PlatformsInfrastructure ToolsObservability Tools
Industry Keywords
Engineering OrganizationTechnical LeadershipOrganizational HealthPerformance ManagementIncident Learning
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudDistributed Systems
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead Radiant's engineering organisation and be accountable for execution, technical quality, reliability, and scalability
- Lead software engineering, platform security engineering, and architecture across an organisation of 30–35 engineers, scaling toward 150–200+
- Partner with Product, Customer, Infrastructure, SRE, Operations, PMO, and wider technology leadership
- Hire and scale the engineering organisation and build a leadership layer across Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, and senior technical leaders
- Own engineering hiring, performance, leadership development, succession planning, and organisational health
- Design and evolve the engineering organisation across teams, sites, and regions
- Own engineering strategy, operating model, and execution aligned with company and product objectives
- Translate business priorities into technical plans, sequencing, investment decisions, and delivery commitments
- Establish ownership, decision-making, and accountability across engineering teams
- Drive predictable, high-quality delivery and identify and address execution risk
- Ensure systems are production-ready, reliable, observable, maintainable, and supportable
- Strengthen collaboration with infrastructure, SRE, and operations, including handover and incident learning
- Set standards for architecture, engineering quality, security, scalability, and operational maturity
- Own the roadmap jointly with Product, owning how and when work is delivered
- Serve as senior escalation point for critical technical, architectural, and delivery decisions
- Improve engineering maturity and processes while maintaining delivery momentum
- Represent Engineering in executive and partner discussions and join customer escalation reviews
- Stay close to the work through design review
Requirements
What you’ll need- Significant experience leading and scaling engineering organisations of 20+ engineers through multiple stages of growth
- Experience managing managers and hiring and developing Engineering Managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders
- Proven experience evolving a smaller engineering group into multiple teams with clear ownership, leadership, and consistent delivery
- Experience designing organisational structures, team boundaries, and operating models for increasing scale and complexity
- Demonstrated success improving delivery predictability, engineering quality, throughput, and organisational effectiveness
- Strong technical background across modern software engineering, distributed systems, cloud platforms, or infrastructure-heavy products
- Experience owning production systems where reliability, observability, scalability, and operational readiness are critical
- Comfortable working closely with Product, Infrastructure, SRE, Operations, and Commercial teams
- Experience operating across multiple teams, locations, or time zones
- Ability to communicate technical risk, trade-offs, and opportunity clearly at executive level
- Experience with cloud or infrastructure platforms, scaled SaaS, AI/ML platforms, or infrastructure-heavy technology businesses strongly preferred
- Adaptability, decisive leadership, high standards, and ownership
Benefits
Comp & perks- 25 days of annual leave
- Competitive benefits
- Participation in the company shares program
- Enhanced parental pay & leave
- Private medical insurance via Bupa
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
- Dedicated learning time for new skills, projects or interests
- Open communication and regular feedback
- Results-focused work culture emphasizing quality, ingenuity and creativity