Head of Software (Java / React)

Your new company
You will be working with a well-known organisation focused on building large-scale digital systems and advancing the country's long-term digital capabilities. Its teams work on cutting edge platforms, cloud infrastructure, data innovation and emerging technologies to strengthen the nation's overall digital ecosystem. The organisation emphasises trust, resilience and forward-looking engineering to support a secure and future-ready digital environment.

Your new role

• Shape the technical vision and strategic direction for your engineering team, ensuring alignment with broader organisational goals.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners and external stakeholders to refine priorities and steer product roadmaps toward incremental, high-impact delivery.
• Develop and maintain long-range technical plans, updating architectural and infrastructure roadmaps to meet evolving product and business requirements.
• Drive engineering excellence, establishing practices, frameworks, and tools that elevate code quality, reliability, security, and overall team effectiveness.
• Mentor and support engineers through regular performance and growth conversations, offering constructive guidance to strengthen both individual and team capability.
• Champion valuable engineering initiatives, proactively identifying opportunities to advance technical quality, innovation, and positive real world impact.

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience working on large scale software systems with an awareness of how software behaves and performs as usage grows.
• Comfortable with modern web development practices, including familiarity with modern tech stack such as Java/Typescript and Next/React.
• Ability to guide technical decisions and support teams effectively, demonstrating strong interpersonal skills alongside technical capability.
• A mindset that values thoughtful engineering, collaboration, maintainability, and building solutions with long-term quality in mind.
• An interest in meaningful, mission-driven work, along with experience supporting and developing others typically through coaching or team-level guidance.

What you'll get in return
In return, you'll be part of an organization who values their employees. This is an individual contributor role where you will have plenty of high-profile career exposure and structured career growth.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or email [email protected] for a confidential discussion on your career. Referrals are welcome.
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