Director Software Engineering

About the role

Are you passionate about leading large‑scale engineering organisations and shaping the future of research analytics through data, AI and modern platform engineering? You will partner closely with product, data, architecture, quality engineering, security, UX and commercial stakeholders to modernise platform capabilities and enable AI‑assisted, 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.
• Lead distributed engineering teams across frontend, backend, data and quality engineering.
• Hire, coach and develop high‑performing engineers, engineering managers and technical leaders.
• Drive planning, prioritisation and execution across multiple engineering teams and programmes.
• Maintain strong engineering standards for code quality, testing, release management, observability, security and operational resilience.

Required profile

• Significant experience leading engineering managers and distributed teams across multiple geographies and time zones.
• Proven track record delivering large‑scale, data‑intensive software products in production.
• Experience setting technical strategy and delivering technology roadmaps.
• Experience introducing AI‑assisted development practices across engineering teams.
• 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.
• Analytics‑driven systems, knowledge graphs and metadata‑rich datasets.
• AI‑enabled product capabilities such as summarisation, guided workflows, intelligent search or decision support.
• Designing APIs and data contracts to make platforms accessible to AI agents.

What we offer

• Flexible working hours.
• Wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals.
• Country‑specific benefits.