Senior Engineering Lead

Description

Summary: This Senior Engineering Lead role involves shaping market-leading software for the construction industry, focusing on technical innovation, delivery, and people leadership within a global, award-winning company. Highlights: 1. Shape software affecting thousands of lives in the construction industry. 2. Lead technical innovation, delivery, and people within an award-winning company. 3. Drive digital transformation and growth with AI-first engineering practices. **Senior Engineering Lead** **Lisbon \- Hybrid** ***Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?*** Who are we? We are ranked as the UK’s \#1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end\-to\-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle. If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award\-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large\-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion. We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business. **Purpose** This role is responsible for ensuring that technical projects are completed accurately, within budget, and on time, meet the business objectives, and support the overall vision to transform the construction and maintenance industry through the use of our technology. You'll be a strong leader, working with Technical Architects and product teams, ensuring that market\-leading solutions are developed to high standards and Causeway retains a competitive edge in the market. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, your key areas of responsibility will include: * People Leadership * Technical Innovation * Technical Delivery **Key Responsibilities** **People Leadership:** * Lead by example, exuding positive energy and enthusiasm, inspiring others, encouraging teamwork and cooperation, and ensuring that team members live and breathe the company vision and values at all times. * Provide technical leadership and manage the teams so that all aspects of software development meet the highest standards to meet or exceed customer expectations in terms of functionality, quality, technology, and overall customer experience. * Responsible for the overall assessment, management, and development of product engineering teams and for supporting the achievement of product, quality, and financial objectives. * Manage departmental performance standards without compromising on service or quality, ensuring the achievement of maximum profitability and growth in line with the company vision. * Evaluate, coach, and develop team members to build confidence and capability and operate to the highest standards. * Ensure that company processes, standards, and policies are implemented consistently and that fairness, reasonable standards in the treatment of people, equal opportunities, and work\-life balance are maintained to create a high\-performing work environment and retain team members. **Technical Innovation:** * Take responsibility for own personal development, ensuring that knowledge and skills are up to date and maintained, including emerging trends, AI\-first engineering practices, and cloud\-native development. * Take responsibility for creating an environment of continuous learning and development for the teams, ensuring that the knowledge and skills of the team are up to date and maintained and that Causeway employs high\-quality software engineers. * Ensure that the Engineering teams are building market\-leading products and solutions that use the latest technologies, including AI\-native capabilities, and are aligned with the company vision. You will demonstrate the ability, as a strategic leader, to make the vision happen. * Continuously strive for innovative solutions and make suggestions for improvements that will provide benefit to the business in terms of improved efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity. * Champion Causeway's AI\-first operating model, embedding AI tooling across teams for development, specification, review, and delivery. **Technical Delivery:** * Manage product delivery and ensure that the engineering teams are building products that meet requirements, are scalable, and are easily maintained and supported. * Ensure that technical products are developed accurately, based on best practice standards, within budget and on time, and support the business objectives. * Build and manage high\-quality teams, approve work estimates, establish budgets, and communicate with the product owners and Engineering Leads to evaluate requirements and progress. * Develop a good understanding of the business needs to maximise opportunities. * Carry out research and cost\-benefit analysis and provide advice to manage business needs. * Identify, engage, and interact with decision\-makers at a senior level to understand new and emerging business opportunities and gather requirements. * Work with the security team to ensure that data security standards are met at all times. * Ensure that rigorous delivery management is implemented so that scope, change, time, quality, cost, and risk are tightly controlled, and proactive and timely updates to progress are made in Jira so that the business has access to timely and accurate performance information. * Work with Engineering teams to ensure that their technical implementation is technically sound, defect rates are minimised, and products are inexpensive to maintain and support. **Key Skills, Experience and Qualifications** **Essential:** * Previous experience in managing multiple engineering teams with responsibilities for developing and implementing the product strategy. * Experience in providing technical leadership to ensure that products and services are delivered in line with the architectural framework. * Experience in managing teams and delivering high\-transaction, multi\-tenanted, native cloud applications. * Experience in delivering projects that transform monolithic applications into a microservices architecture. * Experience in coaching Engineering Leads to enable them to optimise team performance while driving quality. * Hands\-on development experience with the ability to embed best practices into the teams. * In\-depth experience in Kanban, Agile, and AI\-first engineering methodologies and embedding them in engineering teams. * Articulate, with excellent communication skills and the ability to listen and provide answers. * A passionate individual who has the ability to change others' way of thinking. * Able to inspire and motivate teams towards the company vision, values, and goals. * Inspired by solving problems and with the ability to gather and assimilate information. * Excellent planning and organisational skills to successfully coordinate a high number of activities, with excellent time management, prioritisation, and the ability to remain calm and objective under pressure. * Tenacious, highly energised, passionate, and committed, determined to achieve amazing results and make an impact, delivering to high standards and delighting customers. * Degree level or equivalent education preferred in a relevant subject such as computer science, computer engineering, information management systems, software development, or business information systems. * Understanding of and enthusiasm for AI\-first engineering practices and the ability to drive their adoption across multiple teams. **Desirable:** * Experience working in supply chain, financial, or construction\-related technology would be advantageous. * Previous experience in enterprise IT and integration. * Experience of CI/CD. **What you get from us:** If you're looking to build an exceptional career with an award\-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition. Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well\-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work\-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices. **Our Values** We are**United**. As part of a team, we’re better together. We are **Agile**. Be the change, we’re on a journey. We are **Trusted**. Do the right thing, we own this. We are **Driven**. Get stuck in, we make it happen. Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year\-on\-year.