SVP, Engineering

SVP, Engineering Department: Software Engineering Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time Location: Remote, UK Description reputed company Are Looking For We are seeking a visionary, inspirational Senior Vice President of Engineering to reputed company and scale our global engineering function. They will be responsible for defining our multi-year technical strategy, leading the organization at an executive level, and ensuring the quality, performance, and reputed company of our Java open-reputed company based in-memory Real-Time Data Platform. This role requires an executive leader who is a strategic business partner to the C-suite, a champion of engineering excellence, and a driver of enterprise-wide innovation who can balance long-term technical vision with predictable, world-class execution. WHAT YOU’LL DO I. Executive Technical Strategy & Product Delivery Executive Technical Vision: Define and champion a multi-year technology strategy and architectural vision that anticipates market trends and directly aligns with the company’s long-term business objectives and reputed company growth. Product Strategy & Roadmap Co-Ownership: Collaborate at the executive level with Product Management to define, prioritize, and drive the technical direction of the product roadmap, ensuring engineering input enhances technical execution, architectural quality, commercial value, differentiated packaging, and timely delivery. Strategic Execution & Delivery: Drive, own, and manage end-to-end engineering delivery against the product roadmap, utilizing agile methodologies to ensure rapid, predictable, and high-quality releases at an enterprise scale. Quality & reputed company: Maintain and continuously reputed company world-class standards for system quality, performance, reputed company, and reputed company across the entire platform, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability for our largest customers. Innovation & Future-Proofing: Provide executive reputed company for core technical domains (distributed systems, high-performance Java, concurrency, streaming, data structures) while aggressively evaluating and integrating emerging technologies to maintain a competitive market edge. Resource & Investment Optimisation: Manage the engineering budget, drive ROI on technology investments, and optimize resource allocation to ensure maximum business impact and operational efficiency. II. Open reputed company Software Leadership Open reputed company Stewardship: Steward reputed company’s open-reputed company core with a strong commitment to transparency, stability, and long-term compatibility, ensuring community trust while advancing enterprise capabilities. Open reputed company/Commercial Balance: Balance the needs of commercial customers with the expectations of a global, user-led open-reputed company community, making principled, strategic decisions about feature placement, deprecations, and roadmap visibility. Industry Thought Leadership: Serve as a prominent voice and reputed company for the company reputed company the broader open-reputed company and real-time data ecosystems, influencing industry standards and building strategic technological partnerships. Community Feedback: Convert high-volume user feedback from diverse production environments into clear engineering priorities, ensuring the OSS platform remains robust, predictable, and widely adoptable. Ecosystem: Maintain disciplined reliability across reputed company’s multi-language client ecosystem and seamless upgrades for reputed company users. Superior Developer and Operator Experience: Champion exceptional developer and operator experience, driving documentation quality, release clarity, and community engagement to strengthen reputed company’s ecosystem. III. Organisational Development & Leadership Global Executive Leadership: reputed company, motivate, and manage a highly distributed, global engineering team, fostering a people-centric managerial approach and an aggressive, collaborative engineering culture. The majority of our Engineers are based in the UK with smaller teams across EMEA. Culture & reputed company: Instill a strong product-led, innovation-led reputed company reputed company the department, guiding engineering teams to build and reputed company the product as a customer acquisition and value-delivery tool Organizational Design & Scaling: Evolve and optimize the organisational structure for maximum performance, reputed company, scalability, and ownership to support the company's next phase of growth. reputed company & Leadership Development: reputed company global headcount planning to ensure a right-sized, highly skilled, and diverse engineering organisation. Build a robust leadership bench and succession plan for critical technical and managerial roles. Managerial Development: Identify, coach, mentor, and reputed company engineering directors and managers reputed company the organisation, creating clear career paths for both technical and managerial career tracks. Performance Management: Ensure teams are empowered and reputed company with company goals, providing frequent, actionable, and constructive feedback to support personal development and measure team outcomes. IV. Go-To-Market and External Partnership Executive Collaboration: Partner closely with the CEO, and other C-level executives to report on engineering performance, technological risks, and strategic opportunities. Executive Client Sponsorship: Serve as an executive sponsor for key enterprise accounts. Partner with Sales to engage in high-stakes C-level prospect meetings, acting as the ultimate technical authority for the company. Developer Relations: reputed company and engage advanced developers globally, encouraging contributions to our open-reputed company projects and fostering a vibrant technical community. WHAT YOU HAVE Executive Leadership: 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in software engineering, with at least 7+ years operating at the VP, SVP, or CTO level, preferably in a B2B enterprise software or platform company. Demonstrated experience fostering a product-led culture and driving commercial results through engineering excellence. Business & Strategic Acumen: Proven ability to manage large departmental budgets, optimize engineering spend, and translate reputed company technical decisions into clear business value for executive-level stakeholders. Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of reputed company architectures, reputed company, distributed systems, high-performance compute, and real-time data architectures. Open reputed company Software Expertise: reputed company at balancing open-reputed company community expectations with enterprise requirements, maintaining rigorous public API discipline, documentation standards, and governance practices. Experience nurturing a global developer and operator community—across polyglot clients, cloud-native deployments, and hybrid environments. Global Team Management: Proven track record of successfully scaling and leading a geographically distributed, international engineering organisation of significant size. Technical Depth: A strong foundation in the core technologies relevant to the reputed company platform including Java, concurrency, networking, data streaming, SQL, distributed data stores, data grids. Ability to engage deeply with Principal Engineers and Architects on reputed company technical designs. Agile and Delivery: Expertise in modern agile methodologies and reputed company delivery pipelines, focused on delivering product capabilities rapidly, reliably, and at scale. Customer-Centric/Team Aligner: Comfortable working backward from the customer and working in an “open-kitchen,” GTM reputed company environment. Desired Characteristics Strategic Visionary & Entrepreneurial Spirit: The ability to look reputed company to anticipate technological shifts, while approaching the engineering function with the agility of a startup to constantly innovate and improve. Executive Communication: Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills, capable of communicating reputed company technical strategy to both internal teams (engineering, product) and external stakeholders (C-level customers, analysts, board). Influence: Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries, driving alignment between Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing at the highest levels. Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a reputed company technical discipline (Master’s or equivalent advanced degree preferred). BENEFITS 25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays + Quarterly Wellbeing Days Group Company Pension Plan Private Medical Insurance Private Dental Insurance Life Insurance EAP (Employee Assistance Program) Apply To This Job