Head of Software Engineering, ELS

Leads a multidisciplinary Innovation Engineering capability, accountable for translating emerging technologies into scalable, enterprise-ready products and platforms. Sets strategic direction, prioritization, and execution standards across innovation squads, ensuring alignment with business objectives, product strategy, and enterprise architecture.

Drives technical excellence, accelerates experimentation-to-production cycles, and builds organizational capability across engineering, data science, and AI-delivering measurable commercial and operational impact.

• Define and execute the innovation engineering strategy, aligning with ELS business priorities, product roadmaps, and enterprise technology standards

• Set multi-quarter priorities, investment focus, and capacity planning across innovation initiatives

• Act as a senior technical authority across innovation domains (AI, platforms, emerging tech), influencing enterprise-wide direction

• Lead delivery of complex, cross-functional innovation programmes, from concept through to scaled deployment

• Drive experimentation, prototyping, and MVP development, accelerating time-to-value and adoption

• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and production-grade, aligned with enterprise architecture and governance

Job Family: Technology

Job Category: Engineering
Career Architecture Role: Software Engineer