Head of Engineering 

Commercial Technology & Change 

Permanent | Full Time

White City, London | Hybrid

Hiring range: £110,000 - £120,000

Please note:  This is to assist candidates in assessing their suitability for the role. The range does not represent a longer term salary commitment for the role.

For more information please email TalkingCareers@itv.com

Your work matters to millions.

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution. 

When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people. 

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

 Your impact sends ripples. 

The team

Millions of people use the products we build. We're customer focused, informed by data and have a product mindset, using state-of-the-art cloud-first technology. Iterating and evolving daily. In a fast-changing world, we not only make sure our systems work effectively but our Technology teams are spearheading the transformation to a digital-first business. There’s never been a more exciting time to join us. 

The role

This is a senior role within the Commercial Technology and Change engineering team, responsible for shaping and building our engineering capability across one or more delivery teams. A key aspect of this role is to define and communicate a clear vision of what these teams need to achieve and the ability to articulate this vision to others - set direction and establish goals that align with the CT&C's mission and objectives.

The role will entail but not be limited to:

Capability Development

• Manage our engineering capability across multiple development initiatives
• Work with other heads of department to agree team the nature and composition of your teams

Financial / Budget

• Support the wider CT&C engineering/architecture budget/cost control/forecasting processes
• Champion CT&Cs local finOps approach and align that across our budget controls

Supplier Governance

• Procurement, selection and technical management of our technical suppliers and partner relationships, holding them to account for their productivity, quality and commitments and ensuring a long-term successful partnership

Technical Direction and Delivery

• Align with and deliver on CT&Cs engineering strategy and vision
• Define and implement an efficient software engineering process across a number of delivery teams and align their output with our product roadmap, architecture, qa procedures and service management objectives
• Collaborate with the wider leadership team to implement our standard ways of working
• Proactively identify and enact product change to achieve service improvements and champion service quality:

Service Management & Operations

• Embed a service-level focused culture with DevSecOps and devOps at its heart, and ensure the app is well supported

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

Deep understanding and experience of key areas of responsibility identified for the role, such as Personal, Leadership & Culture Skills. Delivery Management and a deep understanding of Agile/Scrum Methodology.  Vendor & Financial Management

Technical Skills:

• AWS Expertise: In-depth knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and experience with a variety of AWS services, such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, and others relevant to the project.
• UI & UX:
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in tools like CloudFormation or Terraform to automate and manage infrastructure.
• DevOps Practices: Familiarity with DevOps principles, continuous integration, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Security Knowledge: Understanding of DevSecOps principles and AWS security best practices, and the ability to implement and oversee security measures within the infrastructure.
• Scalability: Experience in designing and implementing scalable and resilient architectures to handle varying workloads.
• Observability: Experience implementing highly available maintainable and supportable SaaS services featuring comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting and observability features

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• Knowledge of the UK broadcast industry & broadcast/OTT advertising market 
• Knowledge of digital marketing and advertising industry
• Technical skills:
• Experience with Serverless compute (such as Lambda and Step Functions)
• GraphQL API servers and client libraries (e.g. Apollo).
• Knowledge of other programming languages (e.g. Java, Python)

ITV is for everyone.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com.  

Find out more about applying with a disability.

* There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it. 

ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including

• Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life
  

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Closing date: 6^th December 2024