ACURO ASSOCIATES LTD
Director of Software Engineering
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Director of Software Engineering
Remote based in the UKI with occasional travel
Overview
A senior leadership role owning end-to-end engineering delivery, and commercial outcomes for a UK and global healthcare software portfolio. You will drive product growth, lead global platform convergence, and embed AI as a core productivity and differentiation capability.
This role will be overseeing software engineering delivery for well established, market leading products at a point where customer led requirements will drive future development effort. You will also be leveraging AI across the software engineering organisation. A great time to join. This will suit someone who has previously owned and can drive strategic decision making across a Software Engineering organisation.
Genuine growth potential
This role is UK focussed initially, and has genuine growth potential to include a global product ownership.
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Key Responsibilities for the Director of Software Engineering:
- Own Software Engineering end to end: architecture, delivery, and lifecycle for UK products
- Drive growth through differentiated capabilities, faster time to value, and commercial execution
- Deliver high-quality, mission-critical, regulated clinical software with clear accountability for outcomes
- Lead AI-first transformation across platforms, and engineering practices, improving velocity, quality, and cost to serve
- Partner with Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Services, and Support to accelerate go-to-market, implementations, renewals, and expansion
- Lead globally distributed teams with strong execution discipline and outcome-based accountability - headcount of 65 across UK and India
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Skills & Experience for the Director of Software Engineering:
- Proven senior leadership ownership of Software Engineering covering workforce transformation, AI strategy & governance and global scale delivery
- Strong commercial mindset with a track record of delivering growth in enterprise software
- Experience delivering large-scale, regulated or mission-critical platforms
- Demonstrated success leading AI-enabled or technology-led transformation
- Strong cross-functional influence and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience leading global, multi-time-zone teams, 70+ headcount
- Knowledge of regulated software environments such as healthcare desirable
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar (or equivalent experience)
- OK with remote based role and occasional travel to company offices
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