# Head of Software Engineering

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Woking
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

The Head of Software Engineering leads the engineering function within Customer Experience Solutions, owning the build, release and operational quality of McLaren's client-facing digital platforms.

You will own end-to-end engineering delivery across the customer-facing platform estate, including the website, configurator, owner app, client portal, stock platforms and booking tools.

Key responsibilities include:

- Acting as the technical authority for partner and supplier work

- Setting, publishing and enforcing engineering standards across every contributor

- Owning secure engineering practice within the software development lifecycle

- Establishing and running a squad-based delivery model

- Building the internal tech lead layer

- Reducing dependency on external engineering capacity

- Partnering with Enterprise Architecture, Product Management, Programme and Delivery, and Core Technology

The ideal candidate will have:

- Substantial experience leading software engineering functions that deliver customer-facing web, mobile and integration platforms at scale

- A proven record of holding delivery partners to a technical standard

- Depth in modern engineering practice, including continuous integration and delivery, automated testing, code review discipline, release management and production operations

- Practical command of secure development practice

- Experience establishing squad-based agile delivery and a tech lead layer

We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, including:

- Structured career development framework

- 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday

- Enhanced company pension scheme

- Discretionary annual bonus award

- Private medical insurance and health cash plan

- Life assurance benefit

- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years' service

- Generous parental leave policies

- A range of wellbeing initiatives

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- technical leadership
- secure development practice
- continuous integration and delivery
- automated testing
- code review discipline
- release management
- production operations
- squad-based agile delivery

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