Tech Lead managing a full - stack team for an out - of - home media company. Collaborate with Product Owners and lead technical development for innovative solutions.
About the role
- Head of Software Engineering leading AI-enabled software development across Babcock’s Corporate Services. Transforming traditional engineering towards AI‑augmented and high‑automation software delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of software solutions across multiple business areas.
- Oversee a unified software development and assurance function, driving consistency, shared standards, and intelligent automation across engineering teams.
- Embed modern DevSecOps and AI Ops practices, ensuring agentic AI workflows are integrated into coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Grow capability across software, AI, and data engineering disciplines, building teams that confidently use AI tooling and automated development patterns.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, transparency, curiosity.
- Champion the adoption of software workflow tools and AI‑enhanced engineering pipelines across all our development teams.
- Lead and mentor team leaders, who in turn guide developers and quality engineers, ensuring each team effectively adopts AI‑powered tools and delivery practices.
- Work closely with senior stakeholders to align technical delivery, AI strategy, and digital transformation with wider business and IT objectives.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps and experience embedding AI‑assisted workflows within CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands‑on experience designing, implementing, and maturing DevOps, AIOps practices.
- High proficiency across multiple development languages.
- Deep understanding of modern engineering practices including agentic AI systems, code assistants, test‑generation AI, and autonomous delivery patterns.
- Extensive experience leading, coaching, and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams through cultural and technical change.
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex engineering concepts clearly to stakeholders at all levels.
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading – buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave
- ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year
- Flexible working options
- A dynamic working environment
- Single Private Medical Insurance
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