A great opportunity has come up at Betsson Group. We are now looking for a Head of Engineering for our Campaigns & Rewards Area.
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Responsibilities
• Build and lead a high performing, top class engineering organisation covering multiple teams, setting out proper strategies towards this goal.
• Support, mentor and coach the engineering managers and leads.
• Collaborate with the architecture team and actively support their direction to drive the technical vision and enable the future state architectural design of the domain.
• Work closely with your product counterparts to develop, support and execute on product roadmaps and towards shared goals.
• Champion technical initiatives for consideration in the product development roadmap.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the gaming industry, performing competitor analysis, staying up-to-date with trends, emerging technologies.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and collaboration within the team, promoting best practices in software engineering and agile methodologies.
• Drive the delivery of initiatives across the teams, ensuring that we are maximising the potential of our people and their delivery.
• Ensure the platform's reliability, security, and scalability by proactively addressing potential risks and performance bottlenecks.
• Manage engineering budgets, resources, and timelines effectively, delivering projects on time and within scope.
• Develop and implement metrics and KPIs to monitor platform performance, driving data-driven decision-making and improvements.
• Identify and address technical and process bottlenecks.
• Set an example in taking responsibility and ownership, which may also mean stepping into any missing role as and when may be required.
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Requirements
• Highly experienced in building and leading high performing engineering teams, with at least 2 years’ experience in a senior / strategic engineering leadership role.
• A strong background in software engineering, preferably having 10+ years’ experience working in engineering roles.
• Demonstrated experience in nurturing and coaching engineering leaders.
• Passionate about technology and how it can enable business growth and opportunities, in particular in how it satisfies user needs.
• Experience and understanding of agile practices and techniques for developing products.
• Confident working in a complex technical environment with hands-on experience working with highly available and high load transactional systems, with the ability to drive focus on performance, scalability and security.
• Experience in defining OKRs and KPIs, working with data to understand system(s) performance and the outcomes of product development.
• Proven ability to lead analyses and evaluations for complex decisions.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus.