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About the Role
This is a pivotal new leadership role supporting the Director of Software Engineering by bringing consistency, accountability, and technical excellence to platform evolution. The role will help shape how Sky Business builds, integrates, tests, operates, and continuously improves its software platforms during a period of significant transformation and growth. The focus will be on platform modernization, engineering standards, technical design integrity, and the adoption of modern engineering practices that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective customer-facing platforms, with an emphasis on leveraging the Salesforce platform.
Responsibilities
- Inspire, coach, and lead engineering teams with clear ownership, quality focus, and a strong engineering culture.
- Own the platform evolution engineering strategy and roadmap aligned to Sky Business priorities.
- Establish modern engineering practices across design, build, test, release, and operations.
- Assure technical design quality, engineering standards, and solution integrity across squads and partners.
- Ensure solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and meet functional and non-functional requirements.
- Lead pragmatic platform modernization, reducing legacy risk while balancing resilience, cost, and delivery.
- Partner with Architecture, Product, Delivery, and Operations.
- Get the best out of Salesforce capabilities for Sky Business, shaping solutions that delight customers.
- Ensure engineering embraces meaningful AI capabilities at speed and scale.
Requirements
- Experienced in customer management, billing, subscription, provisioning, data, or integration platforms.
- Experience leading engineering with the Salesforce platform.
- Experienced engineering leader with strong software engineering and platform transformation background.
- Able to lead teams through ambiguity, change, prioritization challenges, and competing demands.
- Strong coach and mentor, developing technical, leadership, and delivery capability across teams.
- Builds inclusive, collaborative, learning, high-performing cultures focused on accountability and improvement.
- Experienced in complex environments where availability, scale, security, and customer impact matter.
- Strong grounding in software engineering, systems integration, SDLC, automation, release, and operations.
- Comfortable working with strategic partners, system integrators, and mixed delivery models.
- Strong experience of agile, scaled delivery, and modern operating models.
- Proven track record in platform modernization, legacy reduction, technical debt, and sustainable roadmaps.
- Appropriate right to work in the UK.
- Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.
Skills
- Salesforce platform
- Software engineering
- Platform transformation
- Agile
- Scaled delivery
- Modern operating models
- Platform modernization
- Legacy reduction
- Technical debt management
- AI capabilities
Location
- Osterley
- Livingston
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 3 days in the office per week
Experience Level
- Experienced engineering leader
Benefits
- Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
- Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
- Private healthcare with mental health support
- Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
- Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
- Sharesave and Tech schemes
- A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
About the Company
- Sky is a leading media and entertainment company connecting millions with entertainment, sports, news, and arts through innovative products and services.
- Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day.
- All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues, and society.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
- We're a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates.
- We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate.
- Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.