Job Description

End Date

Thursday 30 July 2026

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid WorkingThe purpose of the Engineering Lead is to support the Lab leadership and the teams within their area to deliver against the strategy and their delivery commitments. Colleagues in these roles must come from an Engineering background, and this position represents the conscious decision of an Engineer to progress down the management track of the Y-shaped model. This allows these colleagues to start building up the broader set of skills required to operate in a engineering management position, not all of which will be developed under the Software Engineer role. However, they will remain deeply technical, providing technical guidance to teams and making sure that they make the right technology choices, though the broader set of responsibilities will often (though not always) take them away from actual coding on a very regular basis.

• Must have

  AI Leadership, Agentic AI, Engineering Leadership

• - Develops and/or delivers budget plans for own area with guidance from senior colleagues.

• Provides input into the development of compliance policies, develops underlying procedures and monitors their implementation for area of responsibility within the organisation.

• Takes responsibility for developing and delivering a key element of the organisation's data management system.

• Takes responsibility for implementing formal development frameworks for a substantial department, while informally coaching and mentoring others throughout the organisation and investing in own personal development.

• Identifies shortcomings, then suggests and implements improvements to existing business practices, while developing and delivering projects or a workstream within the organisation's change management programme with guidance from senior colleagues.

• Takes responsibility for developing and implementing IT Security policies for a broad area within the organisation.

• Manages the development and/or operation of knowledge management system with guidance from senior colleagues.

• Develops and/or delivers a plan for a specific area of responsibility by managing others.

• Sets longer term objectives and takes responsibility for implementing and coordinating performance management systems for a substantial department within the organisation.

• Analyses and evaluates the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develops and amends as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues and/or supervises activities performed by a product development/specialist team.

• Identifies and evaluates complex expertise-led solutions against a range of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs.

• Develops tactical plans for optimisation of resources and assets being managed within a given area or department.