Director of Software Engineering – Research Analytics

About the role

As an Engineering Director supporting SciVal, you will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for delivering a scalable, secure, and data‑intensive analytics platform. You will partner closely with Product, Data, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Security, UX and commercial stakeholders to shape technical strategy, modernise platform capabilities, and enable AI‑assisted and agent‑ready experiences for customers.

Key responsibilities

• Lead SciVal’s engineering strategy and technical direction in partnership with Product, Data and Architecture.
• Define and uphold architectural standards across search, data, analytics, APIs and platform integration.
• Hire, coach and develop high‑performing engineers, engineering managers and technical leaders.
• Own workforce planning, succession planning, performance management and resource allocation.
• Drive platform modernisation, consolidation and adoption of shared technology foundations to improve scalability, reliability and cloud‑cost efficiency.

Required profile

• Significant experience leading engineering managers, leads and distributed teams across multiple geographies.
• Proven track record delivering large‑scale, data‑intensive software products in production.
• Demonstrated success setting technical strategy and delivering technology roadmaps.
• Excellent communication, planning, influencing and stakeholder‑management skills.

Required skills

• Large‑scale data ingestion, transformation, indexing and query optimisation.
• Search, discovery and graph‑based data relationships.
• Knowledge‑graph and metadata‑rich dataset engineering.
• AI‑enabled capabilities such as summarisation, guided workflows, intelligent search or decision support.
• Designing APIs and data contracts for AI‑agent accessibility.

What we offer

• Healthy work‑life balance with flexible working hours.
• Wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals.