Head of Engineering - Platforms

Job Description:

Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the worlds leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo Japan and now present in over 145 countries and regions it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media CXM and Creative while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands people and society.

Were hiring a Head of Engineering -Platforms to work on a permanent basis from our office in London.

Role Purpose

• As the Head of Engineering for Platformyou will manage and mentor software teams delivering a combination of applications and platform services for use by end users and Development teams.
• You will be a strong advocate for the team and share practices ideas and successes with other product delivery teams.
• You will provide technical leadership across workstream discussions ensuring seamless collaboration where technical direction is required across multiple teams building applications over our platform.
• Working with Solution Architects and Developers you will actively participate in brainstorming and solution design sessions to address the needs and technical challenges facing those teams. You will help drive the team to agreed outcomes and a technical way forward.
• Working with the Product team you will be adept at solving business problems with software in the shortest sustainable lead-time and be able to explain technical solutions clearly and succinctly to business audiences and technical teams alike.
• Working with Architects and Engineering team you will create the Technical Vision and Roadmap for the Platform Team driving the focus on its objectives and progress against delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring team composition and skills are adequate line management of your team of Engineering Leads who will look to you as a mentor to develop their skills for regular 1:1s and as a coach to guide them through the software development lifecycle.
• Provide guidance to and coach and mentor the teams in modern web application software development practices with specific focus on platform services engineering
• Publish communicate and maintain the technical vision and roadmap for the Platform team
• Work with the Product team to ensure the user experience across aligns to the Product vision and meets acceptance criteria
• Work with the Engineering team to ensure the platform services are scalable resilient well documented and easy to consume and to maintain.
• Collaborate with other Technology functions (e.g. Architecture DevOps Security) across different geographies timezones and cultures to deliver secure reliable robust scalable code which can be built tested and deployed into Production using automation and CI/CD pipelines and Agile delivery practices.
• Lead the teams in best practice for good diagnostics debugging testing deploying and troubleshooting to drive quality and business value
• Work with Architecture to ensure solution design is reviewed effectively and is conformant with NFRs Security and Data Privacy guidelines
• Implement software engineering best practices with your peers within Engineering such as pair programming clean code CI /CD pyramid testing within a Scrum agile delivery frame

Skills/Qualifications

Candidate Profile

• Proven experience managing small software teams and mentoringengineersin enterprise web development and services development using loosely coupled systems.
• Highly experienced in agiletest drivensoftware development
• Passionate about writing well-crafted clean code and comfortable working in an agile environment
• Ability to write high-quality code across modern Javascript based programming languages and frameworks
• Knowledge and experience of delivering solutions using a microservice architecturewith RESTful protocols and frameworks such as Express NestJS and GraphQL.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply emerging programming languages frameworks and platforms
• Knowledge and experience of implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Knowledge and experience of hosting in cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS
• Working experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Good communication and collaboration skills essential

Essential Skills

• Good experience of working in a Microsoft Azure environment
• Extensive experience in building applications and web services in MERN (Mongo Express React Node) using Webpack Typescript GitHub (Experience with Redis Okta OpenID a distinct advantage).
• Extensive experience of code quality test CI/CD and package managers such as Jest Lint Brigade and Helm
• Experience of Kafka n8n and event driven architecture
• Experience of leading teams in delivering software and platform serives
• Good working knowledge of GraphQL APIs (federation using Wundergraph) ABAC solutions (Symphonic or equivalent) CMS platforms (Strapi or equivalent)

Desirable

• Working knowledge of API gateways (Kong or equivalent) ABAC solutions (Symphonic or equivalent) CMS platforms (Strapi or equivalent)

• Working on Developer Portals or documentation relating to shared development services
• Experience of Docker and/or Kubernetes an advantage.
• Working knowledge of DataBricks/Spark (using Python and associated frameworks)
• Working knowledge of Azure Data Lake and Azure Blob storage

What we offer

• This is a permanent role

• The team is based from the London office in NW1 and work on a hybrid basis

• As well as a competitive salary youll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

At Dentsu we embrace diversity and inclusion valuing the unique perspectives and contributions of every individual. We believe that diversity fuels creativity and innovation benefiting our employees partners and communities.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of race ethnicity nationality religion gender gender identity sexual orientation age disability marital status or any other protected characteristic. Beyond recruitment we strive to create an environment where everyone feels respected supported and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

We recognize the importance of work-life balance and are open to discussing flexible working arrangements for all roles. If you need reasonable adjustments due to a disability or medical condition during our recruitment process please contact us at quoting the reference number of the role that you are applying for. Your needs will be handled with respect and confidentiality to ensure an inclusive and accessible experience.

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