'Empower Teams to Create Impactful Solutions'
Join us as our Head of Engineering and lead the way in crafting innovative, scalable solutions for a global audience. We're looking for a dynamic leader who can seamlessly bridge technical expertise with strategic vision, driving the technical direction of the agency across web and mobile platforms. If you're passionate about architecting cutting-edge products, mentoring talented teams, and ensuring technical excellence, this could be the perfect next step for you. You'll be working closely with senior leadership, spearheading solutions architecture, and playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of our digital agency. Ready to make an impact?
Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 (Depending on Experience)
Location: 3SC UK Office, Bournemouth
Hybrid Role: Minimum of 2 days a week on-site
Employment Type: Permanent / Full-Time (Job Share Opportunities Available if Applicable)
About Us
At 3 Sided Cube, we’re all about using technology to make a positive impact on the world. Since 2009, our talented team has been working closely with amazing organisations like the American Red Cross, UNHCR, Vodafone, and Global Forest Watch, creating apps and digital solutions that truly make a difference. We’re a passionate bunch who love to collaborate and think outside the box. Our culture thrives on curiosity and creativity, where every idea counts, and we embrace challenges as opportunities to innovate. Together, we’re on a mission to change millions of lives for the better—one app at a time.
Key Responsibilities
As the Head of Engineering, you will:
- Lead Technical Strategy: Drive the agency’s technical direction, ensuring solutions align with business objectives and client needs.
- Architect Robust Solutions: Oversee the design and implementation of scalable solutions across web and mobile platforms, collaborating with project teams for informed decisions.
- Mentor & Develop Teams: Guide and support technical team leads across various domains, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Engage in Commercial Endeavours: Collaborate with commercial teams to drive our technical response during proposals and pitches, effectively communicating complex concepts to clients.
- Ensure Technical Governance: Establish and uphold coding standards and best practices across projects, promoting security, quality, and compliance with industry standards.
- Optimise Processes: Continuously assess and refine internal tools and workflows, identifying opportunities for increased efficiency and productivity.
- Oversee Security & Compliance: Work with our Platform team to ensure AWS infrastructure is secure and cost-effective, maintaining relevant certifications such as ISO & Cyber Essentials.
Skills & Qualifications
What we're looking for:
- Agency Experience: Industry experience within digital agencies is essential, showcasing a proven track record of successfully leading technical teams in fast-paced, client-driven environments.
- Educational Background: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is desirable but not essential.
- Technical Leadership: Extensive experience in solutions architecture and technical leadership roles, with knowledge of software development across multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, frontend frameworks, PHP, Node.js, and AWS.
- Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Proficient in AWS, focusing on performance optimisation, cost control, and security measures to ensure efficient cloud operations.
- Team Management: Proven abilities in managing and mentoring diverse technical teams across various domains, cultivating a high-performing engineering culture that values collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to ensure seamless communication and collaboration across technical, creative, commercial and operational teams, aligning efforts to achieve shared goals.
- Technical Governance: Experience in establishing and maintaining technical governance, enforcing coding standards, and best practices to deliver high-quality project outcomes.
- Strategic Thinking: Leadership focused on aligning technical solutions with long-term business objectives, contributing to the overall technical strategy and supporting commercial goals.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication and presentation skills, translating complex technical concepts into clear, non-technical language for a range of audiences.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Experience liaising with senior leadership, project teams, and external stakeholders, demonstrating emotional intelligence to foster positive relationships and manage conflicts effectively.
- Process Improvement: Proactive in reviewing and optimising internal tools and workflows to enhance efficiency and productivity within the development cycle.
- Security Compliance: Deep understanding of AWS security measures and compliance with industry standards and certifications, including ISO and Cyber Essentials, to ensure data protection and client trust
Benefits
Flexibility at Its Best: Hybrid working or fully remote working options, flexible hours, and a remote working budget of £250 for your ideal home office setup
Time to Recharge: 23 days of holiday, with an additional day for each year of service up to 28 days, plus the opportunity to buy up to 5 additional days of leave annually!
Invest in Your Growth: A personal development budget of up to £1000 per year for training courses, books, and conferences.
Making a Difference: 3 days off every year to volunteer for a 'for good' organisation, plus a birthday donation to a charity of your choice.
Wellbeing: Unlimited access to our OpenUp platform, a Cycle to Work scheme, and complimentary Friday lunches on us
Company Pension Scheme: Our salary sacrifice scheme gives you the option to pay in up to 10% of your salary with Cube contributing up to 8%
Enhanced Parental Leave: Including 14 weeks of full paid maternity leave and 8 weeks of full pay for secondary caregivers.
Vibrant Workspace: Enjoy a fun, pet-friendly office with a fully stocked kitchen, recreational facilities, and free parking.
Celebrating our Culture & Success: Regular team events including remote activities, beach cleans, summer BBQs, and an annual Awards Ceremony to celebrate all things Cube!
DEI at Cube
3 Sided Cube is an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who all share a passion for making the world a better place. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, and any other aspect which makes us unique.
We can’t change millions of lives for the better without celebrating the diversity of those lives, and fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce within 3 Sided Cube is one of the ways in which we do that.
We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please reach out to us about potential reasonable adjustments.
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