Head of Engineering

**Job Title: Head of Engineering**

**Salary: Competitive Salary + Bonus + Company Car**

**Location: Hybrid working, home & BCA Coimbra (monthly visits)**

**Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 40 hours**

**Job Status: Permanent**

**_Who we _**_are_

Constellation Automotive Group is the largest vertically integrated digital car marketplace in Europe, combining the leading digital brands across the segments of consumer to business, business to business and business to consumer.

**British Car Auctions (BCA)**: The leading end to end fully digital B2B used car marketplace across the UK and Europe supported by its own in-house fulfilment and logistics services

**cinch**: is the market leading online used car dealership in the UK. cinch aims to take the faff out of buying a used car, offering the consumer a friendly way to search for and buy a quality-checked used car fully online.

**WeBuyAnyCar**: The UK’s largest digital vehicle buying service. The quick, easy, safe and convenient process that has helped over 2.5 million customers to sell their car.

**Marshall Motor Group**: 162 dealerships across the UK representing 26 leading manufacturers offering New and Approved Used cars and commercial vehicles, with services including vehicles maintenance, servicing, and repairs.

**The Role**:
We’re looking for a visionary Head of Engineering to lead our Engineering Teams, providing strategic direction and driving operational efficiency. Your leadership will help shape our long-term strategy, ensuring that we have the right talent, processes and culture to succeed, while ensuring we deliver on our immediate commitments. Aligning technical initiatives to ensure we achieve our business goals _sustainably_.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Guiding multiple engineering teams within a business domain, ensuring that our tech stack and solutions are lean, agile, future ready and scalable.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders and colleagues across Constellation, including Product and Design, ensuring alignment and collaboration.
- Drive innovation by exploring and implementing emerging technologies, and contribute to the company's strategic direction.
- Mentor and support Technical Leads and Engineers, focusing on their professional growth and well-being. Implement robust career development plans, regular 1:1s and feedback.
- Partner with the talent acquisition team to identify, interview, and onboard top engineering talent, ensuring our team continues to grow in both skill and diversity.
- Be a key player in shaping and maintaining a diverse, inclusive, and innovative engineering culture that resonates across the entire organisation. Fostering a collaborative environment that supports hybrid ways of working.
- Establish and monitor success metrics, including delivery timelines, team efficiency, and the adoption of new technologies.
- You will be accountable for both team effectiveness and quality output, ensuring team alignment to outcomes. You will measure the success of your team through achieving business outcomes sustainably.

**What you’ll bring**:

- A track record of growing and building highly effective teams. Experience managing managers and leading large teams. You think big and are future thinking. You inspire others to try new things.
- You have deep technical knowledge and experience with modern tech stacks and development methodologies, coupled with a passion for exploring new technologies. You are a polyglot by design.
- You’re comfortable managing multiple streams of work, setting long-term goals and aligning them with the company’s strategic objectives.
- You genuinely care about the well-being and professional growth of your team members, fostering an environment where they can thrive.
- You excel at communicating complex ideas clearly, whether to engineers, stakeholders or senior leadership.
- You believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and you’re committed to building a workplace where everyone can have psychological safety and be their authentic selves.

Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are, how you think and approach things, than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can’t say ‘yes’ to all of the above, but are smart, self-motivated and passionate about delivering a great product to market then get in touch.
- Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or disability_