Head of Discipline: Software Engineering

Exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking agile delivery team and work with cross functional teams. This role is ideal for someone who is technically strong, collaborative, and driven by continuous improvement, with a clear interest in leadership. This digital business consultancy is known for its innovative, out-of-the-box thinking and offers a flexible, work-hard-play-hard culture that encourages collaboration, creativity, and professional growth!

Primary Responsibilities: • Managing complex client engagements, software delivery portfolios, and multi-disciplinary teams. • Understand client environments and future business needs and how the organisation’s offerings could address those requirements. • Identifying leads and opportunities within existing client environments (relationship-driven growth within existing clients). • Lead engagement with General Manager and/or Account Manager regarding potential leads. • Own and manage relationships with nominated client individuals to drive engagement expansion within accounts. • Assist Business Development in external environments through discipline-specific pre-sales activities. • Recommend ideal client engagement models aligned to quality, control and team culture. • During project delivery, provide oversight and quality governance across engagements, including risk management, issue resolution, and client expectation management aligned to QA and governance processes. • Provide input into Digital Consulting strategy. • Ensure alignment and strong collaboration with Shared Services (HR, Finance, Business Development, and General Management) to drive discipline performance. • Scale and mature discipline offerings and competency frameworks to ensure sustainable capability growth. • Develop and maintain discipline capability, skills, and career pathways aligned to competency models. • Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and represent the discipline externally in the industry. • Financial, Pipeline & Operational Accountability • Own and deliver against assigned annual sales, Discipline revenue, and gross profit targets • Define and own Headcount & Skills plan. • Responsible for Discipline pipeline and resource allocation. • Track performance across key levers including headcount, utilisation, GP, pipeline, and other commercial metrics. Required Qualifications • Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field • ±10 years of professional software development experience (enterprise environments) • Experience in delivering multiple successful projects in client-facing environments. • Proven experience leading enterprise software engineering teams and large-scale delivery. • Strong background in software architecture, cloud technologies, DevOps, modern engineering practices, and delivery governance. • Experience in business development, pre-sales, client relationship management, workforce planning, and recruitment. • Leading through influence rather than authority. Technical Skills • Strong experience building enterprise applications using .NET (.NET Core / .NET Framework, C#) • Solid experience with Web APIs and RESTful services • Hands on experience with modern front end frameworks (Angular, React, Blazor; mobile variants a plus) • Strong understanding of clean code, design patterns, SOLID principles, and TDD / unit testing • Experience with SQL Server and T SQL • Exposure to Azure DevOps, cloud platforms (Azure), CI/CD, and containerisation is a strong advantage • Contribute across the full software development lifecycle • Design and deliver clean, secure, scalable, and testable solutions • Lead and mentor developers to deliver quality outcomes efficiently • Collaborate closely with architects, analysts, and clients • Drive continuous improvement in tools, patterns, and ways of working • Shape technical decisions aligned to client and business needs Tech Stack & Practices: • .NET enterprise architectures • Clean Architecture, Domain Driven Design • Secure SDLC & OWASP principles • API patterns, microservices, OpenAPI / Swagger • Front end best practices (web & mobile trade offs) • Authentication & Authorisation (OAuth2, JWT, Azure AD / Identity Providers)Azure, IIS, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps (experience levels may vary) You’ll work on meaningful, complex projects, with talented people who value collaboration, growth, and engineering excellence. We support our developers in growing their skills and stepping into leadership—while building solutions that make a real impact.