Senior Director, Engineering
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
Senior Director of Engineering (Level 8)
Location: Remote (UK) ¦ Team Size: 130+ Engineers ¦ Reports to: CTO
About IRIS Software Group
IRIS Software Group is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, powering critical operations for over 100,000 customers in 135 countries. From payroll and HR to compliance and education, our solutions keep businesses, schools, and organisations running smoothly, every day, for millions of people. We’re a certified Great Place to Work and recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women, with a culture built on trust, inclusion, and delivering impact at scale.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead a global organisation of 130+ engineers delivering multiple cloud-native and legacy SaaS products.This is more than a technology role. You’ll define and deliver the engineering vision, embed high-performance practices across the software development lifecycle, and build a collaborative, product-led engineering culture that delivers features our customers love, faster and more reliably. You’ll be a 2-box thinker: balancing short-term delivery with long-term strategy, modernising legacy platforms while driving innovation in customer-centric solutions.
What you’ll do
- Lead and inspire a global engineering team, creating clear career paths and fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
- Partner with senior Product leaders to ensure engineering and product work seamlessly together to deliver customer-first, commercially impactful solutions.
- Drive transformation of engineering practices, using metrics and data to improve quality, velocity, and predictability.
- Oversee architecture for both cloud and legacy systems, introducing AI/ML, automation, and modern frameworks where they add real value.
- Champion rapid experimentation, innovation, and strong feedback loops from customers to engineering.
What you’ll bring
- Proven leadership of large engineering organisations (100+ engineers) across multiple locations.
- Strong technical foundation in cloud-native SaaS and architecture (multi-tier, microservices, event-driven, API-first).
- Experience embedding product–engineering collaboration and transforming engineering culture.
- Commercial mindset - able to make technical decisions that deliver business and customer impact.
Please note:
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
About IRIS
As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
Why work for IRIS?
The Benefits
Developing your career
We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:
Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.
Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.
Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee’s development needs and providing a commitment to a ‘learning culture’ which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.
We’re committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.
Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.
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