Dentsu

is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s 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.We’re hiring a

Head of Engineering

to work on a permanent basis from our office in London.As a Head of Engineering, you will manage and mentor software teams delivering to specific product areas, with particular focus on the Technical/Development Leads.

- You will provide technical leadership across workstream discussions, ensuring seamless collaboration where technical direction is required across multiple teams building applications over our data platform.

- 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.

Ensuring team composition is adequate, hiring to fill gaps and line management of your team of Development Leads (onshore and offshore), who will look to you as a mentor to develop their skills 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 data engineering.

- Facilitate continuous product and process improvements, assuring appropriateness and feasibility of proposed solutions as well as the continuous delivery of production software which improves the way we do business.

- Work with Product and Engineering teams to help scope, plan and estimate the technical roadmap, aligning it to broader business goals and helping to forecast delivery timescales

- Work with Solution Architects to ensure solution design is reviewed effectively, and is conformant with NFRs, Security and Data Privacy standards.

- Foster constructive debates between Product, Engineering and UX teams to create scalable, client focused solutions.

- Support the management of relationships with 3rd party suppliers from a technical standpoint, working with the Engineering Leads, Solution Architects and Product team to maintain effective partnerships.

- Encourage the teams in best practice for good diagnostics, debugging, testing, deploying, and troubleshooting to drive quality and business value.

- Strong working knowledge of Azure Databricks/Spark (using Python and associated frameworks) Privacera and SQL

- Strong working knowledge of Azure Data Lake and Blob storage

- Strong experience of building data reporting and visualisations using PowerBI and/or Tableau

- Experience in application development with proficiency in Python or JavaScript frameworks

- Passionate about writing well-crafted clean code across modern programming languages and frameworks

- Comfortable working in an agile environment

- Ability to quickly learn and apply emerging programming languages, frameworks, and platforms

- Proven experience managing small software teams and mentoring engineers

- Industry experience working with Data platforms is essential,

- Strong experience of dimensional data modelling, data pipeline development and data engineering in support of web applications.

- Proven experience leading small software teams and mentoring engineers

Experience in building applications in MERN (Mongo, Express, React, Node) using, Webpack, Typescript, GitHub (Experience with, Redis, Okta, OpenID a distinct advantage).

- Experience of code quality, test, CI/CD and package managers such as Jest, Lint, Brigade and Helm

- This is a permanent role

The team is based from the London office in NW1 and work on a hybrid basisAs well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.Inclusion and DiversityFor us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.London

Brand:Full time

Contract Type:Permanent#