Head of Engineering

Job description

Job Summary: the employer is looking for a Head of Engineering to lead our engineering organization and drive the technical direction, execution, and growth of our technology teams. This is a senior leadership role for someone who can operate at both the strategic and technical level — shaping engineering practices and architecture while working closely with leadership, product, clients, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality software solutions. What you own The engineers. Everyone technical at the employer reports into you: hiring, the technical screen, performance, growth, and the decision that someone is not working out. Today they are spread across client accounts, and the account sets the priorities. You set the standard. The bar. What the employer will and will not put its name on. AI standards, workflows and best practices, architecture review, code review, testing, security posture, infra, tools, and what qualifies as an exceptional working experience with a client. Today this is held informally by whoever is most senior on an account. Your job is to make it a standard, to coach and mentor toward it, and to hold it across every account whether or not you are in the room. Who is on what. Staffing across accounts, including the bench. You own the assignment decisions and the utilization that follows from them. The technical relationship with the client. You are…