Engineering Director

Engineering Director with a background spanning engineering, master data management, AI & architecture & platform and experience is sought by a pioneering professional services scale up based near Nottingham.

Operating as the number one technical decision maker this Engineering Director will work closely with the board to re-align and embed technology innovation with business impact to drive rapid growth.
This Engineering Director will use their existing JavaScript and Azure stack knowledge to set delivery practices across observability, DevOps, agile and security whilst using key skills in building LLM agents to drive a growth mindset around AI and spec driven development.

This role would suit someone who is a disrupter by nature who by working with board level stakeholders can quickly absorb and understand the business challenges and objectives building a team that can deliver ground up solutions which gets results in hours, not months.

In return this Engineering Director can expect complete autonomy to drive change, a clearly defined pathway to CTO and board understanding that success in this position if by far the biggest vehicle to business growth:

This candidate should have most of the following attributes:

- A strong technical background spanning platform, architecture and engineering gained working in scale up environments
- A background in full stack JavaScript (node, next, react) engineering
- Solid Azure architecture
- A disruptor and radical thinker who is constantly challenging and rewriting the norm
- Understanding of master data management
- A growth mindset on AI with the ability to build LLM agents and working knowledge of AI tooling - Cursor, Claude Code etc)
- A business impact, delivering focussed mindset
- Experience operating at an engineering leadership or director level
- Demonstrable thirst for learning across both business and technology

This Engineering Director near Nottingham will receive:

- Starting salary of up £135,000
- Bonus scheme
- Equity
- Long term hybrid working
- Flexible working hours
- Clearing defined progression pathway to CTO
- 25 days holiday
- Private pension
- Fast paced, autonomous culture
- Regular remuneration reviews

So if you who looking for a platform to disrupt, build and scale in a fully autonomous, high successful scale up then please apply now for further details.

Engineering Director
Nottingham(hybrid)
Engineering director, headless architecture, AI, ML, product, engineering, master data management
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed