Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering

London, United Kingdom

Type: Full-Time (hybrid working – home and Holborn office)

Salary: Competitive

Longevity Partners is seeking a seasoned and visionary Head of Engineering to lead the design, coordination, and scaling of digital products central to our consultancy-as-a-service offerings. This individual will be instrumental in driving the architectural, operational, and strategic roadmap for the firm’s tech stack - particularly the Impact Service Platform (ISP) and related AWS-hosted platforms.

This is a hands-on leadership role with significant influence across DevOps, architecture design, database integration, team management, and product direction. You will coordinate a rapidly growing engineering team and play a pivotal role in enabling scalable, high-performance solutions that support our sustainability consultancy mission. The Head of Engineering role is strategic, with considerable anticipated career growth expected for a successful candidate.

The Head of Engineering will report to the Chief Product Officer.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure

• Lead and manage DevOps operations across AWS services, including Amplify, EC2, Lambda, Route 53 and S3.
• Own CI/CD strategy and implementation, ensuring robust automation and deployment pipelines.
• Oversee and refine ETL processes to support real-time and batch data flows between internal platforms and client-facing services.

System Architecture & Engineering Leadership

• Define and own system architecture strategy, ensuring resilience, scalability, and security across multiple applications.
• Ensure platform modularity and service orchestration using modern best practices in microservices, serverless frameworks, and containerisation.

Data Engineering & Database Coordination

• Design and manage robust integration strategies between relational (SQL) and nonrelational (NoSQL, e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases.
• Guide platform schema design for ESG data tracking, analytics, and AI/ML readiness.

Cybersecurity

• Embed appropriate industry-standard cybersecurity principles into the development and operation of Longevity technology products.
• Lead on operationalising Longevity’s ISO27001-compliant Information Security Management System and contribute to its periodic review and audit.

AI Tools & Technologies

• Realise the benefits of AI in software development, identifying new tools and technologies and embedding as appropriate to the development team’s ways of working.

Work with the Chief Product Officer, Head of Data, and AI/ML Engineer to design, prototype, test and deploy proprietary AI tools appropriate to scaling real estate sustainability solutions.

Product & Strategy Contribution

• Collaborate with Product Managers and senior stakeholders to align technical decisions with business goals, especially for the ISP, BIU, and Policy Tracker platforms.
• Act as a technical advisor, contributing to business cases, feasibility, and roadmap development for new product features and AI-integrated consulting tools.

Agile Delivery & Scrum Contribution

• Champion agile best practices, driving planning and delivery in Jira.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective sessions in coordination with product and design leads.

Team Leadership & People Management

• Directly manage and mentor a small but growing, cross-functional team of developers with a roadmap to scale.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, code quality, and continuous improvement.
• Guide recruitment and onboarding of additional technical hires.

Ideal Candidate Profile Technical Skills

• Proven experience with AWS services (including Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, EC2, Amplify).Advanced proficiency in backend (Python, Node.js) and frontend (TypeScript, React) technologies.
• Deep understanding of modern database technologies and data integration methods.
• Strong grasp of CI/CD tools and practices (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and serverless architecture.

Professional Experience

• 8+ years in software engineering, with a strong track record in technical leadership and architecture.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams in agile environments.
• Background in SaaS platform development; sustainability or ESG software domain is a plus.

Soft Skills

• Exceptional strategic thinking with the ability to influence product direction.
• Excellent communication skills comfortable collaborating across disciplines and with senior leadership.
• High ownership mentality with a passion for clean, maintainable code and scalable solutions.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to lead transformative projects in a mission-driven sustainability firm.
• Ownership over core elements of Longevity’s platform evolution.
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
• Competitive compensation, private health benefits, pension contributions, and cycle-to-work scheme.

Interview Process

The successful candidate will be required to pass three stages of interview and submit a strategy assessment for review. Candidates will be required to submit their assessment prior to being invited to attend Stage 2. Subsequent to the conclusion of Stage 3 and prior to any offers being made, candidates may be required to attend formal interviews with board members and investors of Longevity Partners.