Head of Software Engineering

Hands-on Head of Software Engineering with full SDLC ownership and a strong DevOps focus. Responsible for leading and evolving end-to-end development across internal and customer-facing systems, spanning both legacy and modern platforms.
This working leadership role manages a team of ~12 (developers, QA, scrum master, and implementation specialist) while remaining technically involved-reviewing code, setting standards, and driving automation and best practices. A key opportunity to bring structure, consistency, and a mature DevOps culture to a .NET/C# environment and elevate overall engineering capability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the full SDLC from planning and requirements through development, QA, release, and ongoing support.
• Provide clear, consistent reporting across delivery, quality, and support to ensure full visibility of progress and system health.
• Design, build, and continuously enhance CI/CD pipelines to automate build, integration, and deployment.
• Drive mature release management with predictable, low-risk deployments, rollback capability, and robust change control.
• Champion a DevOps culture focused on shared ownership, automation-first practices, and strong feedback loops across teams.
• Establish and embed unit testing as a core engineering practice.
• Define and implement a comprehensive test strategy covering unit, integration, regression, and automation.
• Lead QA resources and integrate quality gates into the pipeline, ensuring testing is continuous rather than a final step.

Job Experience and skill required

• Tertiary qualifications
• 9+ years in Software Development with a demonstrable progression into technical leadership.
• Hands-on experience of building SDLC processes from an immature baseline into a repeatable practice
• Experience with .NET / C# ecosystems, across both legacy and modern codebases
• Strong DevOps background: CI/CD pipeline design, release automation and configuration management.
• Cloud experience is highly beneficial, particularly the ability to plan and lead a migration
• Demonstrated experience defining and implementing test strategy, including unit testing and test automation

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