Shape the Future of Engineering at IRIS
We're looking for an exceptional engineering leader to take ownership of a strategic pillar within our Global Accountancy division.
As Director, Engineering (Level 7), you'll play a critical leadership role in driving engineering excellence, delivery predictability, platform modernization, and AI enabled innovation across our product portfolio. This is a highly visible leadership position where you'll influence engineering strategy, partner closely with Product and Architecture, and help shape the future direction of our technology organisation.
This role offers a unique opportunity to impact how IRIS delivers value to thousands of customers while helping define the next generation of cloud-native, AI-enabled accounting solutions.
What You'll Be Responsible For
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Leading a strategic engineering function within the Global Accountancy business
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Driving engineering excellence across delivery, quality, scalability and operational performance
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Partnering with Product, Architecture and Commercial teams to deliver customer-focused outcomes
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Establishing consistent engineering standards, governance and software development practices
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Driving platform efficiency, automation and AI adoption across the software development lifecycle
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Leading and developing high-performing engineering teams across multiple products and technologies
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Ensuring secure, resilient and compliant SaaS platforms
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Shaping long-term technology strategy, modernization and cloud transformation initiatives
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Acting as a technology thought leader across IRIS and with key external stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
You'll likely be:
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A current Director, Senior Director or Head of Engineering operating within a complex software organisation
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An experienced SaaS technology leader with a track record of scaling engineering teams and platforms
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Deeply familiar with modern cloud technologies, particularly AWS and/or Azure
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Comfortable operating across engineering, product, commercial and operational environments
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Experienced in Agile, Platform Engineering, DevOps and Site Reliability practices
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Passionate about developing people, building capability and creating high-performing cultures
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Commercially astute and customer focused
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Excited by the opportunities AI presents to transform engineering effectiveness and customer outcomes.
Why Apply?
This is an opportunity to:
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Influence engineering strategy at one of the UK's largest software companies
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Lead transformation at scale
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Work alongside senior leaders across Engineering, Product and Commercial teams
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Drive innovation across cloud, platform and AI initiatives
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Develop and mentor engineering teams that support thousands of businesses and accounting professionals globally.
If you're ready for your next leadership challenge and want to make a significant impact across IRIS Engineering, we'd love to hear from you.
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
INDAD
As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
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Phone: 0344 815 5500
