Head of Engineering - Optimisation & Control

The Flex platform is built on autonomous Chapters, which are collections of specialists focused on delivering a core service or business outcome, defined by the unchanging nature of the energy business (independent of technology, hardware, or regional differences). A Head of Engineering leading a Chapter is a senior leadership role combining strong product thinking, engineering judgement, operational awareness, and people leadership. They manage managers and senior individual contributors, helping teams own their product surfaces, make sound trade-offs, and deliver reliably.

This role requires influencing beyond its formal remit, spotting cross-team patterns, clarifying ownership and decision-making, and driving initiatives to turn recurring issues into visible actions with owners, dates, and measures of success. Ultimately, they maintain the technical vision for their specific area, ensuring services are appropriately owned, maintained, and aligned with Flex's sustainable growth.

• Managing the leads.

• Maintaining the technical vision for a given area.

• The overall team architecture

• Ensuring the services in that area are owned and maintained appropriately.

• Ensuring that product features are built in a way that scales, is cost-effective, and is in line with the vision for a product area.

• Ensuring the appropriate level of quality and resilience, with a specific focus on reducing system incidents and improving stability.

• Ensuring appropriate tech debt is prioritised to support sustainable delivery.

• Potentially managing a squad (team) as well.

You’ll be a strong fit if you have experience leading engineering teams across multiple squads, teams or product areas in a complex product environment.

• A collaborative product and engineering mindset: you care about customer outcomes, product strategy, technical quality and the people needed to make the work real.

• Strong judgement in ambiguity: you can separate urgent from important, make trade-offs explicit and help teams move without pretending all uncertainty has disappeared.

• A track record of influencing beyond your reporting line and team, building trust with senior stakeholders and helping teams reach decisions when ownership is shared.

• A bias for action and improvement: when you see a recurring issue, you turn it into the smallest useful action that starts making the system better.

• Reliability in driving initiatives: people can trust that when you take ownership, the work keeps moving, dependencies are managed and decisions are followed through.

• Strong people leadership practice, including coaching, direct feedback, performance management, delegation, psychological safety and development of future leaders.

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