Head of Technology

Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment.

We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment we play an essential role in the Groups goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide.

We are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritize flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges.

Recognizing that everyone brings their own strengths backgrounds and new perspectives we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of.

The Role

As a Head of Technology youll be working closely with your partners to prioritize create and own roadmaps for your Engineering teams to work from. Youll be working with your technology teams across different locations and time zones to create a vision for your area of responsibility.
Youll promote a culture of openness and clear feedback. Youll enable your teams to deliver high quality scalable software and emphasize a focus on Operational Excellence and help solve cross-vertical problemsby designing and developing capabilities that fulfil overlapping needs.

What Youll Be Doing

Delivery:

• Develop strategies with other heads to reduce bottlenecks and inefficiencies while promoting collaboration

• Produce and deliver a strategic technical vision while identifying gaps in ownership and negotiating wholl own them going forward

• Define and deliver area strategy/vision for our next 2 years

• Engage with colleagues inside and outside technology and with different ways of working to ensure that complex and cross-functional initiatives are delivered dependencies are managed and continuous improvement is prioritised.

• Responsible for ensuring effective operational support in conjunction with all partnersintegrated with our Service Operations support organisation and customer support

People:

• Attract the best talent into the tribe

• Assure that our talent is continuously developed motivated and engaged ensuring that high performers are continuously challenged and provided with new opportunities and poor performers are managed up or out;

• Responsible for championing every success from the Tribe

• Drive a culture of continuous improvement within the Technology teams and evolve our agile/scrum delivery processes.

Stability and performance:

• Assure the right performance and stability of all the components and systems;

• Liaising with partners and regulatory bodies to establish and follow an effective release process

What Youll Bring

• A proven track record building and effectively delivering through teams in a collaborative manner

• Experience defining and executing a strategic vision working collaboratively and in partnership with our stakeholders on shared goals

• Focus on continuous improvement and stakeholder management to ensure that the department operates effectively

• Experience defining and implementing software delivery best practices agile delivery methodologies and proven track-record of continuously improving delivery pace while maintaining quality

• Experience delivering technology solutions for internal customer facing products in a high energy ambiguous environment

• Experience supporting teams with software systems in production including on-call support with a relentless focus on improving the stability availability and performance of those systems

• A natural leader of people and a strong team player with a collaborative style; a proven track record building and effectively delivering through teams.

• Strong communicator with a logical structured clear credible and mature style. Capable of engaging non-technical audiences of different levels.

• You work collaboratively and in partnership with our stakeholders on shared goals. Consistently seeks out and facilitates the sharing of others ideas and perspectives and positively impacts the achievement of desired outcomes.

• You understand other perspectives and is not hesitant to adapt the approach to achieve a successful outcome. Mostly effective in managing change through applying insights from others and lessons learned from others.

• Creates a climate where people are curious resilient determined learn and adapt; handles and manages crises effectively; anticipates and shows the way forward during setbacks; builds energy in others to stick with it/to stay on track/push through.

• Demonstrates a strong commitment to the development of talent; recommends and supports development activities in preparation for future roles; invests time to coach and mentor others; builds and proactively manages development to ensure a pipeline of talent is in place; identifies and takes proactive steps to resolve current and future gaps in the talent pool and succession plan; is a talent magnet capable of identifying attracting selecting and developing top talent including and not shying away from the talent that goes beyond their capabilities; finds and attracts diverse talent who have the critical capabilities needed by the organisation; works to create an organisation that is an attractive place to work.
  

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So ... are you in

Equal opportunities

At Blip we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds ways of thinking and working to apply. We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race disability age gender identity sexual orientation and religion.
Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you dont have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

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