Engineering Director - IT Consulting Business

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an exciting engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. An opportunity for you to help transform organisations and problem domains and to use your voice to drive change.

Must have experience of working in consultancy!

As Engineering Director, you will operate as a strategic advisor, engineering leader, and trusted partner to our clients, leading discovery and inception phases to define problem spaces, shape vision, and create measurable business outcomes.

You will bring a consultative, outcome driven mindset, combining deep technical expertise with commercial awareness to influence senior stakeholders, unlock value, and drive transformation at scale.

Technical Excellence

• Provide technical leadership across complex programs of work, ensuring architectural integrity and alignment with best practices.
• Drive adoption of Quality Cloud Engineering across client engagements using modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, cloud platforms, and quality engineering.
• Lead technical direction for large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Embed AI and GenAI capabilities into engineering solutions, including designing and integrating AI-driven features, automation, and decisioning systems where appropriate.
• Provide technical leadership on AI-enabled architectures, including LLM integration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and intelligent workflows within enterprise systems.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (eg code generation, test generation, copilots) to improve developer productivity and software quality.
• Champion and implement modern engineering practices including test automation, continuous delivery, and cloud-native architectures.
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native architectures.
• Knowledge of quality engineering practices including test automation and continuous testing
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation - Understanding of developer experience optimisation and tooling.

Client Partnership

• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders to drive technology transformation. You will lead high-stakes strategic workshops, forums, and negotiations, driving outcomes and consensus among senior leadership.
• Manage complex client relationships and negotiations, ensuring alignment and exceeding expectations.
• Facilitate technical discovery workshops and strategic planning sessions.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and improvement across client engagements.
• Act as a trusted advisor for technical strategy and implementation approaches.