Senior Director of Engineering (Connected Trip Experience & Data)

Join as a Senior Director of Engineering, where you will lead the Connected Trip Experience, foundational capabilities, and data within the Marketplace Business Function. You will partner with Product & Data, embed Gen AI into our customer experience, and continually raise the maturity and capability of the organization.

Responsibilities

• You will also drive alignment and buy-in from both tech and non-tech stakeholders, lead and inspire your engineering function, and create a learning environment. - Lead the Connected Trip Experience, Foundational capabilities, and Data within the Marketplace Business Function, ensuring alignment with product and data objectives. - Evolve and execute the technology strategy to improve tech maturity, scalability, agility, and efficiency, ensuring future-proofing. - Drive alignment and buy-in from both tech and non-tech stakeholders by effectively influencing and collaborating at all levels. - First hand experience of building customer centric experiences at scale on AI, Mobile, and web platforms in partnership with Product - Deep engineering and technology leadership background who can influence and shape our technology narrative including engineering best practice, AI adoption and modernisation - Demonstrable experience of partnership with senior stakeholders in and out of technology across matrix organisations - Demonstrable experience at building and growing a collaborative, high trust and focused organisation - Experience of leading technology organisations at scale - Demonstrable experience of leading organisations involved in data & AI products & services - Building a DevOps culture - Demonstrable experience of setting, leading and influencing both the Engineering and Business strategy to the medium and long-term - Well versed in Engineering Craftsmanship - Demonstrable experience of working in Agile environments and more importantly an Agile culture and ethos - Strong commercial acumen - Demonstrable experience of building, shaping and leading a cross functional
• Engineering function or business unit at scale (150/200+ people) - Experience with managing and coaching teams of senior tech leaders including building and growing teams - Excellent communication skills - Independent, pragmatic and proactive work attitude - Experience with large scale platforms and high traffic (100,000+ visitors per day), preferably E-commerce sites or marketplace companies - Be able to deputise for the VP of Engineering - Cloud based technologies - Extensive years of Tech Leadership experience - Be humble and human - Must understand technology and have a proven track record of designing and building high quality web and mobile applications especially high volume consumer facing applications